In response to the recent posting under tanks re armoured cars in Africa. 1. The armoured cars in use in S W Africa and East Africa were sections from No 1 Armoured Car Squadron RNAS. 2. Since the cars used in SW Africa were Rolls Royce (see photo attached) then its is very likely that the ones in E Africa we...
I'd be pleased to hear from anyone in, near or visiting Suffolk.? There are some photos held in their Record Office in Lowestoft that I'd like to see, but unfortunately Lowestoft is a long way from me!? I don't want copies (just a knowledgeable eye for tank types and markings)?and I can't pay expenses o...
I am thinking about a reform on the Model Gallery: I will stop hosting the actual pics of models myself on the site. Instead I will just **link** to the free photo sites were the pics are stored by the individual modeller (Flickr, Photobucket etc). This will means that the modellers are urged to publish...
Just wanted you to know that I'm back. I'm still pretty much mired in work, so the work on the site will be at a reduced rate.? But at least I will be able to do some updates. (And participate in the Forum.) Which I have, today. -- Edited by Peter Kempf at 15:56, 2007-04-18
There is an obscure little reference that, while German Tsingtao was under siege by the Japanese, an armored train was employed by the Germans breifly to attack Japanese positions. From the description in the text, it appeared to be a small narrow gauge locomotive and railcars that normally transp...
Hi,?any information would be welcome on regular arab units in particular uniforms and 'Kaffia'(traditional head scarf)?colours and anything else...many thanks cheers -- Edited by Ironsides at 01:32, 2007-04-15
A photo has recently been uploaded to the AWM website. It's a nice, clear photo of Lady Wingate. The photo number is P03613.009 and it looks as if there may be some sort of camouflage on her (or a strange corrosion pattern; take your pick)
Visiting Moscow this last weekend I bought an injectionmoulded?(1/72) kit of a Russo-Balt ac, its short-run and not of the best quality though. The producer is "LW", soes anyone know anything about this producer? Are they russian? (all text in the instructions are in english and there i...
I thought that it might be useful and a guide to newer members if we had a thread to highlight those places in otherwise impecable reference books where either captions are incorrect or photos are possibly mis leading. As a starter here is an first review of Tanks of the World 1915 -1945.
Page 69 item 5...
I found the attached photo of a Mk V* belonging to the? Canadian 1st tank batallion at Bovingdon in Oct 1918. Interestingly it has no call sign or home service number. The shot comes from a Canadian military article on the development of armoured tactics.
Hello all, I'd like to model the MK A Whippet known as "Musical Box", of which there is an article on this site, however, I have no idea what markings it carried! Any help is appreciated. In case there is no available info on "Musical Box", I'd like to model one with national bands o...
I thought that it might be instructive to see how a photo can mislead. Take a look at photo A. This is often produced and can be seen in A New Excalibur. Its very dramatic showing the officer about to unleash his tank into the fray on the Menin Road. However this is part of a larger photo that has been severel...
Hello I.m looking for data about production artillery? weapons? during? WW1? for main? participants? of war (? thats mean how many each model of gun was? produced? in given year ) .? I have attached these data for A-H and partly France ( sorry but I don't remember source). I will be gratefull for simill...
The Germans recovered and repaired a significant number of tanks from Cambrai in 1917 but I've read various references to British crews in 1918 destroying, blowing up or otherwise disabling their tanks when forced to abandon them. This suggests that British tanks were now carrying some form o...
Remember the FT17s that turned up in Afghanistan a couple of years ago? I've come a cross a claim that at least one FT17 was captured "from the British Expeditionary Force" that entered Afghanistan during the Third Afghan War of 1919. Is this a possibility? Any evidence of any Renaults bei...
If anyone hasn't come across these yet, the museums at Axvall and Munster have revamped their websites and got better pics of the LKII/Stridsvagn. http://www.panzermuseum.com/battle-tank/lk-ii.html http://www.pansarmuseet.se/? (on this one, click on Samlingen in the left-hand column,?...
I thought that it might be worth opening a new thread now that the landlord of the Old Bill has asked us to take our discussion outside. ?Ive started with two composite pictures of holes in the front of tanks. The first one just shows an extract from larger pictures, blown up a bit. In the second one I blew t...
I found the attached photos of a mystery WWI artillery piece on Ebay. The one I purchased is an unused postcard, with generic printing on the back in English. The captions seem to read "155mm French Field Piece". It looks to me like many features of the gun are of the "de Bange-type"...
There is a photo on the Daimler website that may show Mother in her Solomon camouflage. The tank is definitely Mother but I'm not sure whether the colouration is camouflage or mud/dust/other gunk. To my eye it is far too neat to be mud.
In the series "Weaponology" on the Military Channel, there is film of the 1914 Pattern RR cars on the show titled "Armored Personnel Carriers".?? Don't ask me why it shows up in that particular show, but it is facinating to see the cars "in action". Very cool stuff .....
I know a lot of people have had various difficulties and frustrations with the forum but I think the slightly new appearance, where new posts are in boldface as well as having the nodding icon beside them, makes it easier to pick out the new posts from all the old posts. Thanks to whoever is responsible f...
Hello everybody, have been searching the internet little bit and found one interesting site with many plans... some of them I have never seen before. http://www.batailles-blindes.com/chars_anglais.php are all thore from WW1-era?
Hello, I've been looking into the history of Rolls Royce Armoured Cars for a while now and have been struck by the lack of a complete service history for these fascinating and important vehicles. Having given up hope of ever finding an official history, I have been working on a timeline of my own showin...
This photo is entitled "The Kaiser in Bowness 1900" but I can't make head or tail of it. It does suggest that the need for security and body guards was much less then than it is now
Looking around I found a Spanish web site with some good pictures of the Char 2C but also an interesting piece of info - if true.
It claims that tank no 99, named Champagne, survived the ruin in 1940 and was shipped to Germany. In 1942 it was sent to the Renault factory and overhauled before being...
