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    The Vickers-Carden-Loyd light amphibious tank (designated the A4E11 and A4E12 by the War Office), was a series of British experimental pre-World War II...
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    idea. One of these was Carden-Loyd Tractors Ltd, a firm founded by Sir John Carden and Vivian Loyd and later purchased by Vickers-Armstrongs. Besides one-man...
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    The Vickers 6-ton tank or Vickers Mark E, also known as the "Six-tonner", was a British light tank designed in 1928 in a private project at Vickers. Though...
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    1928, the British firm of Vickers-Armstrong started promoting another design by John Carden and Vivien Loyd as the "six-ton tank". Although rejected by the...
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    tankettes by Carden-Loyd Tractors, Ltd., were promising enough that the company was purchased by Vickers-Armstrong. They developed light, floating tanks to General...
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    The Vickers T-15 light tank, full designation Char Léger de Reconnaissance Vickers-Carden-Loyd Mod.1934 T.15, was a light 4-ton tank of the Belgian Army...
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    the army's light tank. By that point Carden-Loyd was part of Vickers-Armstrong. Only a few of the first light tanks were built and, although never issued...
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    originally developed from the prototype T2 light tank built by the Rock Island Arsenal, which had a Vickers-type leaf spring suspension. The suspension...
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    Tankette (redirect from Small tank)
    Carden Loyd Morris-Martel United States Marmon-Herrington CTLS - not officially designated tankettes Ford 3-Ton M1918 Infantry fighting vehicle Tank classification...
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    The Independent A1E1 is a multi-turreted tank that was designed by the British armaments manufacturer Vickers between the First and Second World Wars....
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    amphibious first emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the 1930s with introduction of vehicles such as Vickers-Carden-Loyd Light...
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    Army trialled the Vickers-Carden-Loyd Light Amphibious Tank but did not adopt it for service use. An order was placed with Vickers by the USSR for a small...
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    John Carden of Vickers-Armstrongs had produced a "Woolworth" medium tank to a 1934 specification (General Staff number A.9) for a close support tank, using...
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  • 3-pounder gun (that could fire both high-explosive and anti-tank shells), while the Vickers Carden-Lloyd machine gun carriers influenced the tankette concept...
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    Vickers-Carden Loyd amphibious tanks each, with 20 Vickers 6-Ton tanks being distributed among the 1st and 2nd battalions. Also, 29 Carden Loyd Mark VI tankettes...
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    with the domestic development of a new vehicle based largely on the Carden-Loyd Mk VI tankette design to address the deficiencies of wheeled armored...
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    few T-28 tanks but did not begin series production of any tank. Latvia and Lithuania imported a few light vehicles such as Vickers-Carden-Loyd tankette...
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    T-27 (redirect from T-27 tank)
    of the Carden Loyd tankette, bought under license from the United Kingdom in 1930. The Soviets were not fully satisfied with the Carden Loyd design and...
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    in tank design, the first American tanks to see service were copies of French light tanks and a joint heavy tank design with the United Kingdom. In the...
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    The Vickers Medium Mark II was a British medium tank built by Vickers during the interwar period of the First and Second World Wars. The Medium Mark II...
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    Vickers built the Vickers Light Tank. but the project was abandoned in 1922 in favour of a more conventional design: the Vickers Light Tank Mark I, that would...
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    Gun Carriers ( a common name describing a family of light-armoured tracked vehicles built by Vickers-Armstrong), that was utilized by the Israelis. Bren...
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    armed tanks were needed to overrun enemy positions and approached Sir John Carden at Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd to design and begin work on a tank based on...
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    super-heavy tank and the heavy tank and gradually transitioned into the main battle tank. Medium tanks of the interwar period included the British Vickers Medium...
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    Johnson of the Tank Design Department derived such a type from the Medium Mark D. In competition Vickers built the Vickers Light Tank. The Vickers design still...
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    The T-38 amphibious scout tank was a Soviet amphibious light tank that saw service in World War II. Developed as a modernized version of the earlier T-37A...
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    The T1 light tank was a United States Army light tank of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was only built in prototype form. The tank was an Army design...
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    the 1920s, with the British one-off Vickers A1E1 Independent influencing the Soviet T-35. The prototype T-100 tank was briefly tested alongside the other...
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    based in Chiba prefecture tested a variety of European light tanks, including six Carden Loyd tankettes and several Renault FTs, and a decision was reached...
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    CV-35 tankettes based on this Vickers-Carden-Lloyd concept. A native Italian design was the L6/40, a very small light tank with a 20 mm Breda cannon and...
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