PMA – British LRDG PATROL CAR / Chevrolet WB (camouflage blue)

Popis

-sběratelský model vojenské techniky  Chevrolet WB  1/72

-provedení: kovový model s plastovými částmi

                     Chevrolet

Chevrolet (/ˌʃɛvrəˈleɪ/ SHEV-rə-LAY), colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the company on November 3, 1911  as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant’s second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim “a car for every purse and purpose”, would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford’s Model T in 1919 and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by 1929.

Long Range Desert Group
LRDG badge depicting a scorpion within a wheel
Active	July 1940 – August 1945
Disbanded	1 August 1945
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Role	Reconnaissance Intelligence gathering Raiding operations
Size	Maximum 350 all ranks
Part of	Western Desert Force Eighth Army
Nickname(s)	Libyan Desert Taxi Service Pattuglia Fantasma (Italian: Ghost Patrol)
Motto(s)	Non Vi Sed Arte (Latin: Not by Strength by Guile) (unofficial)
Equipment	Chevrolet or Ford trucks, Willys Jeep

The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) was a reconnaissance and raiding unit of the British Army during the Second World War.

Originally called the Long Range Patrol (LRP), the unit was founded in Egypt in June 1940 by Major Ralph A. Bagnold, acting under the direction of General Archibald Wavell. Bagnold was assisted by Captain Patrick Clayton and Captain William Shaw. At first the majority of the men were from New Zealand, but they were soon joined by Southern Rhodesian and British volunteers, whereupon new sub-units were formed and the name was changed to the better-known Long Range Desert Group (LRDG). The LRDG never numbered more than 350 men, all of whom were volunteers.