Carden-Loyd limited production carriers
 

I always delight in finding pictures of limited production, one-offs, and prototype vehicles that are seldom seen. During a recent delve (is that a noun or verb?) into the internet I found a series of pictures of Carden-Loyd carrier prototypes. I'm not sure if these are rare or unknown models so I thought I'd share them with the MLU community in an effort to determine if any were used operationally. The first shot I've posted has combined all the pictures into one.

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First pic:

Next pic
 

Pic two:

Pic three
 

next:

Pic four
 

another:

Pic five
 

next:

Pic 6
 

Lastly:

Here's an interesting US prototype vehicle from a 1920 artillery journal.

They refer to it as the reconnaissance tractor. There's several more pix of it being tested.

Thingy
 

It looks like a motorised drain tray with the famous American "thingy" (the name escapes me)suspension that the soviets adopted.

Its not Christie suspension Lynn,
 

The previous pic with the trailer shows the suspension of the midle wheels in silhouette: looks more like a centre mounted leaf spring with the inner wheels at each end. (Also seems much smaller in scale than the christie wheels).

Rob