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Description: | Black and white prints of early experimental armoured fighting vehicles and air raid incidents in the UK during the Second World War. There are also some shots of the Japanese Surrender signing on board USS MISSOURI, 1945.The detailed vehicles prints depict Rolls Royce armoured cars in 1928 which had received 1920 modifications, a Peerless 25 cwt truck with 1914-18 HA Mounting and Mk1 Gun, a Rolls-Royce experimental truck with a wooden box body, a 13pdr Mark VI gun on a Mk III mounting fitted to a 1914-18 Thornycroft Lorry, and an 18pdr gun fitted onto an FWD Truck of the First World War. Other prints depict Peerless Trucks with a variety of AA mounted guns, an experimental Daimler AA mount for trucks with extending legs, a Crossley armoured car, and Crossley, Morris six wheeled trucks. There is also an experimental Armoured Car based on a 1914 truck chassis, a No. 11 Male Tank from 1928 and experimental Burford-Kegresse Halftrack vehicles being tested on a number of chassis and track types. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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