David Herbert

Having been heavily involved with getting Duxford's M40 going when it arrived at Duxford, I have an interest in their use by the British Army. As far as I can tell we had 27 in total, received as mutual aid in 1954 and nombered: 70BA00 to 70BA04 70BA10 70BA11 93BA39 to 93BA58 This is from Geoff Fletcher's excellent article on p56 of Windscreen mag no.116. That article gives the unit that some of them served with but I would like to find where they all served and what became of them all. I have no details of the US nos. or the shop nos. of any of them. Does anyone have photos of them in British service? Does anyone have photos of the M40 that was aquired by the East of England tank museum when it was at Bassingbourne near Cambridge or before it was filled with concrete at Stamford. Why did it go to Bassingbourne - an RAF station ? I know of two destroyed on Salisbury plain - one in battlesbury bowl the other recently recovered by Bovy. Also the wreck that was on Sennybridge and now in a private collection. Does anyone have the nombers of these three or the one in Woolwich or know of any others in the UK ? Lastly does anyone have TM9-747 or Ord9-G232 (or any other relevant publications) to spare? David

I have been involved with WW2 tanks for many years now and in my conversations with Adrian Barrell and Hanno Spoelstra they keep refering to realy good threads on HMVF so I have had to move reluctantly into the 21st century and join the HMVF and MLU. Unfortunatly my computer skills are rubbish so please don't expect anything complicated from me but I know that there are people out there interested in all sorts of obscure stuff and I need to talk to them ! I have owned the remains of a very late Ram tank for longer than I care to admit with the intention of restoring it as a Command/OP version. The project was stalled by my divorce some time ago and then other pressures but I have been collecting parts and information and have been goaded into returning to it by Carl Brown's restoration of a Ram Kangaroo for a customer. This has shown up how much I don't know of the interior of the C/OP so if anyone has detailed information please get in touch. I am particularly looking for the Parts list suppliment for the Ram C/OP. I have also been in love with the M40 155mm GMC since being heavily involved with getting Duxford's one going and am looking for anything relating to its use by the British army. Please see my post in 'Tracked Vehicles'. Best wishes to old friends and new David