1/35 Monty's office caravan
ICM 1/35 Monty's office caravan is a plastic kit of General Montgomery’s mobile office on the Leyland Retriever chassis. It contains 436 parts and 3 marking options. Paints and glues required for assembly are not included.
When General Montgomery commanded the British 8th Army in North Africa, he was given a specially designed staff vehicle. A body serving as a mobile field office was mounted on the chassis of the standard British Army Leyland Retriever truck. The small front room had a bathroom, while the larger one held wardrobes for personal belongings and clothes, a writing desk with lamps and a large sofa.
The body had originally belonged to the Italian General Bergonzoli and sat on a Lancia 3RO truck. After a unit of the British 7th Armoured Division captured it, the body was transferred to a Leyland Retriever, and after the fighting in North Africa ended the office moved on to Europe. Montgomery also had two other converted trucks – one as a mobile bedroom, the other for large staff maps and meetings. All three became known as “Monty’s Caravan” and are now on display at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.
The 436 parts of the ICM kit build into a model 202 mm long and 91 mm high. The decals show the vehicle in North Africa in autumn 1942, in Tripoli in summer 1943 and in Germany in spring 1945 – three stages of Montgomery’s campaign. Paints and glues required for assembly are not included.
Nationality: United Kingdom. Period: World War II.
| Category: | Military Vehicles |
|---|---|
| EAN: | 4823044410583 |
| Scale: | 1/35 |
| Period: | World War II |
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