It's worth going back to Gallica to see what they've added - found the regulations for the Schneider 280mm howitzer SPG... gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9668769t Lots of drawings of the gun vehicle components. Charlie
I caught the end of "The Travel Show" on BBC last night, next week's includes a 'Laurence of Arabia' experience in Jordan, it's on iPlayer if anyone is interested, but hopefully next weeks will have more. A couple of screen shots below. Hopefully there will be better pictures next week, but the whee...
In the Osprey book "Armored Units of the Russian Civil war Red Army" page 45 there is picture of a painting of the battle of Kakhovka October 1920. It was painted by Ivan A Vladimirov who has a number of other paintings of the Russian Revolution and Civil war periods. Some are online look up painting of I...
I just recently found out that Comberg makes 1/72 scale Russian artillery pieces and Free Time Hobbies sells them. I am buying the following: G7204 Russian 6" Siege gun Model 1877 G7205 42 line (106.7) siege gun model 1877 G7207 6 " fortress gun model 1904 I should have post a message on this site abou...
Quite an interesting question on Quora: "How can I get a list of ships that transported the tanks in WW1?" Don't know why he/she wants it, but I assume that will include those via Southampton, the ferries from Richborough, and, of course, those sent to Gaza. Anyone know where to start?
http://www.milweb.net/webvert/a3237/93871 Great if you have the money, even better if you have the drawings to build your own. Anyone know who built it. -- Edited by BC312 on Thursday 12th of July 2018 05:12:42 PM
Hello, I have recently decided to undertake a new project of building large scale model of a Mark IV tank, by machining all parts myself manually and with some CNC parts. I have been a hobbyist machinist for some years now and have the skills to do it, though I am lacking any real reference material, only...
Howdy, In skimming through the Beinecke photo archives at Yale's website I came across photos of a large armored car, apparantly on the US/Mexican border ca. 1914.? Does anyone know anything about it and what service it saw? Take a look here:? AC1 AC2 MarkV
I have recently learned that the first nation to adopt roundels for aircraft identification was France, in 1912. Germany later used the Tatzenkreuz, often wrongly called a Maltese Cross. This is it: As we know, it was applied to aircraft and tanks, and then superseded on both by the Balkenkreuz, whi...
A7V Gretchen was used in a the making of a propaganda film at Sachy training ground in October, 1918. The title, I am told, was Die Abwehrschlacht (The Defensive Battle). Does it exist? Anyone know anything?
recently I got by ILL the book "Gulaschkanone The German Field Kitchen in WW II and Modern Reenactment" by David L Thompson who bought and restored a German WW II era field kitchen. It has also sorts of info on its operation accessories, recipes ect. Note the German WW I field kitchen was almost identi...
Dear members, My grandfather bought for his transportation firm a Hansa Lloyd Truck, which was used in WW1. I only have some photo's on which the truck itself is not very good to be seen. I would appreciate any photo's from a Hansa Lloyd as used in the War. I hope you are able to help me. Enclosed the only pi...
Posted on the Axishistory forum, but I guess there are some folks here who might be able to help. No information, just two pics. Could be some German WW1 era prototype or modification.
As I mentioned, went to Bovington last week. Quite a few changes since I was last there, which wasn't that long ago. There's a new/additional layout, some new exhibits, information, etc, covering quite a few topics. If anyone fancies the idea, I'll do a few posts on the Forum, a topic at a time. With pho...
Most of the photos of these tanks that have soldiers in them show troops (male and female) who are recognisably Soviets. But what about these? Are they American? British? The tunics don't look Russian, and there are no boots. If they're not, then these photos must have been taken after July 1945, wh...
On Facebook there is a nice picture of a Mark V. It is on www.facebook.com/ghostsoftime It is a compilation of a now and then picture: the Mark V, fallen through the side of the bridge. I can not place the now and then picture here because of copyright but when you are on Facebook, take a look: https://ww...
We're nearly there. The Strand Magazine plays a major role in this tale, and has a lot to answer for. In 1883 it published Arthur Conan Doyle's short story J.Habakkuk Jepson's Statement, which is why, to this day, most people get the name Mary Celeste wrong. It published The Land Ironclads in 1903, wh...
well, i draw the second pic, so it's not the official pic of A7V hook cover dose anyone know about the round shape cover that in the red circle and "B"? i can't find any information of this stuff round shape hook cover can only found in first picture
Came across a reference to this company, which is based in a place called Creil. The source said that it made turrets for the FT, which is news to me. Then I found this quote from Michel (Tanker): "Pour les curieux, les chassis de FT, montés à l'usine Billancourt, étaient fabriqués à l'usine Daydé de Cre...
I am very pleased with this. You might remember a discussion a while ago about this: In July 1918, Popular Science Monthly reported, "Because a fellow of the Royal Historical Society has unintentionally misled the British public as to the origin of the famous "tanks," Sir William Tritton, who desig...
