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| While we are still pondering yesterday's, here is another brain teaser. I see 2 different truck models in this lineup, try to guess them both. Emblem removed from the 1st truck, although you really couldn't read it. 
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Sterling and Mack
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I'll agree with Brian here.
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tanks are: Renault FT-17
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| Sterling and Mack, also. Perhaps another candidate for earliest tandem? Bruce
1932 White 643 restored in the working museum
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Autocar and Mack.
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| I'm thinking that this is a TCSW variant of the USA class B and a Mack. TCSW as in Tank Carrier Six Wheel. I've never seen those fenders though (or I should say I don't remember them).
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will go along with Don on Autocar and Mack
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| Warren Richardson is dead on target with this one, both with his i.d.'s and with his comments about the fenders. The trucks in the rear are Mack AC "Bulldogs" from the WW1 era of around 1918, as are the tanks. The front truck is much rarer, but is well documented in Fred Crismon's "U.S. Military Wheeled Vehicles". In the late '20's and early '30's the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corp was in the truck building business at Ft Holabird, Maryland. This 7-1/2 ton Tank Carrier Six Wheel" (TCSW) was built using many components from the WW1 Liberty truck, including the transmission and clutch, but was mostly custom built. There were 3 versions of these trucks, all using a Continental 15H six of 105 hp. The truck in the photo is one of 12 of the last versions built in 1932, and has much more stylish fenders than any of the ones pictured in the Crismon book. I believe the top of the radiator says "USA". When this photo was taken in the early '30's those AC bulldogs and Renault tanks from WW1 were already obsolete, as was common with much of the equipment in our services at the time. I found this photo at a vendor in Huntsville and don't have any more images of the TCSW. I do have a few more of AC's with tanks, which are below. 
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