Bruce Newsome

Can someone tell me when the regular army's first AA brigades were established, from 1st to 6th? I understand from Wikipedia that 1st AA Brigade was established in June 1935, 6th AA Brigade in September 1935, but I can't find information on the other formations.

Can someone tell me when the regular army's first AA brigades were established, from 1st to 6th? I understand from Wikipedia that 1st AA Brigade was established in June 1935, 6th AA Brigade in September 1935, but I can't find information on any in between.

Hi - I discovered a reference to the salary of a subaltern (230 per year) and a Major-General (1,100 per year) around 1935. Can anyone fill in the salaries for the missing ranks: captain, major, Lt-Colonel, colonel, brigadier? (as of 1935 or thereabouts; I don't think inflation was significant)

Has anyone seen data on the reliability of any Soviet, German, Italian, Japanese tanks in WW2? I want to avoid the speculation on online fora; I'm looking for user reports or memoirs or manuals. Useful types of data would be: availability rates, overhaul schedules, average life, mean distance/time between failures.

Does anybody know what is meant by “Troop and Battery Commanders Chargers”? The term was found in a report by 21st Army Group at the end of WW2, reporting on the use of tanks of various models as “Troop and Battery Commanders Chargers” during the previous campaign from D-Day to Germany. Apparently the Stuart was the best in this use.

I am looking for any published memoirs by persons directly involved in the design or production of tanks up to 1945? Say an engineer at Vickers or Metropolitan Carriage recalling their involvement in designing or assembling tanks, or a government inspector of tank deliveries, or a procurer at the Ministry of Supply. I have Macleod Ross' "The Business of Tanks" from 1976 as one example. Does anyone know of any similar memoirs?

Just found in the Leyland Journal of 1935 the cost of a Leyland Octopus lorry when first introduced: 1,225 quid for the short wheelbase, 1,250 for the long wheelbase, plus another 100 for the 8x4 drive and another 150 for a diesel engine. Does anybody have contemporaneous prices for other lorries of the time, like Leyland Hippo?

This could be John Burnett-Stuart (Brooke often misspelt names), but he retired in 1938. Does anyone know if he was recalled?

Can anyone identify a person named "Stuart" of the RAC who Alan Brooke (CIGS) dmissied from his job on 9 December 1941? Brooke refers to "Stuart of the Armoured Corps" in his diaries; the editors indexed the person as "General Stuart".

The Tank Museum holds contract index cards, some of which refer to emergency armoured vehicles and some of these were based on requisitioned vehicles.

I found reference to a trial in early 1942 of "Jefferis multiple bombs" dropped from Blenheim bombers on captured tanks - does anyone know what are these weapons? I guess that Jefferis refers to Millis Jefferis of the R&D department known as MD1.

that's a supposition that deserves confirmation

that's not what it said

so would I, but the War Office listed the AC at 5.75 tons and the lorry at 6 tons for its demonstration of 1926

Thanks Tim. I am still confused why the Peerless armoured car weighed less (5.75 tons) than the unarmoured lorry (6 tons).