Matilda - Duck or Empress??

kfz · 12-12-2006, 10:57 PM

The Matidla mk2 names after Donald ducks auntie or something or the Empress???

Always assumed it was Empress Matilda, but according to wikipedia (must be true then!!) its named after one of Donald Ducks rellys. Sounds silly to me (not that the Briish would ever give ther itanks stupid names) but I cant think of any other Briish tanks named after monachs (less you count Churchill).

Kev

Kyt · 12-12-2006, 11:08 PM

No, but there was the anti-monarch.....the Cromwell

MikB · 18-12-2006, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by kfz

The Matidla mk2 names after Donald ducks auntie or something or the Empress???
Kev

I thought it derived from the nickname of the Infantry Tank Mk.I - which really did look a bit like a duck in side view. When the much-enlarged and 2-pdr armed Infantry Tank Mk.II was introduced to the same role, the name continued, and was (IIRC) ultimately made official, even though the thing no longer looked ducklike...

Regards,
MikB

von Poop · 18-12-2006, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by MikB

I thought it derived from the nickname of the Infantry Tank Mk.I - which really did look a bit like a duck in side view. When the much-enlarged and 2-pdr armed Infantry Tank Mk.II was introduced to the same role, the name continued, and was (IIRC) ultimately made official, even though the thing no longer looked ducklike...

That rings a bell.

Waddler:

Not quite so 'waddly':

Za Rodinu · 18-12-2006, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyt

No, but there was the anti-monarch.....the Cromwell

You also had the Cavalier and the Covenanter. Stangely not the Roundhead (I suppose it didn't begion with a 'C', like the Crusader, Cromwell, those two above).

Also there was the Valentine, why?

Owen · 18-12-2006, 12:25 PM

C is for Cruiser tanks.
Valentine was an "Infantry" tank.

kfz · 18-12-2006, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Za Rodinu

You also had the Cavalier and the Covenanter. Stangely not the Roundhead (I suppose it didn't begion with a 'C', like the Crusader, Cromwell, those two above).

Also there was the Valentine, why?

I know this one, i know this one.

Cos some meaningfull date, like the first prototype or something was Feb 14th.

Kev

kfz · 18-12-2006, 09:24 PM

Disapointing. You know when you make an assumption that turns out to be false?? Much more impressive that whe was named after the great Empress Matlida, who my all accounts seems to be one of English histories characters, not after some ducks Auntie...

spose its quite funny and not at all surprising considoring other Britsh tank names efforts. A lot better than Yank tank names, at least we think of new ones.

Kev

von Poop · 19-12-2006, 12:15 AM

Cavalier, Crusader, Cromwell, Centaur, Covenanter, Challenger, Caernarvon, Churchill, Comet, Centurion, Conqueror, Chieftain, Challenger(again), Challenger2, etc... Stupidly this obsession with 'C' in British tank names only dawned on me a couple of years ago..

von Poop · 20-12-2006, 02:59 PM

Few more lost in a small forum crash:
Conway, Contentious, Crocodile... and, as reminded by MIkB, Charioteer.

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