Sir John Carden and Vivian Loyd built small tracked vehicles at Chertsey from 1925. Vickers-Armstrongs bought their company in March 1928, the year the Mark VI went into full production: 2.5 m long, about 1.5 tons, a Ford Model T engine and a Vickers machine gun. The British Army used it as a machine-gun carrier, a mortar carrier, a smoke producer and a light gun tractor.
It sold abroad more widely than any vehicle of its kind. Italy built it under licence as the CV-29, the Soviet Union as the T-27 — 2,540 of them — and Czechoslovakia developed it into the Tančík vz. 33; Poland, Japan and Belgium bought examples. Its running gear led through the VA D50 of 1934 to the Bren and Universal carriers.
Mark VI in British service
3 VEHICLES IN THIS CHAPTERThe machine-gun carrier and its mortar-carrier and gun-tractor versions.
Licence builds
3 VEHICLES IN THIS CHAPTERItaly's CV-29, the Soviet T-27 and the Czechoslovak vz. 33.
Registry records · chapter 2
Base models
The structural configurations the registry and the Creator build from; each page carries the researched specification.In service
Where the registry's Carden-Loyd records worked; each opens the themed history.Sources
- Carden Loyd tankette — Wikipedia
- Carden-Loyd Mark VI — Tank Encyclopedia
- T-27 tankette — Wikipedia
- Carro Veloce 29 Tankette / CV.29 — History of War
- Tančík vz. 33 — Wikipedia