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Surviving South African Marmon-Herrington Armoured Cars Last update : 5 July 2019 Listed here are the South African Marmon-Herrington armoured cars that still exist today. “Ducati”, February 2010 - http://www.pakwheels.com/forums/road-trips-vacations/128638-military-museum-visit-6 Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk I – National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa) http://www.cometozimbabwe.com/discover/museums-and-monuments/mutare-museum/ Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk III – Mutare Museum, Mutare (Zimbabwe)

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Surviving South African Marmon-Herrington Armoured Cars Last update : 5 July 2019

Listed here are the South African Marmon-Herrington armoured cars that still exist today.

“Ducati”, February 2010 - http://www.pakwheels.com/forums/road-trips-vacations/128638-military-museum-visit-6

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk I – National Museum of Military History,

Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa)

http://www.cometozimbabwe.com/discover/museums-and-monuments/mutare-museum/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk III – Mutare Museum, Mutare (Zimbabwe)

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http://zimfieldguide.com/sites/default/files/Images/mil2.JPG

http://i56.tinypic.com/6f09rk.jpg

Four Marmon-Herrington Armrd Cars Mk III – Gweru Military Museum (Zimbabwe)

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“Ducati”, February 2010 - http://www.pakwheels.com/forums/road-trips-vacations/128638-military-museum-visit-6

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk III – National Museum of Military History,

Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa)

Charlie Hugo, 2004 – http://wildaviation.co.za/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=2700

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk III – School of Armour Museum, Tempe,

Bloemfontein (Republic of South Africa)

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Dean Wingrin - http://www.saairforce.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8504

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk III – Special Service Battalion Museum, Tempe,

Bloemfontein (Republic of South Africa)

“Austin7nut”, October 2010 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/austin7nut/5103217882/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Bovington Tank Museum (UK)

Our exhibit, originally a demonstration vehicle based here at Bovington, has been repainted in the colouful markings of the Transjordan Frontier Force (http://www.tankmuseum.org/)

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“tank102” - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tankman102001/2641865380/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV F – Bovington Tank Museum (UK)

Used by Greek Cypriot National Guard, Cyprus. Transported to U.K. by LSL Sir Tristram, from Akrotiri to Marchwood - June 1986. This is the South African armoured car based on the Canadian F60L 3-ton lorry chassis, still known as the Marmon-Herrington, although

containing none of their components. They were used by the Free Greeks during the Second World War, who passed them on to the Greek Cypriot National Guard, who used the cars into the 1980's, re-engined with 6 cylinder diesels (http://www.tankmuseum.org/)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/seanofselby/16882751908/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Fort Paull (UK)

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http://www.milweb.net/webverts/55423/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Private collection (UK)

This vehicle was being restored, but it is currently for sale on Milweb website

http://www.milweb.net/classifieds/large_image.php?ad=57218&cat=1

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV F – Private collection (UK) This vehicle is an ex-Greek one, it is currently for sale on Milweb website. According to the current owner, it is Canadian built and has

a Perkins P6 engine

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http://www.canadianalliedforces.com/index1.html

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Canadian Allied Forces Museum 1940-1945,

Groningen (Netherlands)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, March 2019

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Musée des Blindés, Saumur (France)

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ASPHM, July 2015

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – MM Park, La Wantzenau (France)

http://1blog.wp.mil.pl/pl/1_1416.html

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Polish Army Museum, Fort IX Czerniakowski,

Warsaw (Poland) This vehicle was offered for sale by RR Motor Service and ended up in Jordan (Derek Gardner). It was then acquired by the Polish

Army museum. It was exchanged with 3 other vehicles for a PT-76

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“Costas TT”, January 2006 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/26822716@N02/sets/72157605377509013/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Athens Army Park, Athens (Greece)

Κωνσταντίνου Πανιτσίδη - http://www.redstar.gr/Foto_red/Exibition/MuseumGR_Aulon.html

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Hellenic Army Armor Museum, inside the

Armor Training Center, Avlona, near Athens (Greece)

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“BIG TROLL”, 2010 - http://foto.mail.ru/mail/troll.62/2304/2466

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – War Museum, Thessaloniki (Greece)

https://www.facebook.com/243001219079210/photos/a.277913528921312.63554.243001219079210/944622488917076/?type=3

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Military Museum, Komotini (Greece)

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http://www.army.gr/unity/Textures/str_mou_didimoteixou/img.jpg

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Didymoteicho (Greece)

http://www.palisfoundation.com/index.php/us/exhibits/vehicles

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – P.A.L.I.S. Foundation, Voula (Greece)

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Photo courtesy of Raf Makis

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Private collection (Greece)

This Marmon is currenlty offered for sale in UK (Raf Makis)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212612133402394&set=pcb.1319721864827033&type=3&theater&ifg=1

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Private collection (Greece)

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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204139603064870&set=p.10204139603064870&type=1&theater

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – 95th National Guard Higher Command

(95ή Α∆ΤΕ), Rhodes Island (Greece)

"Raw_Shooter" - http://www.modelclub.gr/forums/index.php/topic,5062.125.html

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Rhodes Island (Greece)

One of the two Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IVs shown on the photo was sold to UK

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Constantinos Zissiadis, July 2016 - https://www.facebook.com/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Rhodes Island (Greece)

Constantinos Zissiadis, November 2016 - https://www.facebook.com/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Rhodes Island (Greece)

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http://wikimapia.org/8400254/Peace-and-Freedom-Museum

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=35460&d=1285836898

Three Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IVs – Peace and Freedom Museum,

Alsancak, near Kyrenia, North Cyprus (Cyprus)

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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yerel-haberler/mersin-haberleri/belediyeler-arasindaki-tank-top-ve-zirhli-ara_21972

Marmon-Herrington – Rauf Denktaş Parkı ve Açık Hava Müzesi, North Cyprus (Cyprus)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=764624436933065&set=gm.10152435341550069&type=1

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Army base, near Nicosia (Cyprus)

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http://cyprus-mail.com/2018/01/18/tanks-moved-war-museum/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Being moved to the war museum (Cyprus)

Jim Goetz, March 2017 - https://www.facebook.com/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Latrun (Israel)

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“Bukvoed”, 2005 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armored-car-batey-haosef-6-2.jpg

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Batey ha-Osef Museum, Tel Aviv (Israel)

Jim Goetz, April 2017 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/13963542@N08/sets/72157684248398655

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV (fake turret) – Yad Mordechai Battlefield

reconstruction site, Negba (Israel)

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“r.i.s.t.a.”, 2008 - http://www.maketarstvo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10934

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Tank_Museum_24.jpg

Two Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IVs – Royal Jordanian Tank Museum (Jordan)

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Tank_Museum_41.jpg

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Royal Jordanian Tank Museum (Jordan)

This vehicle had its turret removed but has been equipped with a 3.7 inch pack howitzer instead. It is believed to be a Jordanian conversion. Jordan received 270 armored cars (mostly Marmon Herringtons) from the UK in the late 1940s and early 1950s

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Tank_Museum_124.jpg

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Tank_Museum_Jordan_2.jpg

Two Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IVs – Royal Jordanian Tank Museum (Jordan)

Ahmad Salameh

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Martyr Museum, Amman (Jordan)

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Stephen Tegner, July 2019 - https://www.facebook.com/stephen.tegner/media_set?set=a.2284282988320211&type=1

Marmon-Herrington Armrd Car Mk IV – DC6 Truck Parts, Wallmanthal, Pretoria (S Africa)

“Ducati”, February 2010 - http://www.pakwheels.com/forums/road-trips-vacations/128638-military-museum-visit-6

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – National Museum of Military History,

Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa)

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Marius van Aardt - http://www.warwheels.net/MarmonHerrington4vanAardt.html

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa)

http://www.allatsea.co.za/mygallery/military/smuts02.jpg

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Smuts House Museum, Irene, near Pretoria,

Gauteng province (RSA)

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Derek Walker, May 2012

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Suikerbosrand Moth Shellhole

Heidelberg, Gauteng province (RSA)

“Ukrebe”, February 2008 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/stedavis/2285997964/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV

Queens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein, Free State province (Rep. of South Africa)

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“Katangais”, July 2014 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Katangais/Gallery/Museums/Tempe#/media/File:MarmonHerry.jpg

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – 1st Tank Regiment, Tempe Base

Bloemfontein, Free State province (Rep. of South Africa)

Andy Selfe, June 2015 - http://armouredcarmk4.blogspot.fr/?view=classic

Two Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Sandstone Estates, Eastern Free State

province (Rep. of South Africa) These tanks are currently located in Grabouw, Western Cape. The green painted vehicle will be restored to running condition, the

other one will be cosmetically restored to static display condition

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"playtym" - http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=107737&page=3

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Durban, Natal province (Rep. of South Africa)

Colyn Brookes - http://www.sa-transport.co.za/military/armoured_vehicles_2.html

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV – Air Force Base Ysterplaat near Cape Town, Western Cape province (Republic of South Africa)

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Vic Hayne - http://www.sa-transport.co.za/military/armoured_vehicles_2.html

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV

Piston Ring Car Club (Republic of South Africa)

http://www.whitesmoke.co.za/powwow/viewtopic.php?p=79474&sid=ece2965b6e8553a9b7640672d24a7260

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV

Private collection (Republic of South Africa) – running condition

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"Megashorts", November 2008 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/megashorts/3055681897/

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk VI (2-pdr) – Bovington Tank Museum (UK)

Two prototypes were built, one with a 2 pounder and other with a 6 pounder gun in an open-topped three-man turret with electric powered traverse and protected by 10 to 30 mm of sloped armour (Wikipedia). This one is the 1st model

Greg Robson-Garth - http://www.oldcmp.net

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk VI (6-pdr)

National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa) Two prototypes were built, one with a 2 pounder and other with a 6 pounder gun in an open-topped three-man turret with electric

powered traverse and protected by 10 to 30 mm of sloped armour (Wikipedia). This one is the 2nd model. It drove on all 8 wheels by two 95hp Ford Mercury V8 engines via two sets of MH drives (Richard Farrant)

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http://www.saforums.co.za/rlt/index.php?topic=4208.0

Two Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk III wrecks – World War II museum

Loxton (Republic of South Africa)

http://picasaweb.google.com/militarium.imprezycz3/ITargiOldtimerMilitarisChrcynno29Maja2010#5479737379009935810

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV wreck

Panzerfarm, Kęszycki Brothers Collection (Poland)

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https://www.reddit.com/r/DestroyedTanks/comments/bmxir8/a_pair_of_destroyed_marmonherrigton_armoured_cars/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestroyedTanks/comments/bld1p8/destroyed_marmonherrigton_armoured_car_located_in/

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https://www.reddit.com/r/DestroyedTanks/comments/blr41o/another_destroyed_marmonherrigton_armoured_car_oc/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestroyedTanks/comments/bm5kll/destroyed_m8_greyhounds_and_further_in_the/

At least six Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV wrecks

Former military base, Chios Island (Greece)

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"Masai" - http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=107737

First Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV wreck

DC6 Truck Parts, Wallmanthal, Pretoria (South Africa) Formerly part of Dam Snake Park, Hartebeespoort, North West province (Republic of South Africa)

"Masai" - http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=107737&page=2

Second Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk IV wreck DC6 Truck Parts, Wallmanthal, Pretoria (South Africa)

Formerly part of Dam Snake Park, Hartebeespoort, North West province (Republic of South Africa)

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Nigel Watson - http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1564

Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car Mk III wreck – Unknown location

(Republic of South Africa)

I'm looking for photos of those vehicles:

Any vehicle that I forgot...

This document is a compilation of photos published on the web. I would like to thank especially Rafał Białęcki, who deserved the most job on this document, and

also the people who took these photos and put them on their websites, or sent them to me, and those who helped me doing these lists (particularly people of the AFV News Discussion Board). For any question, you can email me at [email protected]

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