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SOUVENIR ISSUE
COMMEMORATING 100 YEARS OF THE TANK
ISSUE 184
SEPTEMBER 2016
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OPENING SHOT!
COVER STORY
Contents
September 2016
NUMBER 184
FRONT COVER
P26, we report from this
year’s War and Peace
Revival.
Telling the tale of Little Willie.
06
REVIEW
happenings from the classic military
The latest
vehicle world.
12
WHEELS AND TRACKS
military
We report on Vienna’s annual
gathering.
15
TANK CREWS
Profiling the brave men who piloted the
early tanks.
COVER STORY
52
SECRET HISTORIES
COVER STORY
Tank refurbs at Russia’s top museum reveal
their hidden past.
20
100 YEARS OF THE TANK
COVER STORY
COVER STORY
Marking the centenary of the first tank battle
and the machines involved.
56
TILBURY SHOW
at War.
This year’s A Village
26
WAR AND PEACE REVIVAL 2016
The highlights of this year’s Kent show.
60
COMING NEXT
in store in next month’s issue.
Find out what’s
38
COMET RECALLED
of WW2 Comet crew
The incredible story
survivors.
69
SHOWTIME
forthcoming military events
A round-up of
and fairs.
MARKET
72
THE MILITARY VEHICLE
the highs and lows
Milweb’s Nigel Hay charts
of the vehicle marketplace.
PRICE
74
MV
listing of
GUIDE
vehicle values.
Our
current
OF
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ECHOES
Guy!
WAR
Just the
46
STREAKER
John Norris profiles the British made enigma.
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OPE N I NG
LITTLE WILLIE
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The first prototype tank was redundant soon after its last demonstration at Hatfield Park on 8 February 1916. That
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said, there is a certain amount of debate about whether it was actually there at all. It was certainly tested in Burton
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Park, Lincoln in December 1915.
It was originally powered by Daimler’s six-cylinder petrol engine complete with its Silent Knight sleeve valves. The
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unit was fitted back to front in Little Willie but the correct way round in production tanks.
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As it sits here, Little Willie is in its final form and complete externally, albeit without its wheel
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fitted to aid stability and steering. The tracks, which are virtually the same
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s those used on the majority of production
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tanks, were invented by William Tritton and Walter Wilson on 22 September 1915 although production was slow so a
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complete set was not fitted to Little Willie until the end of November 1915. Before that the same machine was running
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on Bullock Creeping Grip tracks imported from America. At that time it was trial fitted with a dummy turret and you
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can still see the ring. In its earlier form it was known as the Tritton Machine or the No. 1 Lincoln Machine.
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It was photographed at Dollis Hill, London at the end of the war without its tail and was in the original open air Tank
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Museum at Bovington by 1928 when it was seen by King George V. The damage at the front seems to have been done
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when they tried to tow it by passing a line through the visor, sometime between the wars.
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All that remains of the wheeled tail is the hydraulic lifting mechanism and some of the pulleys. Still,
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as part of tank history it remains a thing of wonderment and indeed an icon in its own right.
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