Hi Skua, Basically a good idea to make supplies of ammo readily available which, in practice was not so - at least not when employed by my Regiment the North Irish Horse. If memory serves, each Squadron had three which were towed by the troop in reserve. I do know units of 6th Armoured Division had them but not how useful they found them to be. Somewhere I have a photo of one of our Churchills with one in tow - will try to locate it. - in the meantime there is a picture of a model on: http://missionmodels.com/pages/armo.htm All the best, Gerry
Thanks Gerry, I´ve never seen a photo of a real Rota Trailer, so I´m very interested indeed in seeing your photo of the Churchill towing one. The Rota Trailer seems like a sound idea, except perhaps for carrying fuel in the wheels ( how did that work out by the way ? ). What sort of trouble did you have with it ? And thanks for the link. I´m an enthusiastic modeller, and I found a lot of stuff there I haven´t seen before.
Oh yeah, absolutely! Gerry, (or anyone else, ofcourse) can you explain to me what that SdKfz 8 with that sort of bungalow on it is??? I've never seen such a thing before and can't exactly understand the use of it...
Hi Panzer P It was designed to tow artillery pieces. The "bungalow" covers two lockers in which ammo was stored. There are some photos on: http://cybermodeler.com/armor/sdkfz8/sdkfz8.shtml As ever, Gerry
Thanks a lot Gerry. You're right. Maybe if I had looked a bit better I could have came to thesame conclusion myself.
Re: rota Interesting photograph, one of a very few showing Churchills of KingForce preparing for action at Alexandria, Egypt.
post subject not many people would know that Gerry!As you probably know six of these took part in the Alemein do! One knocked out but the others fought at Tel el Aqqaqir ( not to be confused with El Quassassin!!!)(sorry, in joke!)
i heard of a rota tralier befor at first i thought of yhe fule tralier the churchill crocodile towed but while i was playing spww2 i noticed a bren carier was towing one
yeah it sure is! And,mystery's revealed: no questions on what the ROTA trailer might have been any more. At least, not that I can think of...