armoured personnel carrier
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19970113-003
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
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Artist / Maker / Manufacturer
Ford Motor Company of Canada
Canadian Bridge Company - Date Made 1944/05/
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Distribution and transportation artifacts
- Sub-category Land transportation, motorized
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1944/05/01
- Latest 1944/05/31
- Brand Name / Model Mk II* Wasp IIc
- Pattern Name Universal Carrier
- Materials Metal
- Service Component Canadian Army
- Measurements Height 160.0 cm, Length 366.0 cm, Width 213.0 cm
- Caption Universal Carrier, Mk. II No. 2* Wasp IIC
- Additional Information The Wasp was a self-propelled flamethrower. The projector was mounted on the front of a modified Universal Carrier fitted with a 341-litre fuel tank. The Wasp could hurl a burning stream of fuel up to 90 metres. Terrifying to the enemy, this weapon was sometimes equally hazardous for its Allied operators if the fuel tank was hit and exploded.