Hi Has anyone got a good photograph of a full side elevation of the above. Also on some there was rope wrapped around the barrel.Was this to keep the recuperator cool.I have read somewhere that water was poured on the rope to keep the barrel cool. The reasons for these questions is that I am at long last do...
I spent the past weekend at the Bovington Tank Museum's 'Tankfest' event. As a living historian with the Great War Society, I was one of several members doing 1917 Tank crew during most of the day, then a quick change into 1917 infantry to match the rest of the group for the battle arena display in the lat...
Includes Light Railways of The First World War (W.J.K. Davies, 1967), J.F.C. Fuller's autobiog, and many more. All expensive, but they tend to be. This is a new one on me: In the Wake of the Tank by Lt-Col G. Le Q. Martel: The Story of the First Eighteen Years of Mechanization in the British Army. No websi...
I have a number of questions that are artillery related: I understand the Germans used 72 mortars during the Gorice-Tarnow Offensive of 1915. Does anyone know what type and caliber of mortars they would have been using? When did the germans start using poison gas shells in combat? Is there a place on t...
Very interesting tagging. "tpt transport truck lorry wagon army soldier military war aldershot sale germany land boat ship sail yacht daimler 243 is an uberlandwagen, effectively a7v tank witho...
Sorry if we've been over this before, but I don't immediately recognise this pic of what I assume is one of the Russian Mk Vs, or where it fits into the sequence of events. Not even sure of the location - is it Berlin, before arrival of Red Army in 1945? I notice the right hand track seems to be already broken...
If any of you are interested we have carried out several explorations of many of the Verdun Great war forts built after the Franco Prussian war and which were used in the Great War. The site is liberally covered with? photographs taken inside the forts and is still a work under way so new forts are often a...
? The last A7V #506 Mephisto isn't at the Queensland Museum - it was moved out to an undisclosed location for restoration of the flood damage. The museum has said it will be back next year in a new location above the flood level. Regards, Charlie ? ?
Here's all the unidentified artillery pieces from my Gallipoli trip - some on the Gallipoli peninsula, most across the Dardanelles in Cannakale in the superb Naval Museum ? [IMG]https://i282...
I have been wanting to buy the Hat American W.W.1 soldiers but I am not at all knowledgable about uniform colors. I was hoping someone could recommend a Vallejo color to match the U.S. uniform color. Thank you, any help would be appreciated.
A bit late in the day to ask this, but does anyone know the length of the wheelbase and overall length of the Holt 75 and Baby? Also the length of track in contact with hard ground? Can't find any plans or references to these. Much obliged for help.
Still preserved at their original site on the Gallipoli peninsula is this battery of four French 24cm Modele 1876 coastal guns on their 360 degree traverse GPC mountings. Three had the ends blown off but the charge in the fourth didn't go off. The guns are sited in two seperate fields, two guns per fiel...
For those interested in the above I have just put on the W^D website gallery-latest entries some pic's sent to me by Alvin Perkins of Canada,the Den Bels Autocar and some W^D figures. Awesome work.
I'd never heard of this until very recently. It struck me as strange because the British at that time did not use millimetres for gun calibre (they would have said QF 13pdr, or QF 3in, for example). It took me a while to get to see this gun, but here it is: [img]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5197/7203...
Dear all does anyone know where i can get a better printout or copy of the attached drawing of the FT-17 tank. If you look at the one i have , its done in three sections and?not joined together properly by the turret top hatch and just in front of the rear sprocket wheel, so i can't realy scale up the parts of t...
I'm not a believer of the paranormal but look at the photo's of the car (Graf&Stift) in which Franz-Ferdinand was killed (as told one of the reasons to start WW1): Plate number: A11 1118 : when the "A" is concidered as abrevation of Armistice (In French and English), the rest is the date...
I noticed that tracks in MK tanks are completely unarmoured. Is there any practical reason for it? Also, I noticed that tracks in k-wagen were under armour. Would the armour provide significant protection to them?
This is a trophy gun on display in Niagara Falls, Ontario. On the breech it has the number 39. Looking up this number on the War Trophy allocation list tells me it was recorded as 105mm calibre. Hoever it does not look like a?10.5cm l. Feldhaubitze 98/09, or a?10.5cm leichte Feldhaubitze 16. It also doe...
Hi all, there is 8mm ammunition, 9, I think even 7, but why are there so many calibres without a round number so to speak: 7,62, 12,7 etc. for rifles, pistols and MG's. Where does that come from? regards Kieffer
It's the accepted wisdom that the 75mm BS stands for Blockhaus Schneider. Thinking about it, I wonder if that's true. It was fitted to the CA in a barbette. What has that got to do with a blockhaus? Fair enough, it was in a fixed casemate on the Renault FT 75 BS, but it was called the BS before that. I am incre...
Hi Has anyone any idea of where I could get hold of some scale plans of the above.There is a side elevation in Landships of Lincoln which is excellent but no scale is mentioned. Many thanks
? Image from the IWM archive - no information on the vehicle except that it's inter-war. The tracks look like a variation on the snake track with ball and socket joints between the track elements. Regards, Charlie ? -- Edited by CharlieC on Saturday 28th of April 2012 07:19:54 AM
