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ISSUE 168
MAY 2015
£4.30
Humber the best there is after 18-year resto
WORTH THE WAIT
Now
incorporating
Alvis Acorn
profiled
The story of the German gun tank
Gunning for it!
INDIAN
WARS
Minerva: the ‘Belgian
made’ Land
Rover
LVT-3 BUSHMASTER
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WW1 ORDNANCE REPAIR TRUCKS
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Starting with the ever popular WW2 Dodge G502
¾-ton weapons carrier.
REVIEW
OPENING SHOT!
Contents
May 2015
NUMBER 168
Page 24, Scott Smith sees
the fruit of an 18-year
Humber restoration.
FRONT COVER
A round-up of current military-vehicle news,
views and correspondence.
INDIAN WARS
COVER STORY
Assembled from a pile of bits this Indian 741B is
testament to the determination of its owner. But,
as John Blackman explains, the manufacturer
itself didn’t enjoy such a successful outcome.
44
RUNNING REPAIRS
COVER STORY
Tim Gosling looks at the specialist vehicles used
by the US Army Mobile Ordnance Repair Shops
during WW1.
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BUILT FOR THE BUSH
David Fletcher looks at the somewhat bizarre
LVT-3 Bushmaster.
PLAYING THE WAITING GAME
COVER STORY
COVER STORY
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SWEET AS A NUT
COVER STORY
John Norris cracks open the history of the Alvis
Acorn fast scout vehicle.
Scott Smith meets the owner who took a
painstaking 18 years to restore this glorious
Humber 1-ton GS truck.
COVER STORY
56
LATIN LOVELY
tells us about the restoration
Reader Peter Leslie
of a twenties Lancia armoured personnel carrier.
WITH
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OUT & ABOUT
reports
CMV
on New Zealand’s
Dave Hardway
for
CMV
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GUNNING FOR IT!
Wings Over Wairarapa show.
John G Teasdale explains the importance of the
Panzerkampfwagen I Ausführung A and B
gun tanks.
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 calandar.
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
OF WAR
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BELGIUM’S LAND ROVER
Alain Henry de Frahan looks at the ‘Belgian made’
Minerva.
COVER STORY
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DODGE WC-51
WEAPONS CARRIER
OPE N I NG
SHOT
Probably second only to the Jeep in the ‘WW2 military-vehicle to rally’ popularity stakes is Dodge’s G502
¾-ton weapons carrier, either in its without winch (WC-51) or winch equipped (WC-52) forms. By the way,
you can’t convert a WC-51 into a WC-52 by simply bolting on a chassis extension and a Braden winch; the
WC-52 had a different, longer frame.
This vehicle is, obviously, a WC-51, one of 123,541 manufactured. A couple of changes were made during
production mainly aimed at making it easier for the driver to get in and out despite the position of the spare
wheel. It isn’t visible in this photo of a particularly nice example on the beach at Weymouth in Dorset, close
to where thousands of US troops embarked for the Normandy beaches, but from August 1943 a storage
compartment on the left-hand side was deleted to give the driver a few more inches wriggle room.
Photograph by John Blackman
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