The Valentine Mk.V Tank In NZ Service The Valentine was one of the most important British infantry tanks of the Second World War. Built in vast numbers between 1940 and 1944, more than 8,200 of all marks rolled off production lines in ...
The Sound of WW2 : 29 Tracked Carriers In Convoy The Universal Carrier, more commonly known as the Bren Gun Carrier, was one of the most widely produced armoured fighting vehicles of the Second World War. In 2015 a record-breaking event brought ...
Discover history at the Geraldine Military Museum The Geraldine Military Museum is an experience not to be missed. This remarkable collection of vehicles, artifacts, and immersive displays offers visitors the rare opportunity to get up close with ...
Machine Gun Carrier LP.2 — The Universal Carrier During the early years of tracked carrier development in the late 1930’s there were initially several different types of vehicle that varied slightly from one another according to their design ...
Valentine Mk.III Tank In New Zealand Service Developed by Vickers in the late 1930’s the ‘Infantry Tank Mk.III, Valentine’ was designed as a tank to support infantry operations, and over the course of the Second World War over 8200 of the type ...
The Foldable Paratrooper Motorcycle - Welbike Designed by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Britain’s wartime covert espionage and sabotage organisation, and built by Excelsior Ltd in Welwyn (Hertfordshire), the Welbike foldable motorcycle ...
WW2 Loyd Carrier Used For Starting Aircraft Conceived by Vivian Loyd as an unarmed and lightly protected general- purpose vehicle, the design was tested in early 1939 by the British Army, who immediately placed an order for 200 units. ...
Ordnance QF 6 Pounder Anti-Tank Gun During the early phase of the Second World War, many British tanks were equipped with the QF 2-pounder gun which had entered service in 1936, and it was also the primary British anti-tank weapon of ...
Ordnance QF 3.7 inch Anti-Aircraft Gun Originally designed in the 1930s and introduced to Royal Artillery units in 1937, a significant number of the Quick Firing 3.7” AA guns were received in New Zealand from Britain in 1942. In total, ...
Ordnance QF 25 Pounder Field Gun Just as the 18-Pounder field gun and 4.5” Howitzer had been developed following the British Army’s experience during the Second Boer War at the end of the 19th century, so too the QF 25-Pounder was ...
Bren Carrier No.2 Mk.I - A Rare Example The first lightweight tracked carrier vehicles built by Vickers-Armstrong in 1934 were designed to carry a machine gun and its crew, or for towing light field guns. Subsequently the design was ...
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