[ASLML] 3 lber Gun Question

[David Olie]

Paul wrote:


> Actually the Mk II Medium Tank is the tank I am looking at.  According to
> Ellis and Chamberlain it did see action in NA during the late summer 40
> through the spring of 41.
O.K., that would explain the photo.  I always suspected that the Vickers
Medium would have been sent to NA, but I've never come across any accounts
of it being used in action, apart from the defences of Tobruk.  I have also
seen a photo of it being used in training in the UK in 1940-41 alongside a
Matilda II.
In this case, you would definitely call the gun a 47 with Basic TK# 10.

> Brits were scrambling for whatever armor was available and this was the
tank
> that was made obsolete the most recent so was available in some numbers.
This seems reasonable, but I've never heard of it before.  BTW, "in some
numbers" would be fairly low; there were no more than 100 built.

> BTW it was practically brimming with MG, 6 in all.
True enough.
After some research, I'd give this tank the following Vehicle Listing:
Name & Type - Vickers Medium Mk II MT
Radio - Yes
WGT - 13
BVP - debatable, somewhere around 40
RF - also debatable, but around 1.5 (NA only)
Dates - 1930 - 41 (Mk I - 1926 - 36)
Size - -1
AF - 1/0
TA - None
OT - No
CS - 6
MP - 10 (Red)
GP - L
GT - T
MA - T47
ROF - 1
B# - No real idea, but probably B11 to reflect old ammo stocks
IF - Yes
BMG - 4 x 2
CMG - 4
AAMG - Don't know.  Probably not, but apart from the two side MGs, I don't
know how to account for the sixth MG, which I can't see in the cutaway
diagram I have.
SA - 4 x 2 MGs (See German Vehicle note 66 for CAs)
Am - Normal (AP & HE)
s# - No real idea
sD - No real idea
PP/T# - None

David "notes to you" Olie