Snapper Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 There's a Land Rover and a Ford Transit in bits of the back to back 633 Squadron and Mosquito Squadron. We are getting off Topic... Worst British vehicle? haven't a clue....interesting point about the Covenanter. See lots of them on Exercise Bumper in 1941... M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormin Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Here's my vote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenanter_tank So bad they didn't let them out of the country. Instead, troops trained on them in the UK, learning basic non-tank-specific skills then converted to decent tanks. Seems as though the pace of war time developments over took it. The original idea for a low profile seems good, less of a target than the more successful Sherman. f there hadn't been the huge acceleration in armour thickness and gun power of the axis tanks it may have made it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Covenanter looked fantastic but had some 'interesting' design issues. It was not as bad as many accounts make out as most of its systems were used more or less succesfully in other vehicles. It did have a propensity to overheat however and as, at the time, armoured warfare was being conducted in the desert, it was deemed sensible to keep it for training in the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefano Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 For one reason or another, most British tanks were pretty dire during the second world war, but going from my fathers recollections the Guy Ant was apparantly quite a ghastly contraption. He used to say that a Morris CS8 felt like a Rolls Royce in comparison, which is really saying something....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 He used to say that a Morris CS8 felt like a Rolls Royce in comparison, which is really saying something....... The Rolls Royce pickup ever caught on - and far too expensive for the army :whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berna2vm Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Here's my vote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenanter_tank So bad they didn't let them out of the country. Instead, troops trained on them in the UK, learning basic non-tank-specific skills then converted to decent tanks. I think I am with you on this one. No product of the Associated Equipment Company could be judged as the worst British vehicle of WW2...Conversley the Matador was probably the best British vehicle of WW2!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 (edited) The Rolls Royce pickup ever caught on - and far too expensive for the army :whistle: A friend of mine, sadly no longer with us, used to tell us that whist constructing a grass airfield (Milton Street, Sussex) he and his pals commandeered a local bigwig's RR and gleefully hacked the back off to fit a water tank in it's place! Edited October 14, 2009 by gritineye spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefano Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 (edited) The Rolls Royce pickup ever caught on - and far too expensive for the army :whistle: Stick a couple of aeroscreens on it and a set of trackgrips and nobody would know the difference from a CS8 Edited October 14, 2009 by Stefano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radek Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 quite mad with aircraft turret. :nut: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Looks like a turret from the B.P. Defiant!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Looks like a turret from the B.P. Defiant!! Which could be a contender for "Worst British Aircraft of WW2" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Which could be a contender for "Worst British Aircraft of WW2" I'd put it a close second behind the Fairey Battle. A single-engined bomber with the same engine as a fighter? I don't think so. At least the Defiant got a short reprieve as a night fighter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REME 245 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Radek What book or publication does this picture appear in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Could it not be argued that some of these vehicles mentioned were either built at the start of WW2 or were quickly put into service following the retreat from Dunkirk? The advance in technology over the next five years obviously brought with it the advance in vehicle design meaning those that had been in service at the start of the war could possibly have been the worst? Hopefully you can see what I'm getting at :sweat::-D:yay: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Could it not be argued that some of these vehicles mentioned were either built at the start of WW2 or were quickly put into service following the retreat from Dunkirk? The advance in technology over the next five years obviously brought with it the advance in vehicle design meaning those that had been in service at the start of the war could possibly have been the worst? Hopefully you can see what I'm getting at :sweat::-D:yay: :yay: my post made it on then before big crash last night, although it wasn't showing as the last post in this thread just as I checked the British Vehicles sub-forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 .......if there hadn't been the huge acceleration in armour thickness and gun power of the axis tanks it may have made it. mmmhhhh.:undecided:..now pardon me.......... but...isn't that a little like saying "if gunpowder had never been invented, castles would still be worth having".........??????? those beastly Germans!...fancy doing something like that what?!?!...they've only gone and built a tank with thicker armour and a bigger gun than us! ..damn it all to harry I say !....it just isn't on you know !...that's simply not playing fair !..:D:D:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Could it not be argued that some of these vehicles mentioned were either built at the start of WW2 or were quickly put into service following the retreat from Dunkirk? The advance in technology over the next five years obviously brought with it the advance in vehicle design meaning those that had been in service at the start of the war could possibly have been the worst? Hopefully you can see what I'm getting at :sweat::-D:yay: Fair point. I read once, a long time ago (probably 1970s) and the source is long gone, that 20 years' peacetime development can be concluded in six months during wartime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Could it not be argued that some of these vehicles mentioned were either built at the start of WW2 or were quickly put into service following the retreat from Dunkirk? The advance in technology over the next five years obviously brought with it the advance in vehicle design meaning those that had been in service at the start of the war could possibly have been the worst? Hopefully you can see what I'm getting at :sweat::-D:yay: But then again, the PzKpfw 4 was in production before the war, and stayed in production until the bitter end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chambers101 Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 The Terrapin?. The british answer to the DUKW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmal Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 A land-Rover made it into WW2 in "Ice Cold in Alex" but that is the only wartime one I know of! There was one hiding behind a bush, and a WWII Axis forces Saracan, in the film `633 Squadron ` Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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