Is this a field replacement for a destroyed body, perhaps on a DUKW or such like?
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DAF Trado artillery tractor....
So was it bought as a Chevy commercial vehicle then converted to a trado chassis and artillery tractor body by DAF?
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Indeed: Trado (from Van der Trappen and Van Doorne, the surnames of the designers) wasn’t a vehicle but a rear suspension system that could be added to many four-wheeled vehicles with rear-wheel drive to make them six-wheeled:
This also necessitated/allowed a rebuilt rear body, of course.
The post-war DAF military trucks, lorries and APCs also used a variation on this system to give them H-drive to most or all wheels.
This also necessitated/allowed a rebuilt rear body, of course.
The post-war DAF military trucks, lorries and APCs also used a variation on this system to give them H-drive to most or all wheels.
That was difficult.....got there in the end though....
So what is this one....
So what is this one....
Correct Lee. Only two ever made in 1905, turned down by both German and Austrian armies.
You’re up then....
You’re up then....
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I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that one before, but it would help if I could place it …
Japanese Type 2 amphibious armoured car (half-track, really). It drove in one direction on land and in the other in the water.
Japanese Type 2 amphibious armoured car (half-track, really). It drove in one direction on land and in the other in the water.
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Are you looking for the name Sumida Amphibious Armored Car or AMP that Wikipedia calls this vehicle? I called it the Type 2 because that’s the name the Encyclopedia of Armoured Cars and Half-tracks by Duncan Crow and Robert J. Icks uses for it 
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I think it's the prototype AMP amphibious halftrack developed i 1931 by Ishikawajima.
Jon.
Jon.
Are you looking for the name Sumida Amphibious Armored Car or AMP that Wikipedia calls this vehicle? I called it the Type 2 because that’s the name the Encyclopedia of Armoured Cars and Half-tracks by Duncan Crow and Robert J. Icks uses for it
That's it Jakko! I didn't have anything showing it was a type 2!?
Built by Ishikawajima which is now owned by Isuzu
Over to you
Sorry Jon pipped at the post
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I had a hard time finding it under that name too, until I left off “Type 2” and only searched for “Japanese amphibious armoured car” or somesuch term — that got me to the Wikipedia page that also has the same photo you did, and the alternative name. My source dates from the early 1970s, so either more research has been done since then and a more correct name turned up, or whoever wrote that part of the Wikipedia page had a different source that didn’t know about the Type 2 designation, I suppose.
The following isn’t a WH40K vehicle but a real one. Which one?
Apologies for the small size, but I couldn’t find a bigger version of the photo.
