Best British Tank of WW2

The apples and oranges metaphores again Za

 

I agree! Let's discuss which is he prettiest tank! I'm undecided btween the Lt. Tk. Mk VI, or the Cruiser Mk. IV (A13)!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...g/788px-Puckapunyal-Vickers-Light-MkVIA-2.jpg

http://www.pedg.co.uk/choll_pics/7_14_cruis.jpg

And the 2pdr was a great gun then!

Change that to apples and orangotangs!

 

I like the A13 II (mark number makes a big difference, the plain old A13 just doesn't have that 'Flash Gordon' styling), but it's still essentially Crusader and Covenanter's somewhat dumpy older sister, the sleekness isn't quite there yet. Though a large dollop of 'tankishness' is certainly being served up, there's something I don't quite like in the cut of her wheels, overall they give her something of a squint.

As for the Mark VI... awww bless it, as the years pass I fear it's gradually working it's way up to becoming one of my top three in the looks stakes. They actually look quite 'serious' when seen in the flesh pottering about (not that I'd want to go to war in one... or any other vehicle) and they make a pleasing noise.
I'll take one in Malta Stonewall please.


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How about an A30 avenger? Flawed project but I kind of like the look of the thing, slightly brutal round the edges, definitely not a gentleman's vehicle:


If we can step outside WW2 for a moment I've got another soft spot for the Vickers Medium:
Arcane Fighting Vehicles: Vickers Medium
Pretty good, for it's time, and really suits that era of officers in Cavalry boots appearing in official photographs of the machine alongside trilby-wearing designers with astrakhan collars & a couple of dogs somewhere in the shot.
(And Bovington's should be running at this years tank-fest!)

Set myself off again...

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Cheers,
Adam.

 

I was always a big fan of the A13 (something about its design looks kinda futuristic to me..), though I must say that the Mark VI is growing on me too...It certainly looks much more intimidating with the 13mm anti-tank rifle .

 

I have a soft spot for the Vickers 6 ton...quite a best-seller in it's day!

 

One of worst looking British tanks of WW2 as got to be the Challenger Tank !
The A41 is one great looking tank & it would be interesting to see how they would of done against the German Tigers & king tigers

 

Pz IV always have loved the look of all the models

 

I find myself having to agree, I may have some 'unusual' tastes in the vehicles of the period but the A30 Challenger just doesn't do it for me.
What do they say, if it looks right; it is right...
Hmmmm:

I sometimes think they named Challenger 1 & 2 just to help the A30 version sink further into obscurity.

The lesson wasn't exactly learnt though, as illustrated by the postwar Conway & the FV4005 (can't remember if 4005 had a name), :

4004 Conway
(As I know you're wondering, yes, it did nearly tip over if fired to the side )


4005

Sorry, I'm drifting way off WW2 here, though vehicles from that period do have their design roots in lessons of the war, and they perhaps illustrate how hard it can sometimes be to shake off what seems at the time to be 'a good idea'.

Cheers,
Adam.

 

Ditto, was my favorite tank for some time.

 

But what has the Pz IV got to do in a British tank thread?

 

Za started it

 

Hmmm, good idea-blame everything on Za!

Za-The wall street crash was your fault!
Za-the current economic decline in the world today is your fault!
Za-Tomcat talking about Panzers in a British tank thread is your fault!



Only kidding mate! It was PzJgr's fault for the recession-He released to many StuGs onto the market.

 

Ditto.

 

Churchill + 17pdr =

 

Was that a rare conversion? thats probably the first time I've heard of sticking a 17pdr in a Churchill.

 

It's the A43 Super Churchill or Black Prince. It never went into production, but was an equal to the Tiger at least.
Though the Tiger was superior in speed.

 

The Cadman brothers have a Black Prince Hulk, I do hope it gets restored/remade to running condition one day.

 

The Churchill with the 75mm QF was the Churchill VII, the Churchill with the Sherman front turret (not just the gun) was the Churchill NA (North Africa). They were converted Churchill IVs. Btw, the 6pdr QF on the Churchill III and IV was a better anti-tank gun than the 75mm, but the HE round of the 75mm was slightly better, and the ammo more plentiful, so they wanted to take advantage of that.

I'd agree with the Matilda II, it was probably the best tank in the world in 1940.

 

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The Matilda was a great tank in its day and after 1942 served well in the Pacific where its relatively small size and the distribution of armour on the sides and rear made them suitable. The two pounder was never a great gun but would certainly deal with any japanese armour at the ranges encountered.