Valentine (?) manual on e-bay

[Richard Farrant]

Originally posted by Tony Smith
I wasn't certain if it was a Valentine or not, hence the (?). The tank certainly had Valentine lines, although those full sand skirts threw me in identifying it.

Hi Tony,
I have a book published by The Tank Museum some years ago, showing a photo of, to quote, "Infantry Tank MkIII, Valentine I at Vickers Armstrong 1941". This is fitted with sand skirts and extra fuel tank on the left hand rear, as picture in manual. Also a point of interest, the book shows the Valentine I to be fitted with an AEC petrol engine, subsequent models from II onwards, were of course AEC and GM diesels. The manual on Ebay lists fuel injection pump on the index page, so is for a Valentine II, I would think.

Richard