Name that Vehicle

Discussion in 'Weapons, Technology & Equipment' started by Arlo, Nov 24, 2006.

  1. Vintage Wargaming

    Vintage Wargaming Well-Known Member

    Here's another one. This has definitely appeared before, but only in my avatar I think

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  2. Vintage Wargaming

    Vintage Wargaming Well-Known Member

    There is actually a really easy way of finding out, I have just realised
     
  3. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    Correct, as if Adam could be stumped.
     
  4. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Cannot be done.
     
  5. Vintage Wargaming

    Vintage Wargaming Well-Known Member

    No interest? Or too hard?

    What about this one which looks to me a little like a Pzkfw 1 which has been sat on by a Char 2C.

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  6. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Sorry, I was being polite. :unsure:
    Hawker Siddeley's version of the light Dragon being trialled as an mg carrier.
    Was it for the Dominion premiers display a few months later? Wasn't sure of that bit.
     
  7. Vintage Wargaming

    Vintage Wargaming Well-Known Member

    Up to a point - Armstrong Siddeley not Hawker Siddeley, which didn’t exist for another nine or ten years.The photo is dated 1925 and the Dominion Premiers was the following year - so possible, though I don’t know either. I did have a look at the Pathe newsreel of the Dom Prems in case it was on film but couldn’t spot it. But it was good for appreciating how impressive the Independent looks at speed and what a useful piece of kit the Birch Gun looks.
     
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  8. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    D'oh, brain fart.
    Mere hours before replying here I was more correctly saying Armstrong while admiring the thing elsewhere.

    In mitigation, your other is a Carden Loyd light vii of c.1928, which by odd coincidence had just popped up in that Ogorkiewicz book.

    I think it was you I first saw that Pathe Premiers film via. Damned fine.

     
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  9. ozzy16

    ozzy16 Well-Known Member

    Don't know if this has appeared here before.

    The Super Heavyweights.
    Weighing in at over 123 tons and a top speed of a tadge over 6mph, this weapon could heave a 2 ton shell upto 4000 meters. ?????

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  10. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    I know this will be easy for some people to guess but it's such a good photo I have to post it.

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  11. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Birch Gun. One of the most pleasing AFVs from an era of pleasing AFVs. And GS Wagon.
    (There's a reason Fletcher chose that shot for the cover of 'Moving the Guns'... )
     
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  12. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    And not only that, but the perfect juxtaposition of horse and tracked vehicle - having jumped right over something wheeled.
     
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  13. Vintage Wargaming

    Vintage Wargaming Well-Known Member

    Two pictures at Elswick of the less well known 1928 v.3

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  14. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I've been at the un-captioned stuff again.
    In advance, I'll say I have no idea myself.
    As one IWM curator wag on Twatter rather splendidly said after I shared the pics there:
    "The only thing that could improve this would be if they'd painted INCONSPICUOUS ABANDONED WAGON on the side."

    Have at it.
    Half expecting a Traniac to get it within 45 seconds.

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    Edit - was just about to share this thread on Twatter, & noticed it's 12 years old today.
    Synchronicitous nerdism. Congratulations & commiserations to all players. 3000+ posts of often genuinely interesting dullness!
     
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  15. Vintage Wargaming

    Vintage Wargaming Well-Known Member

    Whatever it is it looks like someone fouled the air inside it (aka a visit from President Trump) in photo 2 requiring the escape from this gas attack in photo 3 (I notice respirators are carried but not deployed).
     
  16. Tolbooth

    Tolbooth Patron Patron

    is that a radiator and the front of an engine in picture 2 ? Was it self propelled?!
    That said it reminds me of Cpl Jones butchers van...."Open, 2, 3. Out 2, 3. Shoot, 2, 3."
     
  17. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Yes. It made me think of a WW1 rhomboid sort of layout. Though I hesitated to muse further as I know nothing of what might be normal for self-propelled rail gear of the period.
     
  18. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    What's this for then?
    (And what's the basis, but the purpose is more interesting.)

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  19. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    No expert but the front does look like a Bedford.

    An abundance of prime movers on this thread with variations as the many variations of champagne....always an interesting thread.
     
  20. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

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