RC Tank Warfare community hobby forum

Has any one come across this Tank before my friends uncle used to drive one these are his photos







I tried to show you the back of the photo

Hi Stewart,
Nice photos there . They look like Valentine tanks.The crew named the tank Blenhelm like most crews they gave there tanks names. Brian...

Hallo Stewart. The Tank in the Photographs is a British Vickers MK111/3 Valentine which was an Infantry Tank, it differed primarily from the MK 1 and 11/2 by having a three man turret,
The earlier variants having two men turrets, it was armed with a 2 Pdr Main gun and a 7.92 BESA MG,
The turret being internally very small meant that when the Main Gun was changed with the introduction of the Valentine VIII/8 to a 6 Pdr it had to revert to a two man turret crew,
Interestingly whilst it is widely believed only Soviet Tanks had diesel engines the Valentine had an "AEC 131 BHP" diesel engine Later variants having a "GMC 138 BHP" Diesel engine. I hope that helps.
Shaun.

Thank you for the help ref my friends uncle's Tank my friend thinks that was the make and I didn't know

Great photos. The story goes that the Valentine was the only British tank where the Russians asked for more. Very good runner but, as always undergunned.
regards
Dug

Great photos. The story goes that the Valentine was the only British tank where the Russians asked for more. Very good runner but, as always undergunned.
regards
Dug

Great photos. The story goes that the Valentine was the only British tank where the Russians asked for more. Very good runner but, as always undergunned.
regards
Dug