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MarkHolloway · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:31 pm Post subject: Designation?

What would this be designated as?

www.flickr.com/photos/...401474995/

the_shadock · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: Designation?

I think it's a Stuart V Recce, which is the British designation.

Wikipedia says :
"Stuart Recce : Reconnaissance vehicle based on turretless Stuart."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_Stuart#UK_variants

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Michel_Krauss · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:13 pm Post subject: Re: Designation?

because of the raised engine cover, would this not be an M5 based vehicle making this a Stuart VI Recce Confused

I try to improve my knowledge about the US light tanks, so correct me if I'm wrong Mr. Green

Michel

MarkHolloway · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:30 pm Post subject: Re: Designation?

I'd never seen one before Sad

Roy_A_Lingle · Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:35 am Post subject: Re: Designation?

Hi Folks!

The M3A3 was a Stuart V, hull looks some what like a M5 from the front.

The M5 & M5A1 was a Stuart VI

"because of the raised engine cover," Michel nail it!

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Kurt_Laughlin · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 577

It's based on an M5A1 tank and in American markings, so it wouldn't be a "Stuart" at all! Smile

This looks to be a mock-up of a prototype US recon vehicle that was never fielded. The T-number escapes me.

KL

Vivman · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 12, 2006 Posts: 34

A Full Tracked Reconnaissance Vehicle, T8E1, perhaps?

tankbarrell · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 56

It is nothing as elaborate! It was a British Army Stuart VI converted post war in to a 17 pdr gun tower. I put a new roof in for the previous owner and the vehicle restoration was completed by the current owner, in the drivers seat in the picture, as a recce vehicle but not based on anything in particular.

Vivman · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 12, 2006 Posts: 34

- tankbarrell

It is nothing as elaborate! It was a British Army Stuart VI converted post war in to a 17 pdr gun tower. I put a new roof in for the previous owner and the vehicle restoration was completed by the current owner, in the drivers seat in the picture, as a recce vehicle but not based on anything in particular.

serendipitously, I think you made a T8E1. Smile

Hanno_Spoelstra · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jun 04, 2006 Posts: 185

It is nothing more and nothing less than a turretless M5A1 Light Tank.

See www.mapleleafup.org/fo...php?t=1470 for some pictures of a Stuart VI Recce

And see replay.waybackmachine....recce.html for a surviving example

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