Hello there! My name is Stuart, and if you haven't guessed from my handle, I'm kind of into the Duplex Drive of DD tanks.
For 8 years I managed Fritton Lake, in Norfolk, where the DD crews underwent their elementary / fresh water training. I since have spent a further 3 years researching much of the back story connected with these tanks, and produced a small website : www.duplexdrivetanks.co.uk.
I've put on this site a number of pages covering the 3 training wings at Fritton (freshwater), Stokes Bay (saltwater) and Burton upon Stather (River crossing). Pehaps some of the information is familiar to many of you, however I have added a number of images - particularly some of the training sites - that you may be less familiar with.
I am still avidly processing this information, and currently investigating the early trials of the Tetrarch in 1941.
I presently work for Norfolk Museums Service, and also in a local school. However I am hopeful get to some major UK events later this year, or perhaps next year. I am in the middle of a project constructing a small timber sherman complete with pneumatic operated screen, howeve for now, I have added my lego mock up, convrted from a couple of challenger sets (hence why the turret gun is more like a firefly than a M4A4!!