iwm photos

[Bill Murray]

I too am learning how to navigate the IWM and here are two items I came up with that are interesting from the "interwar" perspective.

Go to the site, select photos, then collections, if I remember right.

Two of the groupings are as follows.

6000-02 KID
4700-101 British Training for WWII
Those will give you a wealth of armour specifically but also a lot of the late 1920's 6X4 vehicles as well as a lot of tractors etc.

There are also some photos from the 1930's.

Based on what I saw in the KID grouping, there must be hundreds if not thousands more images if only we could unlock the code. They seem to have photographed every possible variant of every vehicle they tested but it only amounts to a few hundred photographs in that series and I know there are many more somewhere.

I really hope there are some others here on the forum that have identified "key" collection ID's that will pare down the winnowing process.

As others have posted here, there are a lot of "technicians" as opposed to "historians" that are sorting out the data/photo base.

I found vehicle photos when selecting "trans-jordan" for example, where there was no mention of a vehicle make but perhaps more a "purpose" ie medical unit or bridge building unit etc.

Given the energy on this Forum, I hope we can sort out the thought process that the curators used to identify this most amazing photographic data base.

I will post here a photo of one of the more unusual vehicles I found today.