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Could be nothing (probably is), but on looking through the photos i purchased from Bovi of the last MK1... I think I found some lettering. confuse

Unfortunately the glossy photo shows what is left of some lettering better than my scans, so I have coloured the bits I can trust are 'something'. The letter is just a ghost image, a left over from a previous paint job.

It's only one letter, which at first I thought was an 'S' but realised there was a scratch running across the letter and it was more likely a 'C'.

It seems low down for a name, although past experiance has shown I have a lot to learn about these early tanks. :)

Soooo... my question is this.... Presuming I'm not just imagining the letter, does anyone have a list of names for Mk1s, or some idea why there could be lettering there beyond a name, a part number or something?

I know the Mk1 was a construct of parts put together to present to Hatfield Park, but did it also get a name and a paint job before going on show. Anyone know?

I will try a low level scan and see if this helps, as I have found that sometimes a high scan rate can doesn't always help.

Helen x



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My first thought about lettering in that position, so low down, was that it might be part of the "With Care to Petrograd" subterfuge:

http://landships.activeboard.com/t44447072/with-care-to-petrograd-russian-speaker-needed/

But in that case, it should be a number not a letter. But maybe it is something like that.



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I'd agree that the faint marking seems to be in the right location for a serial number on the starboard side of a Fosters-built MkI. It almost looks like "750", which would be congruent with the Fosters production run (739-775). I don't have any info on the service history for 750.

David Fletcher mentioned that his predecessor at the Tank Museum had a good look over the tank when it arrived from Hatfield Park, and didn't find any markings which would identify it.



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Am I the only one who cannot see a thing on those plates?

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biggrin No, me neither - I've tried everything except changing the screen (resolution, brightness, contrast and colour saturation) and Korean red ginseng.  But I've tried zooming in and out, looking from every angle (which can make a HUGE difference with an LCD screen) to no avail.  Some interesting surface "patterns" in the finer detail but those could be random or an artifact of the infamous .jpg "smearing".  Not to doubt there could be something there, just that my setup cannot come even close to resolving it if there was.  Leaving the quest to those not so impotent.  A graphics application with edge filters might help.  Or Korean red ginseng.



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