Foden ex-army logistics truck
Foden with Armoured personnel charier and a light truck on board
Cletrac military crawler
Military vehicles are built by many of the main manufactures, as specialist versions of there standard product line. Other manufacturers build specialist vehicles that are custom designed for special applications.
Preservation[]
There is a large group of preservationist of vehicles who collect military vehicles. A lot of the Steam Rallies and Historic Vehicle Rallies have sections with military vehicles on display.
Military vehicles at UK rallies[]
- Tank Transporters - Scammell, Diamond T, Oshkosh, & Unipower
- Recovery Vehicles - Alvis & Vickers
- Tanks - Alvis, Foster, Newton Chambers & Co., & Vickers
- Armoured Personnel Carriers - Alvis, GKN
- Trucks - Bedford, Foden, Ford Trucks, GM, Scammell, Thornycroft
- Jeeps & Land Rovers etc by Land Rover, Austin, GM, Hummer
- Self-Propelled Guns - Alvis
- Command and Radio vans on various makes of light truck chassis
- Enginering plant:-
- Excavators by JCB, Liebherr
- Loading Shovels by Aveling-Barford, Case, Fiat-Allis, JCB, Muir-Hill
- Military crawler tractors by Allis-Chalmers, Caterpillar, Cletrac, & Fiat-Allis
- Mobile Cranes by Coles Cranes, Jones Cranes, Smiths
- Telescopic Handlers by JCB
- various specialist kit like Bridging tanks and Minefield clearance machines.
Shows with Military Vehicles[]
A Land Rover in Military version and a converted Military look Range Rover at a classic vehicle show
- Belvoir Castle show
- Donington Park Commercial Vehicle show
- Driffield Steam and Vintage Rally
- Great Dorset Steam Fair
- Harewood House Steam Rally
- Holcot Steam Rally
- Kettering Vintage Rally & Steam Fair
- Lincolnshire Steam and Vintage Rally
- Llandudno Transport Festival
- Rushden Cavalcade
- Sandbach Transport Festival
- Stoke Goldington Steam Rally
- Woolpit Steam Rally
Manufacturers[]
Series I Land Rover of 1956 in Desert group paint scheme at the Woolpit Steam rally 2009
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A French built Hotchkiss M201 and an American Willys MB ' Jeep' both owned by E. Noy and on display at the Woolpit Steam rally 2009
Firms that make or have built Military vehicles;
- Alvis
- Bedford
- Caterpillar
- Cletrac
- Diamond Reo
- Foden
- Foster
- Hotchkiss of France
- JCB
- Jeep
- Land Rover
- Scammell
- Steyr - Pinzgoure and Hafliger
- Thornycroft
- Willys
See also[]
- List of U.K. military vehicles by F number
- List of UK Military vehicles by FV number
- List of UK modern armoured fighting vehicles
- List of U.S. military vehicles by model number
- Shows and Meets
- Steam fairs
- Clubs Listing
- Museums List
Links[]
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