Apart from the Scammell Pioneer wrecker what could be used by the REME/RE to lift the Chrysler Multibank engine out of an M4A4



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Hi Pat,

I would think a Sherman ARV Mk I or an Sherman M32BI would do

Could be wrong though. We are having similat thoughts lol, lol. Mine are still in the box though.

Mind you I would think a passing Churchill or Cromwell ARV would do just as well,

Cheers

Al

Thanks Alan Did the British Army use the Sherman M32BI ?

Hi Pat,

Yes, the M32BI was delivereed in small numbers.

Just having a read of British Tanks in Normandy and the Sherman AVR Mk I had a fairly frail boom that could only be used for lifting engines and final drives. It had a lifting capacity of 3360kg and was used to lift major assemblies such as power trains and engines so it would fit the bill. It couldn't recover tanks, the boom being too weak,

Resicast have a neat conversion for the Tasca Firefly lol, lol.

Re the M32BI I'll look up a post I ran some time back that contains a lot of info about it, came in later in the war though, and not many were delivered.

Get back to you.

Al

Hi Pat,

Was looking back through my previous posts as I have a great one on the M32BI but the list ends after page 18??????

Any thoguths? I hope I can find it again!!!!

Cheers

Al

Hi Pat,

I would think either a Ward La France or Diamond T wrecker. Engine lifts would be done by second line REME units, not by the front line REME units.

cheers
David

Just so. (although, to be fair, in a pich they'd use what was available, so it's more than possible.)

Any one of the heavy or medium wreckers would do the job. A CMP C60 wrecker would work as well. There were a number of British wreckers that could be used, although I'm not up on my Brit softskins.

Paul

Hi Pat,

here's the link. See Al's post at the end

http://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/82267#683239

Cheers

Al

Thanks Guys, very useful info, but judging from the price of the resin kits I'll have to wait for a release in plastic. I'm toying with the idea of making it an M4A4 in the Far East and using an Indian Elephant and an improvised hoist

Hi Pat,

Will that be the Mk I elephant with the big ears or the Mk II elephant with the small ears. Did Indian elephants serve in the far east or were they Malayan elephants. Didn't they have a shorter 75mm length trunks??? . You might need to roughen up the side armour on the Mk Is they had tough armour and did they have the Mk I long throwing tusks or Mk II shorter stabbing tusks. You'd need to check the foot pad width as well

Good idea though.

happy modelling

AL