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Cannot find any mention of the 16-17 May Elkhart,IN Airport Rally. This is a WW2 reenactment and Armed Forces Memorial. I will be representing US WW1 with 3-1917 Machine Gun carts. 'Kinda late with the info...but thought someone else would have mentioned it as there will be at least 2-tanks and...

Thought this item did not exist,as no one had ever seen one before. There is no documentation that there was a separate brass tag for the Spare Gun cart. It was assumed that the spare gun cart was simply tagged as a gun cart. Even the experts had never heard of this tag before...until it...

In honor of the 70th anniversery of the 1944 D-Day at Normandy,France and the 100th anniversery of the start of WW1,our local Military Museum has devoted the entire floor space to these two great events. I was asked to present my 3-1917 Machine Gun Carts for this display,as well as many pieces...

Thought about posting to my original thread on the 1917 carts...but this is such an historic find that I believe it deserves it's own thread. Recovered 3-original 1917 carts from Hernando,MS area last week...1400 mi. round trip. 2-carts in the ORIGINAL SHIPPING CRATES,as they left the...

Can anyone advise what may have been the first 'gun-truck'...? I'm thinking about the WW2 M16 half track with the quad mount (M45) for 4-.50 BMG's. However,I found an original...what I believe to be the first of it's type....wood .50 BMG ammo box that has an opening in the front to feed the...

Have not seen anything about the IN MVPA State meet at Ropkey's Armor Museum in Crawfordsville,IN 22-23 Sep. Hope to be there with several WW1 Machine gun carts that have been 'restored' as best I can with as much original period equipment as I could find. Contact info online at Ropkey's site...

Faced with a difficult decision and turning to cooler heads for direction. My 1973 M35 Kaiser duce has a rear head gasket leak. 30 yrs. ago I'd have jumped right in to repair it and spend night and day to do so. Well....my duce sits in front of my ammo shop in South Bend...sort of a land mark. I...

Display of carts at MVPA section. Thanks to Greg for great work at getting everything together.

Finally...the carts are ready for their first showing. It is fitting that they will be displayed at the Indianapolis 500 Race Track during the Armed Forces Day event this week end ...19-20 May. The Indiana National Guard,I believe, wants to present, as best they can,the history of how our...

The Indiana MVPA has asked for members to help with displays of their equipment and items at the Indy 500 Race Track for the Armed Forces Day Memorial that the Indiana National Guard is helping to put together. This will be about 10-days before the race...19-20 May. Contact person is...Greg...

Not very astute when it comes to wood spoke wheels almost 100 yrs. old. These are for the 1917 Machine gun carts. They are 16-oak spoke,8-felloe,iron tire 37- 1/2" wheels made by International Harvester. Especially looking for the quick disconnect hubs. Any assistance is appreciated...(800)...

Winter project has taken longer than planned,but paint does not cover well in -10 degree cold....LOL. Anyway,these pic's are for those of us who like the old wood convayence's of days gone by. I've learned a lot about WW1 and the guy's who manned the 1917 Browning water cooled guns. This is a...

We honored a 93 year old WW2 vet and survivor of the Battle of the Bulge on Memorial Day. He was part of the 32nd Recon Bat. at Bastone. His unit had Chaffee and Sturat tanks...but used half tracks for recon. Someone heard they had an M16 in his unit,so I was asked to bring my M16 for the...

Wrote about the this as a 'road-trip-from-h***',so decided to post pic's. Not really 'auxillary equipment' and not a 'gun truck'...but was the vehicle for moving the 1917 Browning water-cooled machine gun around the battle-field during WW1 and thru the 30's. By the start of WW2 the 'gun cart'...

Been planning a road trip to VA to pick up an original WW1 wood gun cart purchased by auction....about 750 mi. from home. Wanted to pick up a Bridgeport mill,several M3 tripods, 1K of .50 BMG ammo and a duce engine from Gimpy Rob along the way in OH. Gimpy was able to get engine delivered...

Just hit the door today. Did not realize how big and heavy this thing is...!!! Think I can use this for the FV432 and the price was under $60.00. Believe it was for the heavier tanks and such....WW2 & Korea...? Somebody check out the numbers...?

Reluctently,after snooping around and asking about this,I must report that the top periscope on my FV432 APC was stolen during the MVPA Ropkey Museum meet in Sep. Someone unscrewed 3 of the 4 cap screws and then either broke the corner off the scope or jimmied it out,as the front left cap screw...

Need some help to ID an older Homelite Corp. gas generator(1952 contract) mod.#20.5D28-23A. Has a brass plate with pertinent info and the SNL NO. 17-4770.210-400 manual listed. What was this generator used for...? It is listed as a .5KW DC model and is mounted on a spring-loaded plate and weighs...

Looked thru previous list for a suitable lo-boy flat bed 12-ton trailer for my half track...cannot find anything that would do. Can anyone point out which trailer was used to haul the half tracks around in WW2...? Or something similar in use today...? The M16 White half track Weapons Carrier was...

Just got back from WI road trip...and look what followed me home...LOL. Wife only saw it in the darkness...still does not realize what I got. Only problem....found out the exhaust manifold is cracked...in (2) places. And that is after I put a new 8-D battery in it and started it up...runs...