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Old 17-10-19, 18:28
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This is what the tank museum has to say :

The Contract Card is dated 8.4.1936 and gives the T numbers as T1828 to T1840 AND T19821. The last one was delivered separately 26/3/1937 (hence the different T number and the different registration number that you can see in some of the photos DMV 877). The reverse states that 7 were fitted with Zenith Carburettor Type 42 VE.I. and 7 with Solex Carburettor Type 30 ??? FF.I.. It doesn’t say which ones are which though… A copy of the contract card is £5.

I have located a list of the drawing numbers used in the vehicles construction, but I don’t think we have any of those drawings here. Tyne & Wear Archives might have some if they were given any documents from the old Vickers factory before it closed. That’s where we got our drawings from, but as I said, I don’t think we have any for the No.1 Mark 1 MGC.

You can see how they modified the top armour during development to form the shape of the sloped bren carrier.
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