Macfie's Landship 1914-15 - Tank Encyclopedia
Dec 3, 2019 · Overlooked by most histories of the era of early armor, Robert Macfie was a visionary who first pressed the use of tracks to the Landships Committee at a time when ‘big-wheel’ machines were seen as the solution to the problems on the Western Front, namely barbed wire and machine guns.
Landship - Wikipedia
A landship is a large land vehicle that travels exclusively on land. Its name is meant to distinguish it from vehicles that travel through other mediums such as conventional ships, airships, and spaceships.
Jehlik’s Armored Vehicle - Tank Encyclopedia
Jan 21, 2020 · A 1916 design for a 'Land Battleship' by Anton J. Jehlik, this large vehicle rolled on giant wheels and was armed with 5 cannons.
Project armored Big Wheel Landship (UK) - en.topwar.ru
Nov 21, 2016 · Exact and reliable information about the design of the armored vehicle Big Wheel Landship is missing. According to one of the modern versions, it was proposed to build a two-axle all-wheel drive car articulated scheme.
Giant Wheeled Armoured cars and Giant Landships
Aug 27, 2020 · The Land Battleship was projected to be big. Very big. The whole vehicle was to move on rollers 40 feet (12.192m) in diameter and 20 feet (6.096m) wide. Three rollers arranged two at the front and one at the back.
WW1 Landship Designs: 150 ton Field Monitor and the 200 ton …
May 27, 2016 · The 150 ton Field Monitor design has its origins with the designers of the Holt Steam Wheeled Tank, this being their initial design. Optimism in the States for the Big Wheel theory was still quite high, even though America had …
Macfie's Landship 1916-17 - Tank Encyclopedia
Dec 24, 2019 · As an early proponent of tracked warfare, the American-born Robert Macfie had managed, by the end of 1915, to achieve little more than making sure that the official British work on Landships would be track-based rather than wheel-based. His own work had been ignored, sidelined and then either stolen or copied.
Draft vehicle Pedrail Landship (UK) - en.topwar.ru
Nov 23, 2016 · One of the projects of promising armored vehicles received the designation Big Wheel Landship and had to be equipped with a wheeled chassis. The Pedrail Landship, in turn, was planned to be put on tracks.
Concrete Big Wheel Landship - Landships WW1 Forum
Apr 12, 2006 · The landship provides a moveable (and armoured) fighting platform mounting machine guns and cannon to enfilade enemy trenches and deal with machine gun positions and other strong points so as to support infantry in their advance in depth.
Hetherington's Big Wheel Idea - Landships WW1 Forum
Aug 31, 2007 · The 15ft Big Wheel was a Tritton design, and not directly related to H's proposal. It may have been inspired by it, but it was not a development of it. As for the libellous comment about H in The World, I'm pretty sure it was a Macfie or Macfie-inspired article.