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 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
Artillery Tractor 1931 War Office 14 Produced Ref D.0.2
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.
Labels:
1935,
1936,
Album Two,
Carden Loyd,
commercial,
interwar,
source - Fletcher,
tractor,
Vickers
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.)
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
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