Re: [MV] Moving swiftly back to military vehicles

From: Nigel Hay (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Mon Jul 05 2004 - 01:07:47 PDT


I have seen the one in the Quanitico museum just across the fields from
VMMV. One turned up at Beltring a few years ago, I think its now in the USA.
NH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Moving swiftly back to military vehicles

At 9:23 AM +0200 7/5/04, Nigel Hay wrote:
>A pretty rare vehicle has just been advertised on www.milweb.net in the
>Armour and tracked section - an LTV4 - particularly rare in Europe, made
>me
>think -I am curious to know how many exist in private hands these days -
>maybe 6 or so ?
>What was the post war Civvy use for these? Or were they just broken up
for
>the engines?

Well, for any kind of civil engineering they're
excellent for shallow tide water work in
surf-zones or swampy terrain just like the
Landing craft, LSTs and DUKWs are.

VMMV in Virginia
(http://tanks2go.com/United_States/us.htm) has
one as well. Running even!

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Ryan Gill              rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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