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  1. Are ASB needed for this British tank spec?

    It Was Lord Nuffield after all and he did help out various members of parliment with loans (backhanders).

  2. Are ASB needed for this British tank spec?

    They were a maintenence nightmare, difficult to work on in place and took half a day to get out according to my uncle. A couple of hundred miles and they had to be rebuilt.

  3. Are ASB needed for this British tank spec?

    https://books.google.ca/books?id=AiEDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&lr=&rview=1&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false Page 82 gun synchronization, could it be invented sooner?

  4. Are ASB needed for this British tank spec?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Hobart In 1934, Hobart became Brigadier of the first permanent armoured brigade in Britain and Inspector Royal Tank Corps. He had to fight for resources for his command because the British Army was still dominated by conservative cavalry officers. German...

  5. Are ASB needed for this British tank spec?

    The Liberty Engine lost 20% of its produced hp to the terrible chain drive system and overheated in British winters!

  6. Are ASB needed for this British tank spec?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QF_3-inch_20_cwt

  7. Are ASB needed for this British tank spec?

    Why fit one when two will do? http://members.shaw.ca/millerww2/ww2/history/InDefenseofBritishTanks.htm Well thought out article about WW2 British tanks.

  8. Are ASB needed for this British tank spec?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Lion The Napier Lion was a 12-cylinder broad arrow configuration aircraft engine built by Napier & Son starting in 1917, and ending in the 1930s. A number of advanced features made it the most powerful engine of its day, and kept it in production long after...

  9. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 2

  10. Did the British do more damage to China or India?

    Of course there were never any famines in India before the British!

  11. Battle of Britain WI: All Spitfires in 11 Group

    Nuffield had the Vickers/Supermarine technical drawing re-drawn with looser specks and larger tolerances by the Castle Bromwich technical drawing department as he thought that his workforce could not meet the existing standards, which explains a lot about British car manufacturing. This took...

  12. Silly AHC: Give Sealand some form of actual land!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_island Build up a rubble wall and dredge up sand & mud to fill it around the tower bases.

  13. AHC : The British Counterattack

    It was the illegal immigrants from the germanies that screwed everything up!

  14. PC: CHIEFTAIN/CHALLENGER 1 & 2's used by Australia and Canada?

    http://www.network54.com/Forum/47209/thread/1339248075/Leyland+L60+engine+reliability copied from above site. L60 myths June 9 2012, 6:01 PM While the L60 was undoubtedly a poor engine it has generated many urban myths around it. I have seen its parentage linked to Deltic diesel engine as...

  15. AHC : The British Counterattack

    Not have the barbarian knukle draggers destroy all the Saxon Shore forts, and extend them north. http://www.athenapub.com/saxshor1.htm
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