Lancashire Fusilier Posted 3 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 3 February , 2014 Nice pics LF but not a WW1 Motor Vehicle in sight. This is all part of the background information to the photo of the ambulance vehicle in post # 1246, and general WW1 historic information, which hopefully, those interested in WW1 will find interesting. Already, I have more than enough photographs of vehicles in my photo archive to keep this thread going for many years, so there is plenty of time for the trucks and cars with many more to come. Regards, LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Eggs Posted 3 February , 2014 Share Posted 3 February , 2014 These are the details of the RE7 ,possibly like the one on the Napier truck. Crimson Rambler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Eggs Posted 3 February , 2014 Share Posted 3 February , 2014 Well back to my favourite subject Armoured Cars, this is an odd one ,from Mack, it never did make it's way to France,. Crimson Rambler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 3 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 3 February , 2014 Nice pics LF but not a WW1 Motor Vehicle in sight. Just for you, a photograph showing the trolley vehicle used to haul the carriages loaded with shells to and from different parts of the large factory at NFF Chilwell , the photo is dated July 1917. Note the track laid in the factory floor for the wheeled carriages. Regards, LF IWM This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 3 February , 2014 Share Posted 3 February , 2014 Peerless 3 tonners in Salonika. Different radiators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 4 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 4 February , 2014 Well back to my favourite subject Armoured Cars, this is an odd one ,from Mack, it never did make it's way to France,. Crimson Rambler The ' Mack ' Armoured Car was an interesting one off especially made for the 1st Armored ( American spelling ) Motor Battery of the New York State National Guard, which was raised on 18th March, 1916. The Battery's equipment, which included 3 Armoured Cars, 72 Motorcycles, 2 Trucks and a Staff Car, was paid for by a group of wealthy and patriotic New York citizens. The Battery's 3 Armoured Cars, were each built on a different American manufacturer's chassis, one Mack, one White and one Locomobile. The Mack chassis used, was the ' AB ' model introduced in 1914 with a chain drive, which was Mack's first standardized, high volume model series and was available with either a chain drive or a worm drive. The Armoured Cars were each approximately 19' 8" long, 6' 6" wide, and 8' 4" high to the top on the machine gun shields. Their armament consisted of 2 Colt machine guns mounted atop the armoured car behind armoured shields. All 3 armoured hulls were identical, and were built by the Carnegie Steel Corporation. The Battery saw service on the Mexican border in 1916, but the cars became well-known after the US entered the War on 6th April, 1917 as they were widely used in patriotic and fund raising parades and displays. The Battery was not absorbed into the regular army, and disbanded in November 1917. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 4 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 4 February , 2014 The ' Mack ' Armoured Car - different views. LF These images are reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 4 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 4 February , 2014 A period coloured postcard showing all 3 of the 1st Armored Motor Battery of the New York State National Guard's armoured cars and some of their motorcycles. The vehicles are marked ' NGNY ' for National Guard New York. LF This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 4 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 4 February , 2014 The 1st Armored Motor Battery of the New York State National Guard's armoured cars taking part in a Washington D.C. military parade. LF This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 4 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 4 February , 2014 A photo showing all three of the 1st Armored Motor Battery of the New York State National Guard's armoured cars taking part in a military parade. LF This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 4 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 4 February , 2014 The Mack chassis used for the ' Mack ' armoured car, was the ' AB ' model introduced in 1914 with a chain drive, which was Mack's first standardized, high volume model series and was available with either a chain drive or a worm drive. LF This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 4 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 4 February , 2014 One of the 1st Armored Motor Battery of the New York State National Guard's armoured cars, attracts a lot of interest. LF This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Eggs Posted 4 February , 2014 Share Posted 4 February , 2014 Well done LF many thanks for the full back ground on the Mack. Crimson rambler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick Eggs Posted 4 February , 2014 Share Posted 4 February , 2014 More Armoured Cars,Lanchesters of the Russian Armoured Car Division in Asia Minor.Similar vehicles were used by the Russian Army, but Locker -Lampson preferred the Rolls- Royce.Despite repeated appeals for the Rolls- Royce Armoured Cars, however, the Lanchester remained the most common RNAS car on the Eastern Front . Crimson Rambler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 4 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 4 February , 2014 Having grown up not so far from Chilwell, I can still remember stopping in the mid 1970's on a number of occasions to take a look into the site at all of the lined up military vehicles and so have always been quite fascinated in this thread, once Chilwell was mentioned. These latest photos are remarkable and I have certainly never seen them before - many thanks LF for posting. David The factory must have been quite an operation back in WW1, and I had also wondered what those rings were on the top of the shells ( see in posts 1295 & 1303 ) now I can see they were used to hook up batches of shells to the overhead factory crane system enabling a large number of shells to lifted and moved at the same time. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 5 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 5 February , 2014 the Lanchester remained the most common RNAS car on the Eastern Front . Crimson Rambler. RNAS officers of the Armoured Car Expeditionary Force ( Russian Armoured Car Division ) with their Renault Tourer Staff Car and their motorcycles, leading a column of RNAS Lanchester Armoured Cars on the Eastern Front. LF This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 5 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 5 February , 2014 A Column of RNAS Lanchester Armoured Cars of the Armoured Car Expeditionary Force ( Russian Armoured Car Division ) halts on a road somewhere on the Eastern Front while their crews rest. LF These images are reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockdoc Posted 5 February , 2014 Share Posted 5 February , 2014 The factory must have been quite an operation back in WW1, and I had also wondered what those rings were on the top of the shells ( see in posts 1295 & 1303 ) now I can see they were used to hook up batches of shells to the overhead factory crane system enabling a large number of shells to lifted and moved at the same time. LF They'e called lifting eyes and are a standard piece of lifting kit. There's the ring over a base-plate, under which is a screw thread.that would match the thread in the shell casing. They come in various sizes with different safe working loads. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 5 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 5 February , 2014 They'e called lifting eyes and are a standard piece of lifting kit. Keith Keith, This photo of 8 inch shells being armed at Ypres, 1917, shows some shells with the lifting eyes still attached, prior to the their being screwed off and the fuse attached ?. Regards, LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 6 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 6 February , 2014 " The Loneliness of the Long Distance ... ( in this case ) Motorcyclist " an officer on his motorcycle is photographed travelling the desolate wastelands of the Amiens - St. Quentin Road on 16th March, 1917, looking for a suitable location to position his guns. LF IWMQ1858 This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 6 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 6 February , 2014 By 1918, the Amiens - St. Quentin Road had all but disappeared into the local landscape, as seen in this photograph of British Cavalry pausing on the road. LF This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 6 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 6 February , 2014 Another nice photo of the New York State National Guard's armoured cars, including the ' Mack ', taking part in a parade. LF This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 7 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 7 February , 2014 Lorries take a detour around a massive mine crater detonated under the Amiens to St. Quentin Road, the photo shows the road prior to its subsequent total destruction. LF IWM This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 8 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 8 February , 2014 Normally, photographs of WW1 military mobile workshops are those of the ASC ( Army Service Corps ) showing repair work on vehicles. Here is a very interesting group of photographs of an AOC ( Army Ordnance Corps ) mobile workshop mounted on a Thornycroft J Type lorry, showing an AOC unit working repairing and re-assembling field guns. The AOC unit is operating in the Beauval-Amiens area. Also of note, are the different tools and the equipment being used to repair and re-assemble the guns. LF IWM346/8 These images are reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancashire Fusilier Posted 8 February , 2014 Author Share Posted 8 February , 2014 An AOC ( Army Ordnance Corps ) postcard. LF This image is reproduced strictly for non-commercial research and private study purposes as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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