Peter3D

Mike, good luck in your search. There was a typo in the original eBay listing. The company name is Rosencombe Replicas. You can still find their kits around these days, but I haven't found their 1961 issue RR6 Michigan 75DS. Any in existence are probably in the hands of those who support the 'OO' gauge railway accessories market. The Michigan 75DS and 175DS are two different models and both date from the late 50's/early 60's. These series 1 models were superseded in production at All Wheel Drive in 1961/62. It was all series 2 models when I joined them in 1963. Another British company I found who made a Michigan model, is Denzil Skinner of Hartley Witney, Hampshire, not far from AWD/Clark's home in Camberley. They made a plastic kit model of the standard production Michigan 175B. This is a later model and dates from the early 70's, the same period as the Military Airfield Repairing Michigan 275B featured in this topic. Unfortunately I can't find anyone in the world who has made a scale model of the Michigan 275B. I suppose I will have to do a 3D Model. Kind regards, Peter

There was a 1:76 (OO) scale white metal kit available of the Michigan 75DS by Rosecombe Replicas. I've seen one on eBay in the past.

I am an ex-All Wheel Drive and Clark Equipment Apprentice. The Michigan 175DS models for the military were built before I joined in 1963, but I am familiar with them. DS stands for dual steer. Meaning they had fore and aft driving seats for a common steering wheel. If you are interested in making a scale model, you may use my 1954-61 Michigan 175A standard series 1 model in the Sketchup 3D warehouse. It's 1:1 scale done from an overall 175A series 1 brochure dimensions and memory. Plenty accurate enough for scale models. Check it out. In Sketchup it can be easily converted to othe scales. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/579886383923e3d998b8c800ae001b66/Michigan-175-Tractor-Shovel Incidentally, towards the end of my apprenticeship in 1967, I, and another apprentice produced the drawings for Meccano Dinky Toys, that resulted in their model of the Michigan 180 series 3 dozer which was released in 1968. Models were offered to the staff at friendly prices, and I still have mine today. Regarding the Military Michigan 275's of the early 70's. I was a lot more intimately involved with them, both in the engineering and being personally responsible for the performance and acceptance testing with the men from the ministry. See pics below, taken on the Clark test site at Blackbushe airfield. 275's with slave tyres and slave weighted buckets. I had hundreds of happy hours there during my time at Clark, playing with just about every model that they produced. There were several other interesting military projects at AWD/Clark. The aircraft carrier tow tractors used from the mid 60's and up until the final Harrier days. Also 15T wading crane, chassis by AWD, crane superstructure by Smiths of Rodley. I built the last one in the early 70's, many years after the first production batch, As with the 275's we built about a dozen of each. Below is a nice pic of the last one in the wading tank at the MVEE Chobham in 1973. We used the MVEE facilities at Chobham and Hurn quite a lot for testing.