Vickers fax.

[Lynn Eades]

Thanks Ron and Richard, If I had a couple of spare fortunes, I'd look seriously at that. She's a pretty little machine.
How did he make the track?

[Ron Pier]

All cast from scratch I guess. I had a good look at them and a pleasant chat with the builders. But I feel it's the sort of thing you build for fun or out of interest for yourself. In my opinion, the labour costs outweigh the value of such a replica..........Unless of course Steven Spielberg needs one for a movie with Bruce Willis. Ron

[Hans Mulder]

The track was my first thought as well...if he can make track for it...he could make track for a UC...

[RichardT10829]

The casting of the track for the UC is the easy bit.... Drilling the lugs / machining not so much

[Lynn Eades]

Richard, I don't think they had to drill the lot. I think the holes were cast into the links. They just had to be finished. Still tricky. The track has to be the hardest part, IMHO.

[Mark Cornwell]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

Richard, I don't think they had to drill the lot. I think the holes were cast into the links. They just had to be finished. Still tricky. The track has to be the hardest part, IMHO.

The people that sold the tankette didn't build it, it was purchased in Lancashire along with all the drawings, tooling, patterns for casting and a spare hull.

And the vehicle although registered as built in the Twenties was built sometime between 2000-2010

The holes for the track pins were not cast in, instead they were drilled out on a sliding jig.

[Jon Bradshaw]

I never would have thought of making the entire body lift off for maintenance on it's own hydraulic/air cylinders! The tank looks good and I hope it runs across the fields fast. Looks like a nice clean build. The turret is a dummy? I can't see where a gunner sits?

[RichardT10829]

I suppose once you have made a jig tool to drop the link in and centre the drill, it's not too bad, but I bet it's costly and labour intensive... :-)

[Lynn Eades]

I would anticipate the biggest problem to be the drill running off during deep drilling. I say this with no knowledge or experience in this area.

[Jon Bradshaw]

The links were cast and would have needed only a simple reaming to clean out the debris from the casting process. If you look at some of the links they may still have rough edges where cast metal oozed out a crack of a miss aligned mold. (at least some of mine have that).

Hope that helps.

[clarkray]

Hi all.I have restarted working on this unit after a long move from NY to IN.
I am going to try some pictures.

[eddy8men]

nice project
I found this turret on the net recently and I will try and recover it when the weather picks up so there might be another light tank around soon

[clarkray]

Hi Rick,if you could post some close up pictures and maybe some dimensions on the view ports it would be helpful as I do not have much on them.
Thanks Ray.

[Jon Bradshaw]

Well after a few issues with just about everything, I have my "Vickers tank" T16 hull up and running. It was a successful first off road test, running for about an hour over varied terrain. It went over hills and dirt piles as well as one small but very deserving tree. Now on to the armour and finishing work this winter so that she will be ready to do some real driving next year.

[clarkray]

Nice Jon,now you are ready to go!I am in the process of installing the cannon.
This is what it looks like now.

[Mike Cecil]

Nice job, Clark.

Lynn: I think you'll find the second vehicle in the two images you posted is an Italian CV33. There is an example in the CWM. One captured example went to Australia, but alas, long gone like most of the WW2 captured vehicles that ended up in Oz.

The other, as already stated, is the little UE carrier.

Mike

[clarkray]

This is my mirror image interpretation of a 1937 Vickers .