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 exercises. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercises. Show all posts
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
Light Tank Mk1 - Okehampton 1925
Rough going on exercise at Okehampton - the caption for the final photograph reads "the white marks on the rocks show marks of tracks"
Tuesday, 7 July 2015
Trials at Wool, February 1925
The Trials at Wool (at Bovington) in 1925 predated the establishment of the Experimental Mechanised Force by two years. From the photographs it appears they were particularly lookng at the performance of various vehicles - tracked, half tracked and wheeled - for moving the artillery. This included having them attempting to climb Gallows Hill, the occasion on which Adolphe Kegresse legendarily threw his hat in the air shouting "The wheel is dead" after one of his vehicles outperformed all the wheeled contenders. The letter or number contained in some of the captions designates the particular vehicle being tested, and these letters or numbers are displayed on the vehicles in the photographs.
The photographs in this post are captioned "general" - those with identified vehicles have posts of their own,
There are also photographs from test and exercises at Oakhampton in 1925, the Dominion Premiers Exhibition in 1926, and the Wool trials of February 1927.
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.
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