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does anyone have any photos they would be willing to share of any factories producing tanks in WW1
does anyone have any photos they would be willing to share of any factories producing tanks in WW1
When i worked at Metro Cammell there was a shop and they still called it the Cromwell stores,and in the finishing shops called the Avenue there was still the sighting targets to align the guns on the tanks,that was upto 4 years agoMau-reece
White Knob, WednesburyReally just as an aside . I went to school in Wednesbury in the 50's It overlooked the back of the Patent Shaft Metro Camel works where there was a huge mound of white china clay, man made but a material local to the area. The Shaft made Valentine Tanks in WW2 , there was a story that the White Knob as it was called was used to test tanks . If so it was a formidable obstacle with30 degree slopes , a height of about 80 foot and when wet a slippery clay surface. Whether just a fantasy or not it was a story repeated in my family
A renovated MkIV tank which was made at Metropolitan Carriage is on display in Lincoln where the first tank was produced.View attachment 158472
Had World War One continued into 1919 as most people expected, then the Mark V** would have been a significant tank. Nine hundred had been ordered from the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company, from their Saltley (Birmingham) Works in the proportion of 750 male and 150 female.
With the war coming to an end, only 25 were completed and none of these saw action.