Slightly odd. Caption reads: The new Allied weapons, an English land dreadnought on German positions. Illustration by Achille Beltrame for La Domenica Del Corriere, 8–15 October 1916. No such thing, obviously. But a curious resemblance to the Automatic Machine Company's Alligator/Land Crui...
In the bad old days before Landships, those less informed than ourselves would often state that certain guns carried by the A7V Sturmpanzerwagen went under the name of "Sokol," supposedly a Russian armaments manufacturer. The problem was that no such manufacturer could be shown to exist. The near...
Anyone old enough to remember Look and Learn, the educational magazine/comic/newspaper for children? It published from 1962 to 1982, when it ceased. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_Learn At some point it relaunched - or at least someone began using the title - as a picture library, li...
To my surprise, I haven't been able to find a photograph of this contraption, predecessor of the unditching beam. I know I've seen one in the past, but nothing comes up now. Anyone got one to spare?
Gleaned from The Tank in Action by Capt. D.G. Browne, describing the activities of the Palestine detachment: "The surviving tanks, meanwhile, were overhauled and provided with some especial roller-sprockets, constructed in the workshops of the Egyptian State Railways. Requests for more and n...
I was under the impression that all the A7Vs were male tanks. That the Gretchen tank was converted into the male version. This pictures shows Gretchen as a female tank. The first one on the left is Baden, middle one Cyklops and then Gretchen on the right.
I can't find the Kora K-Wagen, Soifg gun carrier, Mister X Flying Elephant, and Cromwell Mark VIII models online. If any of you could provide links to where I could buy them that would be greatly appreciated.
Came across a mention of this early German prototype, apparently tested in 1916 & 17 and based on "parallel revolving vats." The Steilwagen seems to have been something similar, but no further info. Does this mean anything to anyone?
Hello!There are maybe just 2-3 websites on the net that mention the Orion-Wagen. That's why I decided to post a short German article about that tank on Wikinfo. Wikinfo is a so called Wikipedia-Folk and like Wikipedia it doesn't allow uploading photographs that are copyrighted. So I had to pixel my o...
IPMS South Africa is holding its biennial competition in Aug 2014. Naturally, the main theme will be WWI. I would like to scratch build a K-Wagen, but need details of the tracks - has anybody got? ? Tony
In the light of the discovery that the Steam Wheel Tank was the wrong way round, should we now consider the possibility that the Treffas Wagen also had its driving wheels at the rear and was steered by the small roller, or is it beyond doubt that the big wheels were at the front?
In Firrearms News May 2021 issue there is an article by Paul Scarlata "Small Arms of the Freikorps" which contains a number of pictures of armored vehicles used by the Freikorps
Tanks Encyclopedia has some outstanding content - wonderful artwork, wide range of vehicles described in impressive detail, some of them delightfully obscure. However, if I might make an observation (and I hope Leander and the other contributors will take this in the spirit in which it is intende...
There seems to be a bird of prey resting on the gun, a mascotte ?( stuffed) The 280 TR mortar was studied in 1909 by the Schneider Company at the request of the Russian government for an 11-inch siege mortar. In 1912, the first prototype of this 11-inch (279mm) mortar was tested at Otchakoff agains...
There seem to have been two types of Clayton & Shuttleworth tracked tractors used in WW1. One that looks very much like a Holt 45 tractor and another with the general configuration of the Holt 75 (aka Holt 15-ton). I haven't been able to find out any details about these tractors, their use or specif...
I'm working on a fairly large scale model in Meccano and am using the 1/35th scale model by Meng as a very useful reference. I'm currently trying to understand how the levers and rodding work on the brakes - in particular on the nearside where you seem to have two separate inkages acting on the same brake...
Came across this on Tank Encyclopedia and their Dutch source here. Caption translates as: "Image with which the German technician Goebel, who invented the tank in 1915, wanted to promote his invention (which was not taken seriously by the German army command)".I don't know how Herr Goebel used the...
Thanks for letting me onto this forum. In recent weeks I've finally got round to work on a large scale model of the Mk V tank in Meccano. I've just about completed a representation of the 6 cylinder Ricardo engine and some of the front section of main frame. Proving very useful for reference is the 1/35th...
Hi gents anyone recognise the plans in this photo, iam guessing they are by Ken Musgrove looking at the part name showing, found the pic on a scratchbuilding blog sute which is no more and cant track down the blogger think the fellas name is Col but thats all i know. Anyway its a copy of those plans i was aft...
Once again running the risk of embarrassing myself. This might be well-known, but I don't recall seeing it before. A Whippet surrounded by what look like Austro-Hungarian troops, with maybe a sprinkling of Germans. How could that have come about? The tank is clearly labelled A249. I came across it o...
