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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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    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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    headed by N. Tsiets, worked on a tank similar to the British Vickers A1E1 Independent. By July 1932, a prototype of a 35-ton tank with a 76.2 mm tank...
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  • Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth...
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    survives on the Vickers A1E1 Independent at Bovington. Duncan (1973), p. 1 Duncan (1973), p. 2 Duncan 1973, p. 3. Alex, Dan. "Vickers Medium Mark I Medium...
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    future models. The T-28 was in many ways similar to the British Vickers A1E1 Independent tank, which greatly influenced tank design in the period between...
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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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  • Norwegian unit British Army Independent Companies of Foot, British units in the French and Indian Wars Vickers A1E1 Independent, British multi-turreted tank...
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    Soviet T-27, Italian CV-33, German Panzer I and other copies. The Vickers A1E1 'Independent', was a large heavy tank built in 1925. It had a large main turret...
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    turrets, had been common in the 1920s, with the British one-off Vickers A1E1 Independent influencing the Soviet T-35. The prototype T-100 tank was briefly...
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  • experimental Vickers A1E1 Independent produced by Vickers for the British but not adopted. The T-28 was also greatly influenced by the A1E1 Independent. The Kirov...
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    Neubaufahrzeug (both taking some of their inspiration from the 1926 Vickers A1E1 Independent – an idea which was abandoned by the War Office in the late 1920s...
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  • Library specifications and photographs of an experimental tank, the Vickers A1E1 Independent, as well as a new automatic rifle and notes on the organisation...
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    tank gun of British tanks. Vickers Medium Mark I Vickers Medium Mark II Medium Mark III A6E1 Vickers A1E1 Independent Vickers 6-Ton List of tank main guns...
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    multi-turreted tanks—probably influenced by the experimental British Vickers A1E1 Independent of 1926. Those that saw combat during the early part of World War...
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    plates. In September Vickers, given the order to build a prototype, proposed a first design based on the Vickers A1E1 Independent, with the fighting compartment...
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  • Army. The Vickers 6-ton tank was the most successful, being exported or built by other nations under licence. The Vickers A1E1 Independent tank design...
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    the engine. The transmission went to the front to the final drive. The Vickers-Carden-Lloyd type suspension had two three-wheel bogies on leaf spring...
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    by Vickers-Armstrongs. Besides one-man vehicles they also proposed two-man vehicles which turned out to be a more effective and popular idea. Vickers-Armstrongs...
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    prototype T2 light tank built by the Rock Island Arsenal, which had a Vickers-type leaf spring suspension. The suspension was replaced by the superior...
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    Type 91 heavy Type 95 heavy Type 97 Chi-Ni Type 98 Chi-Ho Verdeja Vickers A1E1 Independent Interwar period tanks List of interwar armoured fighting vehicles...
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  • A7E1, A7E2, A7E3) Vickers A1E1 Independent (1 prototype) A3E1 three man tank, "Carrier, Machine gun" A4E1 Carden-Loyd Mk VII A5E1 Vickers 'Carden-Loyd' 3-man...
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    TKS-D tank destroyer 8898 - C2P tractor prototype  Poland  Estonia  Independent State of Croatia  Nazi Germany  Soviet Union[citation needed]  Kingdom...
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    the Mark V was partially replaced by the Vickers Medium Mark I during the mid-1920s. The Vickers A1E1 Independent reached prototype stage in 1926, but it...
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    Siegfried Line (Westwall) on the German border. In 1934, Sir John Carden of Vickers-Armstrongs had produced a "Woolworth" medium tank to a 1934 specification...
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    Type 91 heavy Type 95 heavy Type 97 Chi-Ni Type 98 Chi-Ho Verdeja Vickers A1E1 Independent Interwar period tanks List of interwar armoured fighting vehicles...
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    Type 91 heavy Type 95 heavy Type 97 Chi-Ni Type 98 Chi-Ho Verdeja Vickers A1E1 Independent Interwar period tanks List of interwar armoured fighting vehicles...
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    with the replacement of the six small road wheels with five larger independently sprung road wheels and an additional return roller. The tracks were...
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    Type 91 heavy Type 95 heavy Type 97 Chi-Ni Type 98 Chi-Ho Verdeja Vickers A1E1 Independent Interwar period tanks List of interwar armoured fighting vehicles...
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    development of a practical caterpillar track that provided the necessary independent, all-terrain mobility. In a memorandum of 1908, Antarctic explorer Robert...
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