Convoy plates

[Mrs Vampire]

OK
I want to know what is the official name for the plates that fit into the plate holder on the front and rear of most soft skinned vehicles.

I have forever called the things they fit into convoy plate holders and the plates that go in convoy plates .

I did a Google search looking for pictures of them and it seems no one calls them convoy plates.

I need the correct nomenclature and a link to a place where I can get info on them . I am especially after info on the markings on my tank which I am told are Mud and Blud .

[hrpearce]

Try tac sign in google

[Mrs Vampire]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Mike Cecil]

Gina,

And technically, even 'tac sign' (as in 'tactical sign') is not correct: they are a Unit sign holder (the formation sign was most often, at least during WW2, painted directly onto the vehicle. The Australian exception is 2nd AIF Middle East).

Tanks did not have unit sign holders: the formation and unit signs and associated tactical signs (like squadron markings) were painted directly onto the vehicle in positions as specified by higher headquarters. There are, as you can imagine, many exceptions and interpretations.

I gather you are wanting to mark your M3A1? Do you have any particular (and appropriate) unit/formation and period in mind? Do you have the tanks original US serial number?

Mike C

[Mrs Vampire]

Taa Mike

I will attach a photo later

It has what I was told was Mud and Blud on the rear. Its original but the colours not quite a spiffy as i would want.

a square with the lower left diagonal a kind of red and the upper right diagonal brown green colour. big white 53 in the middle

[Mrs Vampire]

I also want one for the Blitz but having them both with the same plate might be incorrect ??