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THE UK’S LEADING MILITARY VEHICLE MAGAZINE
ISSUE 188
JANUARY 2017
Historic StuG III
Ausf D restored on
a shoestring
RARITY
RESCUED
incorporating
Plastic
Pl a s t i c
l
protection
Rasputitsa!
SAS LAND ROVERS
MEDIUM MK II
ESARCO’S ATVs
01
£4.50
How Soviet mud
halted the Germans
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OPENING SHOT!
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Chris Till’s M24 Chafee
Contents
January 2017
NUMBER 188
Page
22 – Jon Phillips
proves that you really
can restore a historic
military treasure on
a shoestring
FRONT
COVER
06
REVIEW
news and reviews from the military-
The latest
vehicle world.
12
VINTAGE DAYS
from the French ’40s
David Garden reports
spectacular.
4
42
ESARCO
John Norris looks at the Andover firm’s
range of cross country military offerings from
the 1980s.
COVER STORY
17
MEDIUM MARK II
COVER STORY
Tank expert David Fletcher profiles the marque.
4
48
PLASTIC SURGERY
COVER STORY
The Army’s use of plastic protection on
vehicles, explained by Ian Young.
22
STUG III AUSF D
COVER STORY
5
Out and
TRUCKS
CMV.
54
TANKS,
about with
& FIREPOWER SHOW
YORKSHIRE
EXPERIENCE
59
It’s just getting
WARTIME
better.
better and
The story of Jon Phillips’s incredible budget
conscious restoration.
6
SHOWTIME
69
A round-up of forthcoming military events
and fairs.
COMING NEXT
70
Find out what’s in store in next month’s issue.
NEWS
72
MARKET
has the latest military-vehicle
Nigel Hay
28
34
RASPUTITSA
movers and shakers.
How Russian mud helped slow the German
military invasion.
CAMBODIAN MUSEUM
Doug Goodman dropped in on a hidden
military treasure trove.
COVER STORY
COVER STORY
PRICES
74
MV
listing of current vehicle values.
Our
82
ECHOES OF WAR
Comet.
The post-war Leyland
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36
SAS LAND ROVERS
James Taylor attempts to separate the fact
from the fiction.
C
CLASSIC MILITARY VEHICLE
January 2017
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VEHICLE
3
M24 CHAFFEE
OPE N I NG
Chris Till’s never
afraid to put his Chaffee through its
paces. The M24 only saw
service during
the closing years of WW2 but
enjoyed a successful post-war career
in Korea
fighting off T-34s, as well as proving
useful in Algeria and during the first
Indochina
conflict. Unbelievably, some up-gunned and modernised examples are
still in service in countries such as Uruguay.
SHOT
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