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From: Damon Gentile <damonfg@yahoo.com>
To: MV <mil-veh@skylee.com>
Date: Sunday, December 12, 1999 5:34 PM
>What's a Saracen ? -Damon
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Carrier, Armoured, Personnel, 6x6, 'Saracen', FV603 (Alvis) RR B80 Mk. 3A
8-cyl., 160 bhp, semi-auto. 5F5R, wb 10'10", 15'11" x 8'3" x 8'0", 22,400 lb
(laden). Mechanically similar to 'Saracen' [sic. he probably meant to say
Saladin] except engine at front. Crew: 12 From 1952 (prototype: 1950) FV604
was ACV version.
Ref. p. 217 The Observer's Military Vehicles Directory From 1945 by Bart H.
Vanderveen.
If you don't understand any of the above abbreviations, you may contact me
offline at colin@pacdat.net.
Colin Macgregor Stevens
MVPA Member 954 (since 1977)
& member B Coy 1 Canadian Parachute Battalion (Living History)
Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada
E-mail: colin@pacdat.net
Personal web site: http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net
1944 Willys MB
1942 BSA airborne bicycles (2)
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