Name that Vehicle

Levien, that is not fair. You haven't answered previous question as asked by sol...

 

I know, I know, but you vehicle specialists know so much. When you see the back of a screw you know from what it is. I will never be able to place my question.

Levien.

 

I'm really running out of ideas.

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Looks like a Soviet Gaz 67 in new ownership, Sol.

CS

WWII Russian GAZ Jeep page

 

Landsverk 180/181 armoured car

 

Looks like a Soviet Gaz 67 in new ownership, Sol.

CS

WWII Russian GAZ Jeep page

Well number is wrong (it's actually Gaz-64) but it's good enough for me. Well done. Your turn.

 

Well number is wrong (it's actually Gaz-64) but it's good enough for me. Well done. Your turn.
Thank you Sol, but I still think it is your turn as I did not get it quite right. Would you like you like to post another photo?

CS

 

Just like I said earlier, I'm really out of ideas. So you go Captain.

GAZ-64/67/67B/M1

 

OK, here we go - what's the vehicle in the foreground?

CS

 

Komsomolyets Artillery Transporter? Or maybe you ask for some other vehicle from the picture

 

Landsverk 180/181 armoured car


You guys really know anything!!
Chapeau!

Levien.

 

Levien, when it comes to Landsverks....it helps living in Ireland....!

 

Levien, when it comes to Landsverks....it helps living in Ireland....!

Why is that? I thought those things were Swedish?

Levien.

 

Because they formed the basis of the Irish Defence Force's armoured "strength for most of "The Emergency" (known to those abroad as WWII!)....

Timoney Armoured Vehicles

And the Irish liked them SO much - they decided to copy them!!!

Irish Built Armoured Vehicles

 

Dutch army had a few at the outbreak of WW2.

Did I read it well that these machines were used by the Irish into the 70's????
Must have been wonderful machines.

Levien.

 

LOL...nah, the Irish were skinflints! They primped and pampered them and the Leylands for decades...for they particularly suited the Irish Army's post-war role - as more of a Neutrality Watch and International peacekeeper - more than the handful of Churchills and Comets they later got

The Irish Defence Forces tend not to buy kit until it breaks down and can't be repaired again/sinks underneath them! The concept of "measured lifetime in flying hours" on modern aircraft came as somewhat of a culture shock to the Irish Air Corps....! prior to that their ideas on extending the life of expensive WWII era-and-before aircraft were of the baling twine and pianowire variety...very similar to how the RAF kept its WWI aircraft at the furthest reaches of the Empire going for years between the wars!

 

Well, anyway that policy must have saved a lot of money on defence.

Levien.

 

that policy must have saved a lot of money on defence


IIRC during the ..."Emergency"...Frank Aiken, Eamon DeValera's right-hand man, was visiting Washington and was asked how high was the state of defences in Neutral Ireland. His reply was something along the lines of...

"Oh we don't keep defences too high or else de horses can't jump over dem...."

He refused to ever confirm if he was being serious or not...

 

Drifting a bit off topic, but it is an interesting matter. Have just been reading the history of the Irish Defence Force. Poor devils.

Perhaps something for a new thread: Armed forces of the neutral countries during WW2.

Levien.

 

Komsomolyets Artillery Transporter? Or maybe you ask for some other vehicle from the picture



Absolutely correct, sir! A nice photograph, I thought.

CS

 

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