Designed by Vickers in 1936 and built for the purpose of replacing the
aging Medium Mark 1 and 2. It was to incorporate the best features of
the cancelled A6 project. This tank was in active service from 1938 to
1941. The Close Support (C.S.) version mounted a 3.7" howitzer in
place of the 2 pounder main gun. The Germans were known to have
used a few captured Mark 1 C.S. tanks in North Africa as late as 1942.
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/GreatBritain/BritishCruiserTanks.html
3 comments:
A splendid looking device. Three turrets seems like a reasonable quantity...
Yes give the driver his own MG, talk about enabling road rage......)
Three turrets? Typical war office penny pinching! Five is surely the way forward?
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