1/30/2024 0 Comments Modern day sherman tanks![]() ![]() I asked William for more info on the Sherman Fives my father wrote about in his poem: Wouldn’t we all like to do this to a taxi some days? Your tank also seems to have a no-standard engine hull conversion. The British could only make the 17 pdr fit into a T23 turret, which was the biggest turret available by installing it upside down. 30 Browning in the hull was removed (welded close with plate) as it had to make space for the radios which were relocated from the turret as the 17 pdr took up all the space in the turret. Interesting to see that it still has the traveling lock for the 17 Pdr on the front hull. It has a M4-1B 105mm Howitzer turret, the hull is that of a Sherman Firefly 1C Hybrid which is quite unique in the sense that it is the combination of a cast and welded hull. Your Sherman seems to be a postwar modification, this happened quite a lot when the UDF started to run out of spares for the Sherman tanks. Apparently, it’s not as simple as that, according to William Marshall, who knows his Military Vehicles well! All along we’ve been referring to the Sherman in the Sandstone Heritage Trust collection simply as a 'Sherman Mk4'. ![]()
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