WW1 Tanks Photos

[Mooyman]

Hi Folks,

Originals WW1 tanks photos: (my collection)










Best regards,

Ricardo.

[Egret]

Hello,
I thought those tanks were big. The man next to one shows they were only 6 or 7 feet high. The last tank looks like it was recovered by the Germans. Do you think this is 1,2 or 3 tanks?
Best Regards,
Chris
aka Egret
New Hampshire
USA

[gregM]

I like your tanks

[Mooyman]

Hi Egret,

Interesting to notice that the shown tanks are British models, being that the first one was captured by the Germans and placed in combat against the Allies - one practical very common one, therefore the Germans falhram in developing a practical tank in World War I.

With this, many units used to advantage those that they obtained to capture or to place again in functioning.

Some had even though arrived to be used for the Feikorps in the combats (after war) against the Communists.

PS. All the photos had been made by Germans.

Regards,

Ricardo.

[McCulloh]

Cool pics. Rick R a few years back had snaps of the German versions of the tank @1918 and maybe a similar shot of tank #1-a recovered British one near Arras. The was an article on the great War Assn. web site a while back tracing captured British and French tanks usage by the Germans.

[Bob Lembke]

Beutepanzer

Guys;

There is a good book on this, Beutepanzer im Ersten Weltkrieg, by Fred Koch, Podzun-Pallas, Freiburg, 1994. Says that six of the nine Abteilungen of combat-ready tanks (five tanks per unit) were Beute-Panzer. I think their use was more due to material resources than the lack of a decent German design. The A7V seemed to perform much like the Mark IV, despite its clumsy appearance (probably a good target, admittedly), but were a drain to make, and they had bundles of captured allied tanks, by 8/3/18 170 Brit tanks. It seems that after making a first 20 A7Vs (15 for combat, five in reserve) they just planned to use allied tanks. The assembly line they set up to re-build them had over 600 staff.

Bob Lembke