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Somebody posted this on one of my other forums - probably pre-WW1 though - asking if anybody recognises it. Anybody seen it before?

 

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It looks like one of the New York National Guard's Mack armoured cars, 1916.

Beg pardon; two of.




-- Edited by James H on Sunday 15th of January 2012 05:08:03 PM

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TX James!

So with a bit of Google-Fu I turned up this....

http://www.g503.com/forums//viewtopic.php?f=82&t=178642

Looks like the badger (or badgers) to me!

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Those are the rascals. Not White, though, AFAIK.



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I found some more stuff about them online, now my curiosity is piqued

This one about them buying the cars

This image in colour..

And this a general one about the unit.

Looking at the colour image that plate looks pretty thin, I'm guessing it wouldn't have offered a lot of protection against a machine gun round of the period?

Now does anybody make that as a kit I wonder...



-- Edited by andiS on Sunday 15th of January 2012 07:59:58 PM

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andiS wrote:

I found some more stuff about them online, now my curiosity is piqued

This one about them buying the cars

This image in colour..

And this a general one about the unit.

Looking at the colour image that plate looks pretty thin...

In your first link (the NY Times article) it states the armour is 'two-tenths of an inch thick', so only around 5mm.



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