We don't have an off topic section for items that might be of interest or amusement (hint Peter hint) so I'm posting the following here - I found it on a US Navy site when I was following up a line of research on WW1 signalling and although its of the recent era I thought it might amuse.
An actual radio conv...
Lt Col Gerald Leachman was in command of British Middle Eastern Desert Operations in WW1. His area of command covered the Estern deserts of what is today Iraq, modern day Saudi and Syria. In fact from Karbala to Jeddah (T E Lawrence was under his command, although one would never know it from Law...
In the recent Forts thread there has been discussion as to when gas was first used in WW1. I?ve been looking at an interesting research paper produce after WW1 for the US Staff College on the subjec6t of gas warfare and gleaned the following interesting points:
Gas was banned as a weapon of war by th...
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I've found some interesting vehicles scratchbuilders might find challenging:
These constructions reveal the scarceness and unavailability of materiel to the
Axis-powers and the subsequent solutions to technical requirements during the end of WW1.
For the period...
The subject of the cover story of the July 1938 Popular Science is of "War Machines Go Midget".
It is a two page article.
Covered are an open-top two-man prone-driven "Mobile Machine Gun Nest" tankette, a one-man submarine, a flying armored car with detachable wings and a telescoping turre...
I notice that we have lost any capability to underline, italicise, embolden text or to alter the size ond character set of text. The menu/toolbar has gone! I don't know about anyone else but I find this a pain as its useful to highlight areas that are quotes from somebody else etc.
While I'm having a mo...
This is admittedly an obscure question but here goes...
How critical is weight distribution to a tanks steering ability? For example: Would a 508kg unbalance approximately 2.06m off the centre line of a 3.66m wide tank of a total weight of 28.95 tonnes affect it's manouverability?
Is anyone traveling to Bovington at some point in the near future? If so, any chance of taking digital photos of the Rolls Royce Armoured Car?
Kerry
nailcreek@hotmail.com
any chance of some pages dedicated to forts, their design, and weaponry? like the pop up guns, the turrets, etc.? forts like verdun played a major role, so why not?
I've come across a reference to the Canadians using lorry mounted trench mortars at 2nd Arras in 1918 but no other detail. Anybody know anything about this?
I have found a reference to a machine gun armoured vehicle designed and built by a M. Pretot (as a development of an idea by M. Breton) based on a Bajac Tractor in 1915. It seems that Messieurs Breton and Pretot then substituted tracks for the wheels of this vehicle but failed to gain any interest from the...
While digging around for some more info on the siege of Erzerum to expand on the stuff in my article on forts that Peter has just posted (shameless plug) I came across one of those one liners that excites interest but leaves one unsatisfied. In a list of Turkish artillery there is a reference to an armour...
ok, this unlike a lot of the topics here has personal intrest to me, while my great grandfathers did fight in the first world war, my great grandmother was a german political refugee (thats what her parents said) but, they sought political asylum BEFORE WWI, but i havent been able to find out what they w...
I've come across a photo on a Japanese site showing details of a Japanese Navy Battleship 'showing the flag ' on a world cruise in the 1920s. The photo in question shows Japanese Naval Officers paying their respects at a Japanese naval war cemetery on Malta! Can anybody enlighten me as to what the Japan...
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I just came across an interesting historic photo on "Webshots" showing several different pre-war and early-war British armoured cars, side by side, during WWII. (Unfortunately, I can't attach it to this posting as the "Attach File(s)" function appears to no longer work. When I click o...
I was typing up a comparison of the Vickers 1921 No.2 Male vehicle compared to other advanced Post-WWI tanks. The Christie M1919, the USA M1921 Medium D-esque vehicle, the Char Delaunay Belleville, etc. I was going to try and show how these vehicles were inferior to the Vickers 1921 in every way.
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As I cannot contribute a great deal to the discussions on artillery, tanks etc. I have taken the liberty showing two more of my French light railway wagons - one finished and one in progress. I hope it will have your interest. I build in 1:35 scale and use standard H0 tr...
This photo of the RSL museum shows a machine gun armed quadcyle that is similar to but diferent from the Simms vehicle. So what is it?
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An E J T Tapp observed tanks in action in WW1 and conceived the idea of a one man machine gun armed vehicle with the operator prone but able to raise himself and the machine gun for action (sound familiar?) He apparently documented his idea and sent it to the appropriate authorities who after due conside...
Some time ago, the question was raised about starting some sort of Library/Page/Link Collection for Scale Plans on WW1 equipment of all sorts. I haven't found the thread again - anyone here that can point to it? Some effort was made, but the whole thing just petered out, mainly because of me being too p...
I do not think the British ever used Carden-Loyd tankettes to pull ski-troops, yet I have seen Canadian, Swedish, and Polish (TK) Carden-Loyds used in this role.
It is interesting that all three countries developed this practice indepentently. In this role the tankette would be a true infantr...
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For the artillery-freaks I've enhanced some interesting details on the German
"EinheitsGeschosse" or Multi-Purpose Projectiles with contruction-related
cross-section drawings.
For some reason beyond my knowledge the proponent word-document
was transferred to...
Browsing through The Devil's Chariots again a sentence struck my eye - "It later became routine for new types to be preceded by a few tanks made up in boilerplate for training use." (page 135)
In the case of the Mk II and III obviously for "few" one should read "all" but the implication is that so...
This is just a small trifle, but I have put some animated Avatars in the avatar Library - look under "Guys". I will put some more there, if there is real call for it!
And I have grabbed one of them for myself...
next may i am going to france for my photography class, 3 nights in paris, 7 nights in a roman villa in ners southwestern france (well, from paris, to avignon, to ners) and 3 days in an 18th century home 80km outside paris (which i am told was occupied by germans during both the world wars.) i might even be a...
Hello everybody,
in a few days I will start to sell WWI tank items on Ebay.
But to give the real tank fanatics the best change to buy these stuff,I will list the items a few days before I put them on Ebay.
So here is the list with items and prices(excl.ship.costs). If anyone have a question ,let me kno...
