Which tank is this from?

[servicepub (RIP)]

Can anyone ID the tank that would have used a 6-pdr and a Besa? I assume that this plate is from the Mantlet?
C

[tankbarrell]

Might be Crusader III. Centaur and Cromwell have a mounting No2, Valentine uses a different one again.

It fits onto the cradle itself, not the mantlet.

[Mike Cecil]

Clive,

Its from the weapon mounting that bolts to the inside face of the mantlet.

Mike

[servicepub (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Clive,

Its from the weapon mounting that bolts to the inside face of the mantlet.

Mike

Thanks Mike,
Do you know which model tank this would be? I don't know the Brit stuff but I suspect that there were not many that mounted a 6-pdr and BESA in the same cradle.
C

[Mike Cecil]

Valentine Mk X
Churchill Mk III

are both possibles. I don't have the manuals for these two to check the Mounting nomenclature, but both had a BESA coax to a 6-pdr main armament.

Mike

[tankbarrell]

Valentine Mk X uses a No 4 mounting, I don't have anything on Churchill III to check.

[Mike Cecil]

Clive,

I have a Churchill Mk V & VI service instruction book, which states, in the gun mounting section:

'The mounting, 6pdr/75mm and BESA MG, No.1 and No.2 Mk.1, either of which can be fitted to the Churchill VI ....' So evidently there was a No.1 Mk.1 and a No.2 Mk.1 mounting.

Maybe that provides a clue? I have manuals for the Churchill V, VI and VII, but not the Mk.III.

Mike