I assembled these dumpers during my apprenticeship in the 1960's..They were made at the Liner Concrete Machinery Co in Gateshead in the North East of England. They also made a model with a Petter diesel. I hope this is some help.
A publican in Reefton NZ in the 1960s had one of these for collecting riverbank rocks to polish and sell. As a kid I was in awe that you could have your own V8 tank. It wasn't as pretty as this one though!
Not a very good driver, but typical of a British soldier, is all one can say, a whole field of grass and he has to kill a sapling. Hope he paid for its replacement.
Cheap, reliable, versatile. You would do well to educate yourself and read some books written by historians and veterans that actually used them to understand how useful these little machines were.
Most impractical tracked machine ive ever seen, and i feel bad for that driver, almost squeezed between to metal sides n a steering stuck on chest. This is smthng u will get from a pissed off designer after an year of paycuts due to ongoing war
Memories of flying round site on a death trap winget dumper with king pins as baggy as a clowns pocket, no f's given, my excuse was I was 16... Nice vid, good to see you having fun.
Used to buy these out of Toronto Canada for $560.00 each in Very Good condition and bring them across the Ambasadore Bridge in Detroit Duty free. We have 47 of them in one Mechanized Militia unit along with many other armored vehicles. Bought many of the Ferret MK II's at Knob Creek and from other sources. The M-114 is another good pocket recon vehicle we collected cheap and operate in good numbers. Buy more ammo. Mark Koernke www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com
this is probably the most unsafe BMP of WW2 the crew is literally exposed to enemy gunfire, the British army was such a cheap ass building this grotesque tin can, and send people on a mission with it, fuckin Hell
This is a nice little ATF tracked vehicle. It was used to carry the Bren MG and crew and it could do other light duties as well. The only improvement that I can see is the provision for an even wider track, as this produces even less ground pressure by distributing the vehicle's weight over a wider track surface (ala the Weasel US light tracked vehicle).
I did WWII reenacting and we had a guy who owned a few of these. Very nimble we used it to pull a 37mm AT gun. If you happen to be over 5'9" however you are in for an uncomfortable ride.
My father drove one in Australian Army service in WW2. He said it must have been designed by a committee of midgets. He was 5'8". He was a fairly heavy muscly guy - was a farm laborer and railway track labourer in civilian life.
