Dutch Vickers Utility Tractor?
Tactical “good humor” man, Popsicle anyone?
Was it a mine layer?
No mine layer.
Another hint:
The rivets were very common on the other armoured vehicles of this country, too…
Riveted construction suggests Japan.
Vegetation suggests Pacific.
Last picture (above) suggests vehicle used to dig up ground and throw spoil to one side of the shaped plough blade.
Which all suggests a Japanese vehicle designed to dig a trench quickly, and possibly in hard ground such as found on coral atolls which is what last picture looks like it could be.
I’ve been thinking of Japanese tanks, just haven’t found a particular model that looks like it.
That´s correct. It is a japanese experimental trench excavator. The first pictures showed the tank stuck in the sand on Wewak, as captured by australian troops.
It is based on what I identify as modified type 98 Chi-Ho experimental medium tank, maybe the lost (no recoprds of its fate avaliable) original prototype remodelled for the new task. The front and rear fenders, the road wheel configuration and the engine compartment are almost identical to the Chi-Ho prototype. It must have been at least developed from this tank.
But this is only my opinion. Other japanese tank experts think, that it is a complete new design.
Your turn
Yours
tom! 
Thanks.
Marginally outside the 1918-45 parameters of this thread, but so wonderful it’s worth including (and I do hope it hasn’t been in this thread before as I’ve come in late).
You mean it’s post-1945?
Only if it’s Irish. 
Looks very british…
Correct.
But the first part of its name is French.
Heya, all!
The critter in question is the Sizaire-Berwick “Wind Wagon” of 1915. Only a single vehicle was built and tested in England by the Admiralty, it was thought the extra “propulsiveness” would help it in difficult conditions during use in Africa and the Near East.
Russ
Proud son of Rose and Wes
Congratulations.
You’re correct.
Your turn.
Heya, all!
Could someone post a question… I’m having a bit of “puzzlers block”!
Thanx!
Russ
Proud son of Rose and Wes
Maybe you can do better with a solution to this vehicle.
Good luck!
It’s named after an animal. And it’s not a Tiger. Or a Ferret. Or a Stag.
It’s on a Ford base.
I’ll get around to it, its just that right now every weekend is busy.
It’s a bit frustrating - by looks alone I’d say “Russian”, but this doesn’t fit any of the vehicles I know. Some more clues, if you would be so kind?
The pictured vehicle and its predecessors were a bloody sight worse and vastly less effective in combat than most things the Russians managed to produce.
Then again, these vehicles never saw combat as they were entirely unsuited to it.
They were wisely declared obsolete in 1942.
Among the many deficiencies of this vehicle series was excessive weight and a tendency to fall over due to the high centre of gravity, assuming the crew wasn’t poisoned first by the gases produced by firing the .303 Vickers in the early version which filled the crew cabin with gases.