[TANKS MEDIUM A, MARK V AND MARK V STAR] [Allocated]

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Other title(s): [TANKS MEDIUM A, MARK V AND MARK V STAR] [Allocated]
Year: 1918
Runtime: 14 mins
Description: The training ground is flat with deliberately constructed obstacles. A Medium A Whippet drives repeatedly through shallow flooded holes. A Mark V Hermaphrodite spins on its own axis. A stripped-down tank is repaired. A Whippet races a Mark V Male, others of both types joining in. All the tanks circle, showing that some of the Mark Vs are Hermaphrodite. A line of Mark Vs, including two recovery tanks, waits under tarpaulin. Two Whippets are joy-ridden. Mark V Stars set out for the training area. A line of Whippets is driven in to the parking area and hosed down. More Mark Vs covered with tarpaulin. Whippets and Mark Vs continue to practise - one Mark V is a Command Tank with semaphore arms.
Tank Corps exercises, probably at Bovington Camp in Dorset, 1918.
Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Royal Tank Corps / armour, British - tank: Tank Medium A Whippet / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark V / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark V Hermaphrodite / armour, British - funnies: Tank Mark V Recovery / operations, British military - maintenance / training, British military - specialist: tanks / 31/3(41) / GB, England & Bovington, Dorset
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
Colour: Black & White
Sound: Without sound
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