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Surviving M22 Locust Tanks Last update : 10 November 2020 Listed here are the M22 Locust light tanks that still exist today. “Gàbor”, July 2008 - http://picasaweb.google.com/martong01/Bovington#5226828227372064690 M22 Locust – Bovington Tank Museum (UK) https://www.facebook.com/2348619585363508/posts/3366636306895159/

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Page 1: M22 Locust light tanks - Freethe.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_M22_Locusts.pdf · M22 Locust – Rock Island Arsenal Museum, IL (USA) photo provided by Charles C. Roberts M22 Locust –

Surviving M22 Locust TanksLast update : 10 November 2020

Listed here are the M22 Locust light tanks that still exist today.

“Gàbor”, July 2008 - http://picasaweb.google.com/martong01/Bovington#5226828227372064690

M22 Locust – Bovington Tank Museum (UK)

https://www.facebook.com/2348619585363508/posts/3366636306895159/

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https://www.facebook.com/2348619585363508/posts/3366636306895159/

2 M22 Locusts – Kevin Wheatcroft Collection (UK)

Unknown source

M22 Locust – Dutch Army Museum, Delft (Netherlands)This tank is currently stored and not on public display

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Pierre-Olivier Buan, April 2019

M22 Locust – Heintz Barracks, Bastogne (Belgium) – running c.

Pierre-Olivier Buan, December 2018

M22 Locust hull (and turret reproduction) – MM Park, La Wantzenau (France)Ian Hughes has cast a turret reproduction for this tank (shown above), he had the engine and transmission but only 1 track. As it is

possible to convert the Locust to run on Stuart tracks Ian bought a whole set including sprockets. He brought it from a private collectorin Michigan (USA) about 2 years ago, the previous owner got it in 2003 from a museum "somewhere in eastern USA"

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Jim Goetz, April 2017 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/13963542@N08/sets/72157684248398655

M22 Locust – Yad Mordechai Battlefield reconstruction site, Negba (Israel)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215419672668801&set=pb.1346855703.-2207520000.1525531677.&type=3&theater

M22 Locust – Royal Jordanian Tank Museum (Jordan) – running conditionEngine not original (Chevy car engine) .Turret and gun not original, made from 3/8 and 1/2 plate steel (Milweb advert)

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“rahul m”, November 2010 - http://picasaweb.google.com/113353781365135287048/CavalryTankMuseumMIRCAhmednagar#

M22 Locust – Armoured Corps Museum, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra (India)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, September 2019

M22 Locust – American Heritage Museum, Hudson, MA (USA)This vehicle was part of Jacques Littlefield Collection in California. The entire Littlefield collection was donated to the Collings

Foundation, and only 80 of the 240 vehicles of the collection are now displayed in a museum in Hudson, MA. The other vehicles weresold in an auction in August 2014

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Pierre-Olivier Buan, September 2019

M22 Locust – Museum of American Armor, Old Bethpage, NY (USA)Previously displayed at the Military Museum Of Southern New England, Danbury, CT (USA)

Silvio Iacuone

M22 Locust – Military Technology Museum of New Jersey, Wall Township, NJ (USA)Currently has fake plywood and steel turret. The hull comes from the Military Museum Of Southern New England, Danbury, CT

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Doug Kibbey, June 2006 - http://www.com-central.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=7585&start=30

M22 Locust “Jumpin Judy” – Fort Lee U.S. Army Ordnance Museum, VA (USA)This tank was part of the first batch of 60 items that were transferred from Aberdeen Proving Ground MD, to Fort Lee VA. The vehicle

is currently stored and is not publicly visible

Photo provided by Craig Moore

M22 Locust – Private collection, OH (USA)The turret looks like a reproduction

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John D. Helms, February 2011 - http://www.fortbenningphotos.com/

M22 Locust “Little Ben” – U.S. Army Center for Military History Storage FacilityAnniston, AL (USA)

The turret is a replica (USA AFVs register). The vehicle is currently stored and is not publicly visible

“Mark L.”, April 2009 - http://picasaweb.google.com/lopicma/RockIslandT9E1Locust#5329528281123802914

M22 Locust – Rock Island Arsenal Museum, IL (USA)

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photo provided by Charles C. Roberts

M22 Locust – Roberts Armory WWII Museum, Rochell, IL (USA) – running conditionSerial Number 110. The tank is a former farm tractor and the original turret was removed. It had to be reproduced. More information

here : http://www.robertsarmory.com/resttech.htm

Picture from the owner - http://www.6thaarr.com/m-22-locust.html

M22 Locust – Private Collection, Georgetown, TX (USA)This particular Locust was sold as surplus after WW2 to be used as farm equipment. It was pulling farm machinery around a field in

Indiana for years, then changed hands three times, one of the owners being Bayliss Restorations, Mims, FL (USA). It is currentlyundergoing restoration. The former owner replaced the original engine with a 300 chevy engine and got rid of the original engine. The

current owner has put a 350 chevy engine instead

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“mfrance”, November 2008 - http://www.g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=129913

M22 Locust – Unknown location (USA?)Previously owned by the World War II US Military Vehicle Museum, San Rafael, CA (USA). The turret seems to be a fake one

I’m looking for photos of those tanks :

any tank that I forgot….

This document is a compilation of photos published on the web. I would like to thankespecially Rafał Białęcki, who deserved the most of the job on this document, and alsothe people who took these photos and put them on their websites, or sent them to me,

and those who helped me doing these lists (particularly people of the AFV NewsDiscussion Board). For any question, you can email me at [email protected]

Main page : http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Panzers.html