Mika's very kind offering from Heigl appears to throw new light on this topic. David J. Childs (Tanks; A Peripheral Weapon?) quotes Kenneth Macksey in The Guinness Book of Tank Facts and Feats: "Two wireless sets per company were delivered in July 1916, but they were soon returned to Woolwich A...
The site has been given a new look, with the option of commenting on the clips. Some of the descriptions are horribly misinformed, and I've been going along doing a bit of correcting/improving. Feel free to join in. It's well worth a trawl through. Some items that have emerged: A parade for the Shah of P...
Can anyone point me in the direction of any maps of 3rd Ypres showing disposition of Tanks? Failing that, any documentation that would enable me to form a picture in what remains of my mind?
Hi all,
Hope anyone can help me? I'm looking for good scale drawing of the 8" and 9.2" British Howitzers so that I can hopefully make models of these guns?
I would also be grateful if anyone could pass on any tips on the making of artillery models.
Hello chaps I've been chatting with Paul Thompson at EWM about their upcoming releases for WW1 and just after. As well as the MkV*, which should be out this week, I understand that a Schneider CA, Liberty tank and troop carrier are on the stocks. I'm attaching a couple of pictures?of the master of the Sc...
I am soooo getting myself to Bovington this year! The replica Tank from the film War Horse was on local new last night, thought I would put a link here for everyone to drool over.... Movie Tank Helen x
Having one of those "Doh!" 'Homer moments' here... as in why the chuff didn't I buy it when I saw it years ago in Foyles for ?25? I am referring to the original German language?Motorbuch Verlag board cover book of WJS's R und VK. Before I decide to rectify that mistake online for a huge mark-up...
Digging around I found the enclosed photo. It isn't, as one might at first think, another uberlandwagen with A7v tracks but an entirely different vehicle - the Duerwagen. These were produced C 1916 by the Duer company. Each track unit had its own motor. However it seems that it was decided that...
Daily Mail website today - a full-sized model Challenger 2 tank made (at least partially) from egg boxes, in aid of forces charity. If not on the home page, you can find it by searching for "egg boxes tank".
Found a list of the Blandford Press publications, and this was amongst them. Never heard of it before. Might contain something of interest. Quite a few available, starting from 63p!-- Edited by James H on Saturday 15th of January 2011 01:28:12 AM
Or Big Picture Atlas of the World War, online. Haven't had time to go through it all, but it appears to hold promise. Certainly some stuff I haven't seen before, e.g. Romanian PoWs in Alsace.http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=browse&scope=History.Bi...
Hi : I've been building WW1 planes and ships for awhile? but want to get back to some armour. I was thinking of the Airfix MK 1 in 1/76 scale. Between the male or female, is one a better kit? On the early british tanks ,what where the trailing wheels for? I've read that they added in trench crossing and sterr...
Look at the enclosed photo. This appears to be a Mk V Neuter as most of the gap for the sponson has been plated over. Also note - where is the exhaust pipe?. The photo was originally mis captioned as a Mk V* supply tank - but what was it really - a Mk V trialing a new engine?. One can just make out a census number b...
Here are three links to download three documents I recently scanned at NARA.? The first is has two lists produced by the US Army of WWI German Army abbreviations.? The second two links describe the operation of the Reichsarchiv after the war and how "Die Weltkrieg 1914-1918" series was pr...
Very grateful to Lincoln Tanker for the link to the Getty Images shots. Set on the trail by the "film in Dorset, 1927, " have come up with this: The Somme, 1927. Director, M.A. Wetherell Cast includes: James Richardson; T.W.H. Veale, V.C. Found this synopsis: "The Somme" gives...
Hi, Another couple of pics.?The first one looks like a Ford to me and far as I can see, the other ones are all Peugeots? ? ? -- Edited by Poilu on Thursday 2nd of February 2012 11:50:07 AM
The attached images?are photos I've taken of the gun outside The Legion branch in Trenton, ON, Canada. Many of the Legion branches have such guns outside, so although I'd like to think they are trophy guns somehow connected with that branch, I have my doubts. Nobody in the branch knew anything about t...
