I've seen a reference to the St Chamond Mortier de 280 sur Chenilles 1918 self propelled gun being used by the Germans in Russia in 1943. Anbody know if this is correct?
After reading a lot about tanks, I was very interested in the various concepts of trying to improve steering and traction on tanks.
I always thought the idea of a Single Band Tracked Vehicle was very interesting, but of course, you could never steer it.
Then I thought... What about De Moles co...
Greetings to all. Here has found variants of tanks of a series "IF". Can, it will be interesting... (Who knows, what it for a charming tractor?) [URL=h...
Probably, this site to you is already known. Many photos of war and technics. (around it is a lot of nonsense - do not pay attention) Attention! In Russian!
http://wwi.sbn.bz/
The enclosed tank photo may be of one of the tourers. The photo is of the welcome home of Sergeant John Collins of the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the ceremony appears to have taken place in Cyfarthfa Park. Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, South Wales. This park also received a presentation tank, a pho...
It seems that tank weeks as part of fund raising were not confined to Britain and at last some American cities had these as well. I have found a refeence to a tank fundraising event in Los Angeles in August 1918 in which "there will be a mock battle with a British tank" (who will be battling it doesn't say&n...
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I am looking for any pictures or photos and information on the Rolls Royce Armoured Car Indian Pattern from the early 1920's. It is allegedly a Rolls Royce with Crossley-Style Round-domed turret. I have never seen any evidence of this particular Rolls Royce Armoured Car.
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I've read some time ago at jedsite.info site that two "The Best 75 Tracklayer"'s were introduced in San Francisco.. it might have been a public introduction.. so there must be something like newspaper articles, some photos or stuff...
If anyone could find anything I think that many people should...
Before I post any further on the subject below please can I have some feedback? If its too boring (especially for non British readers) I'll keep further material on this on my files.
In late 1917 three Mk IV male tanks went on a fund raising (war savings) tour around the UK. These were 113 Julian, 130 Ne...
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Here's a link to a nice high resolution WWI period photo taken in Glasgow, Scotland showing a tank built by William Beardmore & Co.
New Tank
Note the incomplete tank and various tank bits to the left.
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I bought a random assortment of issues of the 'Tankette M.A.F.V.A.' Magazine off of Ebay. I bought them at a good price, the reason being I wanted the issue about the WWII New Zealand Schofield Tank. However, some of the issues I found a surprising ammount of WWI and pre WWI stuff aswell, so I thought I sh...
Given the references to Tank Bank in a previous thread I thought it might help understanding to provide some information as to what this was so I've nicked the following from a BBC web site.
Banking on the tankIn November 1917, the Tank Corps achieved its first concentrated breakthrough at Cam...
I enclose another scanned image. This shows flimsies being unloaded at the tankodrome amidst a number of sponsonless Mk Is. The date is later than April 1917 as in the far background sits a Mk IV female (I enclose a blowup). The Mk Is are not passive hulks as exhaust fumes show motors running. They do not...
I have seen reference to a British 4" stokes mortar that the US copied and eventually made the 4.2" Chemical mortar from. Was this 4" mortar used in WWI and if so by whom? Does anyone have any references to such a weapon?
Thanks,
Chris
Belatedly at Eugene's request I post a picture purpoting to show Enver Pasha and some of the Young Turk movement with an armoured car. It is certainly captioned that way in more than one book. On examination however I have a slight qualm in that the crew appear to be in regular army uniforms (in which cas...
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My 1/35 Emhar Whippet and the Airwaves PE set have finally arrived I plan to model the HMLS Union, the Whippet used in the Rand Revolt of 1922, but need some info.
1. Does anyone know where I can look to find the call sign and serial number of this Whippet? Is there a list some...
I can find many references to the British casualty figures on day one of the Somme but nothing on the total number of British soldiers that went over the top that day (my grandfather amongst them). Does anyone have these figures? I'm involved in a work that amongst other things will be looking at the cha...
Hi Guys, I have been asked to build a couple of Panzer Shop MKI's for a customer, and he would like them finished in the Soloman camo' style. The question I have is that all the finished kits I have seen seem to have the different areas of colour seperated by a black line. But thi...
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I am starting on a 1/6 scale scratch-built replica of the British Rolls Royce armo(u)red car and am looking for plans. I have the "Fine Scale Modeler" magazine plans (Sept 1989) but it appears that these were not reproduced to 1/24 scale as was indicated on the plans. They seem to be about 6%...
When taking digital photos, is there some form of standard colour reference that can be placed with an object being photographed to determine accurately the true colour of that object? Sort of like placing a ruler beside an object to get a measurement. I've seen photos that look different in colour n...
The plates that you often see bolted onto every other track plate in WWI tanks seems to be a low-tech, yet very smart, way of lowering ground pressure on tanks.
But, I have always only seen them affixed on every other track plate, or even less. Furthermore, I have never seen them mounted on the insid...
After checking a multitude of photos of female Mk IV's and V's and comparing them with some excellent photos taken by Mandrake and posted in the Flirt II (MKIV Female) Walkaround thread, I have come to the conclusion that when it was being refurbished "Flirt" has had it's sponsons put on...
I stumbled across these photos in the AWM photo library. They also appear in the book "A Company, 301st Battalion Tank Corps". The significance is that they show a Mark V Composite from both sides, in the field!
Captions: "Lt.s Rock and Warden just north of Bellicourt, Oct. 4, 1918" "L...
I plan to model the HMLS Union, the Whippet used in the Rand Revolt of 1922, but need some info.
1. Does anyone know where I can look to find the call sign and serial number of this Whippet? Is there a list some...