VICKERS MK6B's resto

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Signal flag rack??

Do you have a VOL/CES list for the tank? That might provide a clue.

Mike

That's my guess too, located where it is between (signal) flares and what's more than likely a (signal) lamp. Later tanks and armoured cars had provision for signal flags so it's likely the Vickers had them somewhere, and flags also makes sense as the Vickers was designed in an era before reliable radio sets so signal flags would have been used in their stead. What may be different and needs to be investigated, is that this rack (if that's really what it is for) has several slots presumably for signal flags of different types. Later on they were the red/white semaphore style.

Just had a re-look at the wiring diagram. Not only does it call the lamp a signal lamp, the switch is called a signalling lamp key. That to me means a morse key for morse code signalling.