Item STERN 4/2 - Photographs, 1915-1916, of the RNAS Armoured Car Division Clement Talbot Works, London, and of the testing of experimental vehicles

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STERN 4/2

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Photographs, 1915-1916, of the RNAS Armoured Car Division Clement Talbot Works, London, and of the testing of experimental vehicles

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  • 1915 - 1916 (Creation)

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68 photographs

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Collection of photographs relating to Stern's service during World War One, falling into two groups, first those within a numbered range, 218 to 243 relating to the Royal Naval Air Service Armoured Car Division, Clement Talbot Works, Wormwood Scrubs, showing armoured cars, lorries, motorcycles, wagons, ambulances, stores, guns and personnel; second, an unnumbered group showing Royal Naval Air Service armoured cars and lorries and the testing of experimental vehicles of the Admiralty Landships Committee, including Rolls Royce armoured car and armoured lorry equipped with 3 pounder gun, Diplock Pedrail, Pedrail hand machine with infantry shield, Bullock Creeping Grip tractors, Killen-Strait tractor, the 'Tritton' or 'Number 1 Lincoln machine' 'Little Willie', Tritton's trench crossing machine and 'Mother' (the prototype heavy tank with all round track). 68 photographs

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Originals of photocopied personal correspondence (Section 1/17) are at Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone.

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