Showing posts with label tractor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tractor. 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

Medium Tractor 1934 AEC Engine


Medium Tractor 1930 Armstrong Siddeley Engine



Medium Tractor 1930 No 1 Dorman Engine


Light Dragon Mk III 1935 as sent to India


Light Dragon 1934/5 Mk IId War Office


Light Dragon 1932 Mk IIC Poland


Artillery Tractor 1936 Belgium (Famillereux)


Artillery Tractor 1931 War Office 14 Produced Ref D.0.2


These are the vehicles ordered after trials of the prototype shown in a separate poste here.

Artillery Tractor 1931 Low Sides India




Artillery Tractor 1931 High Sides


Artillery Tractor 1930 Air Ministry


Artillery Tractor 1929 Chertsey Demonstration Model D42



The caption to this photograph in Album Two adds:

also
611 Light Dragon Mk IIC - Greece 1934
612 Light Dragon Mk IIC - War Office 1935
614 Light Dragon Mk IID - India 1936
615 Light Dragon - Siam & Java 1939

This is the high sided version of this vehicle.

Tractor Truck


The album caption for this photograph is Tractor Truck 1936 China


Tractor Truck 1935 Standard (also Cable Laying etc 1935)


Tractor Truck Tipping Body1935, also Metropolitan Water Board 1936


Tractor Truck Turntable and Trailer 1935. Turning Circle 26 ft with Load. Overall Length with Corner extended 26' 6".


Tractor Truck Aero Starter 1935


Tractor Truck Pipe Carrier 1935

The Vickers Carden Loyd Tractor Truck was a commercial design which used a 30 cwt lorry body mated to a fully tracked chassis based on the Vickers 2 ton tractor. The British Army purchased three vehicles for trials but it was deemed unsuitable for service use.

Utility Tractor 1932 Personnel Carrier



Two identical photographs (apart from the cropping), the second captioned 1934 Belgium Familleureux. The sides seem to hinge and drop down to provide leg rests for the passengers who are carried on the two sides. This vehicle was used by the Dutch Army to tow a 47mm anti tank gun, the crew riding on the tractor.

Utility Tractor 1932 Standard


The caption in album two adds:

also
302  ploughing, haycarting, barge towing etc
304  with Berthier 1932
305  British Army 1933

(The Vickers Berthier was a light machine gun of French design produced by Vickers from 1925. It looked similar to the Bren Gun and was adopted by the Indain Army in 1933.)