{"id":2533,"date":"2021-06-23T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museoaviazione.com\/portfolio-items\/carro-anfibio-per-ponti-galleggianti-gillois\/"},"modified":"2021-07-19T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T08:19:19","slug":"ewk-gillois-bridge-layer","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.museoaviazione.com\/en\/portfolio-items\/ewk-gillois-bridge-layer\/","title":{"rendered":"EWK – “Gillois” bridge layer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This amphibious vehicle was used for Gillois bridge layer. It was developed in 1958 by the Kaiserslautern metallurgical company EWK on the\u00a0 design of French army colonel Jean F.Zhillou. This \u201cGillois\u201d was adopted by the German army after all the initial test phases. Several of these vehicles were purchased by Armed Forces of\u00a0 Israel, Great Britain and France where it was known as “Timsach” (\u201ccrocodile\u201d). The German Army, however, didn\u2019t make much use of this vehicle because the Bundeswehr chose to commission a modified version of the EWK which better suited their needs and was eventually put into service under the name of\u00a0 M2 Alligator.The US Army’s 11th Engineer Group stationed in Darmstadt, Germany also used a certain number of these. Although the design of the vehicle was initially entrusted and developed by EWK, almost all of the vehicles were manufactured by the French company Pontesa in collaboration with Lorient naval arsenal. Overall about 250 were used by the French army.<\/p>\n

The vehicle on display comes from Piana delle Orme Historical Museum (Latina-Italy)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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