allanpcameron
Donor
So this is @Claymore's picture of the Carden designed A11 with the turret from a Vickers Commercial with the 2-pdr exported to Latvia.
The questions that arise for me are:
The question is whether that suspension would be adequate for a tank of about 12 tons? I wonder if that was why Leslie Little changed from the Horstmann bogies to the Vickers 6 ton or Dragon suspension, did he believe that the bogies wouldn't cope with the weight?
I'm also wondering because this alternative A11 has the same Meadows engine as the Vickers Mark VIB providing 88hp, rather than the Ford 70hp used OTL, giving about three or four more mph that OTL's 8mph. I'm also saying that the Mark II will have the same AEC engine as the A9 and A10 providing 150hp. Going by my poor maths, that could give the A11 more than 15mph, would that suspension take it do you think?
The other thing looking at it is there's no co-axial machine gun which would probably rule it out as an infantry support tank. Do you think there would be room in the turret for a Vickers followed by a Besa?
Allan
The questions that arise for me are:
The question is whether that suspension would be adequate for a tank of about 12 tons? I wonder if that was why Leslie Little changed from the Horstmann bogies to the Vickers 6 ton or Dragon suspension, did he believe that the bogies wouldn't cope with the weight?
I'm also wondering because this alternative A11 has the same Meadows engine as the Vickers Mark VIB providing 88hp, rather than the Ford 70hp used OTL, giving about three or four more mph that OTL's 8mph. I'm also saying that the Mark II will have the same AEC engine as the A9 and A10 providing 150hp. Going by my poor maths, that could give the A11 more than 15mph, would that suspension take it do you think?
The other thing looking at it is there's no co-axial machine gun which would probably rule it out as an infantry support tank. Do you think there would be room in the turret for a Vickers followed by a Besa?
Allan