M59 armored personnel carrier

The M59 armored personnel carrier was built by the Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation (FMC) of the United States, type-classified in May 1953 and entering service in the spring of 1954. It offered three advantages over its predecessor, the M75: it was amphibious, had a lower profile, and was considerably cheaper to produce, using twin GMC engines of 146 horsepower each, a welded steel hull, torsion bar suspension, and rubber seals on all hatches and doors together with a trim vane for its amphibious role, reaching about 4.3 miles per hour in water and 32 miles per hour on roads with a 120 mile operational range. It carried a crew of two plus ten passengers, and roughly 6,300 were built between 1953 and 1960 before being superseded by the M113 family. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/