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...
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I am looking for pictures, drawings and information on the Wisconsin tractor, the reason is that I came a cross a note that the White army used them to construct half tracks.
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I gave my garford a coat of green paint, and now I am wondering about tis machineguns should they be green or gun metal? and what about the canon and the canon shield?
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I am getting close to finishing the Armo garford putilov and I enjoyed the build, although the kit had some problems,
I am thinking about getting either the Austin-Putilov, the Izorski-Fiat, or Austin-Kegrese
I read a review on the Izorski kit, but it looks a bit too simple what...
We had some problems a while ago, with sh*t postings not belonging to this forum.
The new system is that all anonymous postings must be approved first. And this far it has worked! A number of illicit postings got stuck in the net, the postings deleted before they appeared, and the posters IP's banned...
I thought it might be useful to share the following bit of e mail with the forum.
Robert -Well, technically your Swedish correspondent friend is correct: Panzermuseum.com is no longer the official site of the Panzermuseum Munster. It used to be until about 2004 when my friend at the Pan...
I've noticed that there seems to be a form of automated censorship of postings so that for example if one wishes to refer to the bit of the aircraft that the pilot sits in this piece of automated baudlerism changes ones text to ****pit Come on now. The same thing happened to an earlier posting when...
this is a translation of an article from the website http://armor.kiev.ua/, this is the first part of three instalments ( its too big to do all in one turn)
Armored Tractors Part 1
Without having official papers, you write on plain paper. When you don?t have tanks, you armor tracto...
No I'm not talking about the recent tropical weather in the UK and California (or even the therms generated by some recent discussions on this forum, a major threat to the melting of the glaciers ) but the heat in WW1 tanks. I guess that we are all aware of the heat problems in the Britsh Mk V, I have recentl...
Did the AH's use the Maxim MG 08/15 LMG? If so, did they intigrate it into all infantry units, just Stoss units or set up seperate detachments?
Hope this post is okay since it does not discuss a vehicle.
Chris
In some pictures of Ford 3 Ton Tank seems to have a different rear hull length than in other pictures. I can't find any pictures on hand to support this statement, but here are two pictures from my little russian book, that seems to show two different types of Ford 3 Ton Tanks. One has the normal long engin...
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I Would like to greet everybody in my first post.
I'm presenting my Mark V 1/15 scale model. The kit was made using polystyrene sheets and resin castings. The kist is based on my friends Andrzej Jasinski castings and plans. As You can see the hull is almoust ready. Only the side sponsons need t...
Minor warning - if doing research on Joseph Vollmer (see another gently glowing thread) be aware that there was also a Heinrich Vollmer involved in tank work in the 1920s and 30s - mainly in the area of armaments. This can confuse searches. It would be interesting to know if the two were related.
I found this when brousing for something entirely different. It seems to be part of someone's holiday snaps - but does any one have any idea what the gun is?
3 more guns. Although only one is exact ww1 vintage I've been told that 2 were rolled out against the Turks and one was captured from them. I have no way of verifying this.
See enclosed blowup from a Pathe still. Its slightly foreshortend but reasonably clear. Whats the box like structure between the cab and the hatch? There are a few odd things in this photo - the man in the hatch with a full set beard - ok for the Navy (and some Czarist units) but anathema in the British arm...
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Here is a long complicated question, which I am sure some one can answer.
I am searching for a comprehensive list of Tanks used at the Battle of Cambrai.
Male to Female ratio
Tanks destroyed.
Number and name of each tank.
Crew names, and those tha...
I've got rather caught up in exactly how many Tanks were used at Amiens, and it?s very difficult to find two sets of numbers the same.
First, the French; Rhomboid and Mad Zeppelin are right according to Guenaff & Jurkiewicz. The 10th BCL (Bataillon de Chars Legers...
I enclose a picture of a wrecked tank
The sponsons and roof hatch proclaim it a Mk IV but its census no. and track adjuster (see attached blowups) seem to indicate Mk I. I'm sure that this isn't the case - any explanations?
Early supply tanks
It is a commonly repeated view that supply tanks were conversions of obsolete marks. This is incorrect insofar as the Mk IV supply tanks are concerned. The record of tank orders show that 180 Mk IV s were ordered from the factory as supply tanks at a time when the Mk IV was in...
