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Events listings, pages of classifieds and a comprehensive vehicle price guide
ISSUE 167
APRIL 2015
£4.30
Now
incorporating
GMC bolster truck
in rare
private ownership
PRIVATES ON PARADE
Russia’s latest
APC revealed
Keeping tanks a secret
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Porsche’s innovation in early
German designs
MARMON-HERRINGTON TANKS
Militaria show report
Alfa Romeo Matta profiled
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Contents
April 2015
NUMBER 167
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Page 24, Scott Smith
meets the owner of a rare
GMC bolster truck.
FRONT COVER
We kick off with a T26E3 Pershing, belonging to
the Brussels Tank Museum.
REVIEW
OPENING SHOT!
A round-up of current military-vehicle news,
views and correspondence.
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
COVER STORY
We meet the owner who bought and restored a
Carrier, just like the one his grandfather drove
during WW2!
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CRAZY HORSE
James Taylor looks at an Italian Jeep substitute.
COVER STORY
19
THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME
David Fletcher looks at the Marmon-Herrington
tanks.
COVER STORY
PLANT
48
POST-WAR
uncovers
LIFE
post-war duties of
Les Freathy
the
wartime plant life.
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MILITARIA 2015
We report from this year’s spectacle.
COVER STORY
COVER STORY
61
KAMAZ-63968 TAIFUN
24
IT’S A GMC THING!
Jim Kinnear looks at the new generation of mine
protected wheeled APC.
Scott Smith meets a serial GMC collector who’s
bagged himself a rare bolster truck, one of just a
handful in private ownership.
COVER STORY
30
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THE BEST FORM OF FLATTERY
Despite the rust and crying when he first saw it,
this late model Austin Gipsy provided a perfect
restoration project for its classic military vehicle
enthusiast owner.
KEEPING GERMAN TANKS A SECRET
COVER STORY
COVER STORY
COMING NEXT
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Find out what’s in store in the next issue.
SHOWTIME
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IT’S
2015 military vehicle event calendar.
The
MARKET
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THE MILITARY VEHICLE
the MV marketplace.
Latest insider news from
PRICES
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MV
very own military vehicle price guide.
Our
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ECHOES OF WAR
the people’s car.
The beginnings of
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T26E3 PERSHING
OPENING
SHOT
It has been convincingly argued that had the US Ordnance Department and
Armored Command not put all their efforts into improving and manufacturing
Shermans during WW2 but had instead pushed forward the development of
a more capable replacement, then the lives of thousands of Allied tankers
would have been spared. Despite the all too obvious shortcomings of the M4
medium tank it wasn’t until late 1944 that the T26E3 (later standardised as
the M26E3 and christened the Pershing) emerged. Of the 40 available, half
went to Fort Knox for testing while the balance were shipped to Antwerp
from where they were allotted equally to the 3rd and 9th Armored Divisions.
Although on 25 February 1945 one T26E3 was hit and temporarily disabled
by 88mm fire from a Tiger 1, the 90mm-armed Pershings soon showed that
they were more than a match for anything they were likely to encounter in
the German arsenal. Perhaps the type’s weak link was its 500bhp Ford GAF
engine which struggled to cope with a 41-ton tank, a problem solved by a
subsequent upgrade programme.
This T26E3 belongs to the Brussels Tank Museum, and the crewman on the
nearside track guard is there to alert the driver lest he inadvertently chews
up the kerb stones (or worse).
Photograph by John Blackman
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