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 MG Carrier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MG Carrier. Show all posts
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Machine Gun Carrier Mk VI Standard (with Armoured Top)
The back of the photograph is marked No 103. Vickers Carden Loyd Machine Gun Carrier Mk VI. Standard with armoured top 1929.
The same caption is given in the album, along with:
also
101 Latvia 1931
111 Czechoslovakia 1930
113 Italy 1930
114 Palestine 1930
115 Roumania 1930
116 Siam 1930
Machine Gun Carrier Mk VI Standard 1928
The full caption in the album sys:
103 Vickers Carden Loyd Machine Gun Carrier Mk VI. Standard machine wand components. No armoured top. 1928.
also
105 Mortar 1929
106 Stokes Mortar 1929
108 47mm gun 1929
110 India 1929
112 Greece 1930
The numbers are Vickers' own references and seen to deisgnate individual vehile types or sales
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
Machine Gun Carrier No 1 experimental "Three Man Tank", 1926
This 6.75 ton vehicle was ordered from the Royal Ordnance Factory in 1925 and was originally intended as a cheap three man tank. Its two ball mounted Vickers machine guns, mounted in turrets at front and rear, were not easily demountable and experiments proved this rather clumsy vehicle was no more acceptable as an MG Carrier than it was as a light tank.
It was part of a number of efforts to decide on the best form of Machine Gun Carrier, testing a variety of vehicles in the late 1920s ranging from unarmoured half tracks to tanks.
(Source: BT White British Tanks and Fighting Vehicles 1914-1945)
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