What is it?

[Harlan (Deceased)]

I know what it is but wondered who'd guess what it is first. (Hint - it weighs over 30 pounds)

I went digging in my garage through boxes of stuff to try to find some different gear to post and found this boat anchor up on a shelf. (It's gear of some sort) I cleaned several years worth of garage dust off of it and took some photos this morning.

I'll post a few here and see who knows what it is. I'll post the rest after it's identified.

I'll bet even Lloyd doesn't have one of these (and I have no idea why I do)

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[gunner]

Hmmmm, a booby trap in a phone???

[LimeyCarbineLover]

No i actually dont....... as its too late and outside my collecting sphere

but id be mighty impressed if you had what it fits inside though..... Harlan

Regards

LLoyd

[browningautorifle]

Is it the phone box that attatches to the outside of a tank? This was the sort of item that put an Infantry commander on the ground in contact with the commander of the tank. Usually located on the rear of the tank at head height.

[topaz]

The item only works finding m1 carbines, when you get next to one the red light will go off?

[LimeyCarbineLover]

Jim is correct does he win a cookie........

M41 Walker Bulldog or M48 Patton .....if i am correct

This adaption was seen on some Shermans during WW2..where a standard EE8-B was monuted inside the tank and the handset mounted in a 30 cal ammo tin on the outside of the tank hull.

Regards

Lloyd

PS Hey Topaz i better not have one of "them" in my kit room then...the red light would be continually ON.......;-)

[topaz]

The designer of this contraption was a women. I happen to see a couple of them being sold on e-bay.... Every mans nightmare

[Harlan (Deceased)]

You guys are impressive!

It's an armored interphone for a Sherman tank. It was mounted on the back so the soldiers outside could talk to and direct the tank crew inside.

M5 Stuart Tank, M4 Sherman Tank External Interphone Manual

Now I just need a tank to go with it.

Here's the rest of the photos. I couldn't show them because it was too easy to look up the nomenclature or numbers and Google it up. It really is heavy and the huge spring loaded locking mechanism is like a bear trap.

[browningautorifle]

I only know because when I joined the Centurion was still in service. We used them to gain contact within. If they worked...