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Walkaround of T-34-76, by plant 174 (end production)
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject: Walkaround of T-34-76, by plant 174 (end production)
Some my old photos from Sholohovo, "T-34 tank history" museum. http://pblinov.narod.ru/shol2T34/index.html

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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Walkaround of T-34-76, by plant 174 (end production)
Hello Pavel, do you know if this tank was repainted since then? Pierre-Olivier _________________ soldat_ryan @ hotmail.com Looking for photos of Sherman manufacturer's plates

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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:39 pm
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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

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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Walkaround of T-34-76, by plant 174 (end production)
P-O, Can you provide a pic of the SN? I'd like to know where to find them on T-34s... Neil

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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject: Re: Walkaround of T-34-76, by plant 174 (end production)
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 _________________ soldat_ryan @ hotmail.com Looking for photos of Sherman manufacturer's plates

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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject: Re: Walkaround of T-34-76, by plant 174 (end production)
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

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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:53 pm
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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.

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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject: Re: Walkaround of T-34-76, by plant 174 (end production)
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

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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: Re: Walkaround of T-34-76, by plant 174 (end production)
this is how the SN looks like on the T-34/85 I mentioned above, on the front armour plate : P-O _________________ soldat_ryan @ hotmail.com Looking for photos of Sherman manufacturer's plates

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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: Walkaround of T-34-76, by plant 174 (end production)
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

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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:03 am Post subject: Re: Walkaround of T-34-76, by plant 174 (end production)
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 _________________ soldat_ryan @ hotmail.com Looking for photos of Sherman manufacturer's plates

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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject: Re: Walkaround of T-34-76, by plant 174 (end production)
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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