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Ironsides


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I dont think sowink  they appear to have been males, this pic is of a MKV Female Tadpole (caption Ses MKIV)from "Tanks Marks I-V Profile 003" Chambelain,Ellis..... bieng tank experts you really do expect something better from them as its obviously a MKV... as far as Im aware this was purely an unsuccesfull experiment.... the MKV* lengthened hull was succesfully used instead....

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-- Edited by Ironsides on Monday 15th of July 2013 11:03:51 AM



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Might be a dumb question but were there any females MkIVs  converted into tadpoles? Have not seen any pictures of these experimental tanks.



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I haven't seen it myself, but I recall clearly that in another thread on the forum, someone specified that a particular book has a photo of a MK IV female tadpole towing something - an piece of arty, I think. Will have a look and post a link to the thread, at least you'll know the book to look for.

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"In March of 1918 a Male and Female MkIV were fitted with Tadpole tails. The work was started on 6th March 1918, the first tail being fitted by the 18th; the second, strengthened tail was fitted by the 23rd.

A Mark V female, 9277 was also fitted with a tadpole tail, (X67.p29) possibly at Foster's yard, where this tank had given a (Tadpole tailless) demonstration to King George V."

Courtesy of: https://sites.google.com/site/landships/home/generaltankinformation/tadpole-tanks

TCT is probably remembering photo of Mk IV Female towing 60pdr and caisson on sleds. It's on p86 of The Landships of Lincoln, and is credited to Bovington.



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James H wrote:

"In March of 1918 a Male and Female MkIV were fitted with Tadpole tails. The work was started on 6th March 1918, the first tail being fitted by the 18th; the second, strengthened tail was fitted by the 23rd.

A Mark V female, 9277 was also fitted with a tadpole tail, (X67.p29) possibly at Foster's yard, where this tank had given a (Tadpole tailless) demonstration to King George V."

Courtesy of: https://sites.google.com/site/landships/home/generaltankinformation/tadpole-tanks

TCT is probably remembering photo of Mk IV Female towing 60pdr and caisson on sleds. It's on p86 of The Landships of Lincoln, and is credited to Bovington.

 Thanks for all the information. As I fancy a change to the Emhar representation  my tadpole will  female version around August 1918



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I think James is right, I couldn't find the thread I mentioned but "The Landships of Lincoln" is the title I was thinking of. As I said before, I have not seen this photo myself, but whoever mentioned that reference said it was a female Mk IV tadpole.

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Well done James that will teach me to look further then out of date armor bookswink

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-- Edited by Ironsides on Friday 19th of July 2013 07:44:06 AM

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