morrisc8 Posted 18 August , 2023 Author Share Posted 18 August , 2023 (edited) Link to a great website on a few captured british tanks in german use. The two photos are from my collection. In French but you can google it in english. https://forum.pages14-18.com/viewtopic.php?t=52737&hilit=lyric&sid=4b0e0415eee62def725330762d51bada Edited 19 August , 2023 by morrisc8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johntaylor Posted 18 August , 2023 Share Posted 18 August , 2023 What an unbelievable collection of photos - many thanks for pointing this out, as I've never seen the site before. Fortunately my French is just about good enough to make sense of it. In any case, the photos speak for themselves. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 19 August , 2023 Author Share Posted 19 August , 2023 Tank at the workshop at Saint-Chamond. Original photo from my collection. Not a good photo but getting hard to find an original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 20 August , 2023 Author Share Posted 20 August , 2023 (edited) Postcard from my collection shows a captured British tank used by the germans blown up. Good view of the inside. Might be the one knocked out at Tahure . Edited 20 August , 2023 by morrisc8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johntaylor Posted 20 August , 2023 Share Posted 20 August , 2023 All these are completely new to me. Thanks again! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matlock1418 Posted 20 August , 2023 Share Posted 20 August , 2023 On 10/08/2023 at 13:51, johntaylor said: t looks as though the right-hand one has a Mark I steering mechanism, and the left-hand one has an unusual superstructure which I've never seen before. It does rather look like a steering mechanism, but as for the superstructure ??? On 10/08/2023 at 13:51, johntaylor said: The writing on the back must be in French but I can't read the words between "Tank" and "un train". I wondered if the second word was "dessous" but it doesn't really fit. Tank pris derriere un train = Tank taken from behind a train, I feel pretty sure To me in the foreground also looks like the buffers between a loco and a carriage or between two carriages. M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 21 August , 2023 Author Share Posted 21 August , 2023 (edited) British tank captured by the germans. Postcard from my collection. shell used as a mine in the foreground. Edited 21 August , 2023 by morrisc8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 23 August , 2023 Author Share Posted 23 August , 2023 Original photos from my collection. Lotte and Liesel captured British tanks used by the Germans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 23 August , 2023 Author Share Posted 23 August , 2023 Added a bit of colour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matlock1418 Posted 23 August , 2023 Share Posted 23 August , 2023 Thank you for posting these photos and for your colourisations too. So much more than a war in black & white. M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 23 August , 2023 Author Share Posted 23 August , 2023 (edited) Thank you M. One more from my collection on glass. Edited 23 August , 2023 by morrisc8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Open Bolt Posted 25 August , 2023 Share Posted 25 August , 2023 On 21/08/2023 at 20:37, morrisc8 said: shell used as a mine in the foreground This is great - presumably every wooden square conceals an up-pointed shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 25 August , 2023 Author Share Posted 25 August , 2023 (edited) I have this original photo on glass taken by a army doctor. Has the number B7 on the front. Anyone have any info on this tank. Photo might have been taken at the end of the war? Edited 25 August , 2023 by morrisc8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 29 August , 2023 Author Share Posted 29 August , 2023 One more from my collection. French training on a British tank that they gave them in late 1918. The British did supply a few tanks and they were still around in 1940 but were scrap by then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidearm Posted 3 September , 2023 Share Posted 3 September , 2023 On 10/08/2023 at 12:47, morrisc8 said: One more original photo came in the post. Two tanks next to a railway. Could be at a workshop? Looks like a wheel behind the tank on the right. The tank on the left is a Tank Mark I Male, that on the right also a Tank Mark I. The "superstructure" is the girder installed above the hull to take the weight of the sponsons as they're fitted and removed. I am pretty sure this photo has been reproduced the wrong way around, judging by the cover for the machine gun between the driver and commander's visors. This should be offset to the port side, but in the photo it's offset to the starboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidearm Posted 3 September , 2023 Share Posted 3 September , 2023 On 19/08/2023 at 11:39, morrisc8 said: Tank at the workshop at Saint-Chamond. Original photo from my collection. Not a good photo but getting hard to find an original. This is the most interesting of your photos, though it is already known to me. It shows Experimental Machine A (EMA) at the Saint Chamond works, where it was being fitted with the St Chamond petrol electric transmission prior to the Oldbury trials. It wasn't completed in time for the trials and I believe never returned to England, though the installation of the transmission was eventually completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidearm Posted 3 September , 2023 Share Posted 3 September , 2023 On 29/08/2023 at 10:30, morrisc8 said: One more from my collection. French training on a British tank that they gave them in late 1918. The British did supply a few tanks and they were still around in 1940 but were scrap by then. A Tank Mark V* Male in French service. Britain supplied France with 87 of these tanks, and another 13 Females. They are well photographed and all their serial numbers are known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 3 September , 2023 Author Share Posted 3 September , 2023 (edited) Thank you sidearm for the info . The back of the Saint Chamond works photo. I have put the photo the other way round. [ photo taken from the railway track ] The original is the first photo i put up of it. I do have a few photos of the French use of the British tanks most taken in 1940 taken by the Germans. Edited 3 September , 2023 by morrisc8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 9 September , 2023 Author Share Posted 9 September , 2023 Original photo taken by a German officer of F22 Flying Fox. The tank went over the bridge and it gave way and fell into the canal. Photo from my collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 14 September , 2023 Author Share Posted 14 September , 2023 (edited) Postcard from my collection 2nd photo. Colour one on glass . shell used as a mine , same tank as posted on 19th and 21 Aug. Edited 14 September , 2023 by morrisc8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 17 September , 2023 Author Share Posted 17 September , 2023 Bit of an odd photo of what looks like a us navy guy with a ships anchor in front of two tanks. Photo from my collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TullochArd Posted 17 September , 2023 Share Posted 17 September , 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, morrisc8 said: Bit of an odd photo of what looks like a us navy guy with a ships anchor in front of two tanks. Photo from my collection. A four prong grapnel anchor with fixed ring. The picture perhaps depicts some long lost early version of a self recovery ground anchor? It was amazing what the Navy and Engineers could do with a fixed point in terms of moving the apparently immovable. The US Army was new to tanks in the Great War but not averse to applying common sense solutions to recognised problems. Odd ...... no doubt. Both tanks appear to be well damaged. Edited 17 September , 2023 by TullochArd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Davies Posted 17 September , 2023 Share Posted 17 September , 2023 The anchor/grappling hook was used to drag barbed wire out of the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TullochArd Posted 17 September , 2023 Share Posted 17 September , 2023 1 minute ago, Gareth Davies said: The anchor/grappling hook was used to drag barbed wire out of the way. TVM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morrisc8 Posted 18 September , 2023 Author Share Posted 18 September , 2023 One more from my collection. Near Arras. That`s all the info i have on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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