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A record of service

An archive of UK military vehicles, indexed by ERM.

A searchable database of vehicles and their service records — indexed by ERM, the six-character Equipment Registration Mark the MoD uses to identify every vehicle and piece of plant in service.

Archive at a glance

Vehicles indexed

228,728

Service entries

973,835

Images

10,818

Registered users

7,254

01 · Search

Look up a vehicle by ERM.

The six-character Equipment Registration Mark used by the Ministry of Defence to identify its vehicles — the starting point for every record in the archive.

02 · Garage

Save vehicles to your garage.

Register a free account to pin vehicles you care about and receive a notification when new images or service records are added.

03 · Submit

Add an ERM or image.

Help build the archive by adding a vehicle ERM or submitting an in-service image. Operating under the Open Government Licence.

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Photographs are copyright their respective owners and used by permission of the contributor unless otherwise stated.

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