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 WW1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW1. Show all posts
Tuesday, 7 July 2015
Mk V Tank - fittedwith a Johnson sprung track and Rolls Royce engine - experimental, 1918
Mk V (tadpole) Tank - experimental design for crossing the Hindenberg Line, 1918
Little Willie, the first experimental tank made, built 1915
The First Album
Posts of photographs from the first album will use the full captions shown, which are usually longer than those from the index shown above.
The first album seems to be chronological and is more systematic than the second album. It starts with Little Willie, the first tank of 1915, and goes up to the late 1930s.
The second album contains more thematic sections on interwar bridging activities, Carden Loyd tankettes and Vickers/Carden Loyd Light Tanks, Dragons (tracked artillery tractors), and WW2 equipment including Valentines, including brigelayer and Archer SP anti tank gun, the Tetrarch, and the Alecto.
Labels:
Album One,
artillery,
exercises,
half track,
interwar,
light tanks,
tanks,
WW1,
WW11
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