"Honey tank" - Turret-less or otherwise.

Ron,

once again thank you for those amazing stories, although some of them are quite sad it does make my heart glad when I see you've replied to one of my posts!


Pete

 

This picture popped up on a modelling forum. "Curse of Scotland" of the 7th Hussars, in Burma. I believe the mesh was to protect against grenades although I'm not sure.

 

Chris

Thanks for that...... never seen that before and certainly never saw any similar thing in my old unit.

Best regards

Ron

 

Yesterday I saw a snippet on TV which showed a number (3 or 4 in shot) of turretless Stuarts fording a river in Italy. All had passengers. It was out of context to the programme and commentary (no surprise there!) it could bear a look through some archives.

 

I am just looking through the war diary of 209 (Worcs Yeo) Anti-Tank Battery, and in January 1945 they had 7 Stuarts. I imagine them being used as turretless runners or OPs.

 

Hi Ron,

Over the Christmas break I found some additional turretless Honey pictures showing the prototype vehicle with the canopy. I think I posted them somewhere else in the forum but I can't for the life of me remember where. Hope you see these! And just maybe they match your old vehicle.

Cheers,
Chris

 

That canopy and, especially the 'square' one posted by Von Poop much earlier in this thread reminds me very much of the tilt for a Kublewagen or Schwimmer. Wonder if that's were they drew their inspiration from when salvaging German Veh's?

 

Negative on that. The Henhouse was designed to prevent vermin hitching a ride on HM petrol

 

"Calamity Jan got the tank from Madman Otto’s Used Tank Lot. Only in Gotham City would there be a used tank lot."

Holy Rewatch Batman! “The Great Escape” / “The Great Train Robbery”

 

Great photo's Chris. If possible did you manage to find/upload the interior images you mentioned in your other post. Cheers

 

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the reminder! These are all grouped with the canopy picture so I think they are all of the same Stuart though I am doing this somewhat in haste. I think the MG is the same; you just can't really see what the mount is like in the other photos.

These should all be clickable to see at full size.

Cheers,
Chris

 

Thank you Chris. Would it be okay for me to use/share these.

 

Sure thing! They are not very good photos of what is on those old printed pages. A scan would be a bit better...

I'd be interested to know your interest here. Scale modeling?

 

Cheers Chris. Yes I'm trying to help out a chap on another forum that I'm on. He is converting a 1/35th scale Honey into a recce version but could not find any interior images to help in the scratch build of the inside.

 

Catalogued by LAC as M-10 75 mm tank but looks like a brace of turret-less M5s to me.

 

Yes I reckon that front one is a M5 too.

 

Infanterie Panzerkampfwagen Mk III 749 (e) or Leichter Panzerkampfwagen M5 A1 (a)

the sons of albion delivered 56 Stuart to Tito in 1943 were they formed the 1st tank brigade
two were converted with German 7.5cm pak and four with Flakvierling


this is my personal favourite
Tank Girl (1995)

 

US T-28 TD Proto

weird SPAAG Proto

I really don´t know...

"Peking duck"


and one "otherwise": in Hungarian service