railwaylad Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 (edited) ireland purchaes eight landsverk L180 armoured cars from the swedish firm ab landsverk in the mid to late 30s the L180s were built on the chassis of a scania three axel truck and were powered by a bussing nag v8 it had a crew of 5 its armour was 5-8mm thick armament 20mm anti tank gun and two 303 mgs they were in service with the irish army ontill the mid to late 80s three were scraped but 5 still servive today,,photo "1" transport museum dublin "2" curragh camp co kildare "3" under restoration private owner netherlands "4"axvall armour museum sweden "5" amerfoort museum netherlands. Edited December 9, 2009 by railwaylad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Great stuff..thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 We used some in 1940 against German paratroopers when they invaded the Netherlands. The Dutch ones also had a rear facing machinegun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintary Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 is there not one of the l180 in cork {private owner} he got it from the curragh as a restoration project i belive it was in a bad way with noth left on it i think it had been use to keep the rest of them running. this photo was a good fue years before it was sold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Oh you Irish do have some super kit squirreled away! :clap: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Not a Landsverk........but a Irish built armoured car, a 1941 Thompson Ford MkVI. A link posted here shows one laying in a field in North Wales, apparantly there only about four survivors. Preston Isaac had one in his museum until recently when it went to an Irish museum. www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1103842 The photo was taken about 3 years ago, so may not be there now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintary Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 ahhh the poor thing,, 3 ford mk 6s went to GB after a irish army auction in the early 70s one went to wales (grange cavern museum) that mite be it,, im not sure but i think the museum did close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 ahhh the poor thing,, 3 ford mk 6s went to GB after a irish army auction in the early 70s one went to wales (grange cavern museum) that mite be it,, im not sure but i think the museum did close. That sounds like the one then, because the museum closed some years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean101ryan Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Here's Preston's one in the Museum of Ireland in Collins (Royal) Barracks Dublin Landverk L60 in same museum (not a great picture) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railwaylad Posted January 10, 2010 Author Share Posted January 10, 2010 is there not one of the l180 in cork {private owner} he got it from the curragh as a restoration project i belive it was in a bad way with noth left on it i think it had been use to keep the rest of them running. this photo was a good fue years before it was sold. the guy in cork/kerry sold it in 2005 to that private owner in the netherlands he had the ongoing restoration on the internet ;;; search under landsverk m38 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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