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.
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Light Tank 1936 (Command Tank Suspension) War Office
Artillery Tractor 1931 War Office 14 Produced Ref D.0.2
Artillery Tractor 1930 Low Sides Japan also China 1933
Artillery Tractor 1929 Low Sides
Towing an 18 pdr and limber
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
Vickers Carden-Loyd Light Tank Transporter 1931
Labels:
1931,
Album Two,
Carden Loyd,
interwar,
trailers,
transporter,
Vickers
Transporter 1930 Mk VI Machine Gun Carrier
Labels:
1930,
Album Two,
interwar,
trailers,
transporter
Trailer 3.7" Howitzer 1930
This tracked trailer was designed by Carden-Loyd and weighed around 7.5 cwt. It was an alternative to a Kegresse tracked trailer . These were intended to carry the 3.7 inch howitzer, a lightly constructed gun primarily designed as a light gun which would be mule transportable for use in mountainous regions. Its construction was not robust enough for motorized towing. In the end the gun carriage was redesigned to make it more suitable for towing. Under tow the barrel of the gun would be elevated. There is a picture of this in Ventham and Fletcher's Moving the Guns, p 47.
Light Trailers 1928/35
The second photograph is the tracked personeel trailer pulled by the Carden Loyd MG Carrier, for example when also towing the tracked 20mm Oerliken anti tank gun.
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.
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