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Cut-Away Schematic: British Vickers Medium Tank, 1925

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One of my favorite popular technical illustrators of the 20th century was G.H. Davis (1881-1963), who worked enormous accomplishments for the Illustrated London News for some forty years.  His specialty seemed to be the cut-away schematic, showing half-exposed/half-not technical schematics on mostly oblique angles.  The example below is a fine one, showing the (not-named) British 1925 tank, which I believe must be the Vickers Medium I or variation thereof.  It was certainly an improvement over the tanks used in WWI, and for all intents and purposes it seems a “modern” tank. 

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