This blog provides images and information on interwar tank development by Vickers Armstrong Ltd. The photographs used have come from two works albums from Vickers Armstrong Ltd, held by the Beamish Museum and used here with permission. They also cover other vehicles including half tracks and wheeled transport.
Showing posts with label Dragon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dragon. Show all posts
Friday, 24 July 2015
Armstrong Siddeley Dragon
The Dragon towed the gun instead of carrying it like the transporter. This is the vehicle which inpressed Captain Sheryer so much at TTS as a machine of great reliability, making a run of 100 miles in one day with only one involuntary stop, and was the first tracked vehicle to last 1,000 miles before track wear put it out of commission. The engine was an air cooled aircraft enginee.
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
Demonstration for Dominion Premiers, Camberley, November 13th 1926
Birch guns (second type) on the move and in anti aircraft firing position. These slef propelled guns gould also provide normal artillery fire.
Mark I Dragon
Light Tank Mk II (Vickers Medium).
British Pathe footage of this event is available on YouTube
Bridge Carrier - Dragon Mk I carrying 30 ft bridge, 1926
This vehicle can be seen in action in this YouTube clip from Pathe News of the Dominion Premiers demonstration at Camberley 1926
Labels:
1926,
Album One,
Bridge Carrier,
Dragon,
interwar
Armstrong Siddeley Light Dragon converted to machine gun carrier, 1925
Tuesday, 7 July 2015
Trials at Wool -February 1925 - Royal Artillery Dragon (M)
Armstrong Siddeley Light Dragon (steers by horns), 1924
No 2 Dragon - first experimental Dragon fitted with Vickers tracks, 1922
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