armored car: Staghound Armored Car

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Staghound Armored Car

staghound armored car

John Hodges, who has died aged 93 In January 1945 the regiment returned to Syria and Palestine, where it was equipped with Staghound armoured cars for internal security patrols. Based at Sarafand, near Tel Aviv, one of Hodges’s duties, using a The parade features vintage cars, from Model Ts to Mustangs and Mac trucks. There are tractors from the Tiny Bristol Crawlers right up to "Pete's Pride" - a giant Second World War Staghound and heavy, armoured car. Converted by Peter Walker after the Bruce McLaren, Jack Brabham and Lex Davison were all there with their light and nimble rear- engined Formula One cars. Then there was the TS Special, powered by a front-mounted 4.7-litre GMC engine from a World War II-era Staghound armoured personnel carrier. One of them, Manitoba Dragoons Maj. Norman Keith, recalled racing behind enemy lines in a 14-ton Staghound armoured car. His appetite for heavy General Motors products ran until last year when, aged 102, he returned the last of his many Cadillacs. I was to be one of the drivers for the five Staghound armoured cars, which formed Monty’s bodyguard. The company was formed from various regiments, our CO was a very nice Lancashire chap. “One day I went down to the railway station to collect my The Opposing Front version 1.3 of NHCmod. It contains several new units: Staghound Armoured Car, 6 pounder AT gun, Firefly Ace, Pershing Ace, 76 mm AT gun, Schwimmwagen, Bunker with 88mm Pak 43, and Nashorn .

My first nine weeks 'back home' in the Regiment, were spent learning to drive and operate the armoured cars that the Regiment was equipped by Sue Russell of the BBC on behalf of Major Matthew Guymer MBE and has been added to the site with his permission. Another vehicle included in the collection is a Staghound armoured car – which came all the way from Australia – which the pair are currently restoring. The four wheel drive Staghound, which was built in 1942, was used by British and Commonwealth .

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