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panzermehaniker · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Nov 02, 2007 Posts: 7

Some my old photos from Sholohovo, "T-34 tank history" museum.
http://pblinov.narod.ru/shol2T34/index.html

the_shadock

Hello Pavel,

do you know if this tank was repainted since then?

Pierre-Olivier

the_shadock

Hello again Pavel,

I visited a museum, which is located near where I live in East of France, and they have a T-34/85 in running condition. Here is the SN I read on the front hull :

B40482 52564 or B40482 525640

Maybe you could help me in finding the date when it was built?

thanks in advance

Pierre-Olivier

Neil_Baumgardner

P-O,
Can you provide a pic of the SN? I'd like to know where to find them on T-34s...

Neil

the_shadock

Neil,

I guess this is common to the vast majority of the Russian armoured vehicles : the SN is at the bottom of the front armour plate. I found a SN at this location on some WW2 and cold war Russian armoured vehicles (remember the T-72s at Saumur).

P-O

Neil_Baumgardner

Hmmm... I'll have to check the APG examples, but I believe at least one (the oldest one I think) just has a checkerboard series of numbers in each box going up from left to right. I think Bob and mine's theory was that it was stamped by the plant in question to show the date that it was built or something like that....

Neil

bsmart

I always theought the checkerboard was a log of modifications or TCTO's as we would call them in the Air Force. That would be similar to the plate found on M41 & M42 series vehicles.

I will be up at Aberdeen on Monday April 7 for the Spring Urbanna High School field trip. I will try and look at the T34/76 in the warehouse then.

I also have a tour planned for April 12. A Marine Corp League group from New Jersey is coming down.

L.Delsing · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Feb 10, 2006 Posts: 960

This is how the s/n looked on the T-34/85 in the Panzer museum in Munster, Germany. It was on the location Pierre-Olivier mentioned

regards,
Lesley

the_shadock

this is how the SN looks like on the T-34/85 I mentioned above, on the front armour plate :

P-O

L.Delsing · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Feb 10, 2006 Posts: 960

Hello Pierre-Olivier,
from what I can see on the picture I say the last digit is a ''4''. Were is this tank located?

Regards,
Lesley

the_shadock

Lesley,

this T-34/85 is located at the Abri Museum, Hatten (near Haguenau/Wissembourg, East of France). I'll add the SN to the France register anyway..

P-O

Neil_Baumgardner

Here is what is on the front glacis of the T-34/76 on public display at the Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Of course I forgot to check the two T-34/85s.... And the 76 in the warehouse... Doh!

So what is this checkerboard progression of numbers?

Neil

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