"The Turkish 1908-1913 Auto-Machine Gun Carrier." Topic
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| Tango01 | 02 Jul 2015 12:12 p.m. PST |
"The Ottoman Army had, prior to WW1 a small four-vechicle squadron of the French Hotchkiss Company produced machine-gun armed, un-armoured cars, called the ‘1909 Automitrailleuse' (which translates into ‘self-gun car'). This vehicle was a civilian touring car, converted with the rear sedan seat removed and replaced with a platform to mount a machine-gun equipped with an armoured plate shield. This platform was surrounded by a bulwark (which acted as a barrier to people climbing-up). Neither this, nor the rest of the vehicle had any armoured protection…" link link link Main page
link Any model of this one in 25/28mm? Amicalement
Armand |
 ColCampbell  | 02 Jul 2015 3:00 p.m. PST |
This is an interesting vehicle. I've never seen a model of one but it looks like something that could be bashed together fairly easily from a Matchbox Vehicles of Yester Year touring car. Jim |
 Bobgnar | 02 Jul 2015 9:54 p.m. PST |
Ditto to Jim, Nice find Armand |
| Tango01 | 03 Jul 2015 10:46 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
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rebases some old soldiers.
