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1917 Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon Mark IV female Class: Others, Military armored vehicle — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2006-07-14 17:13 |
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◊ 2006-07-14 19:37 |
This looks like a British "Mark V" tank : http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/france/Fra-MarkVStar-2.jpg |
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◊ 2006-07-15 00:33 |
I would say it is an early version of the Mark V (no stars) which was designed and manufactured by the Metropolitan Carriage and Waggon Company. The side sponsons are of the flat type used for machine guns and therefore this is a female tank. |
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◊ 2006-07-15 00:36 |
Antoine, the name field is too short!  Could you help, please?The full name should be: Metropolitan Carriage and Waggon Mark V female |
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◊ 2006-07-15 00:44 |
was it known as M.C.W.C... or M.C.W company ? (maybe easier than Antoine trying to fit it all in.?) |
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◊ 2006-07-15 01:12 |
Not that I know. Such companies, coming from railroad business, usually had long names. We have a few of that kind already. |
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◊ 2006-07-15 10:57 |
You can't make it shorter?  e.g. Metropolitan C&W ... |
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◊ 2006-07-15 11:13 |
Well, I could, but would it be correct? Is it a problem to lengthen the field? |
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◊ 2006-07-15 11:24 |
It is already long for make names I think (25 characters). And for some previous long names (e.g. East-Germany and Russian plants) we already shortened names by using an acronym |
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◊ 2006-07-16 14:02 |
Is it a real problem to make the field longer, i.e. does it need more space on the server? (It shouldn't, but some programmes do.) A shortend name could be confused with 'MCW' = 'Metro Cammell Weymann', which was formed in 1932 by Weymann Motor Bodies and Metro-Cammell's bus body-building division. 'Metro-Cammell' in long is the 'Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon' (MCCW) which was formed in 1929 after Vickers Ltd. and Cammell Laird and Co. merged their railway-building divisions. Vickers part was the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company, founded in 1919, after Vickers took over the British Westinghouse factories from US control. This was done with help from the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company, which used this name since 1912. Here is a 'family tree' of MCW: http://metcam.co.uk.nstempintl.com/famtree.htm All these are not connected to the Metropolitan Carriage and Waggon Company, which was a company belonging to Sir William Tritton, the famous co-designer of the first British tanks. He was at the time manging director of William Foster & Co Ltd., an agricultural machinery company. Quite confusing, I agree, especially as quite a few 'Metropolitan Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. Ltd.' and 'Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. Ltd.', earlier names of the 'Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company', are wrongly being referred to as 'Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon'. They were not shortend by us but by the companies themselves. -- Last edit: 2006-07-16 14:05:42 |
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◊ 2006-07-16 14:41 |
It is not a problem of size, no. Just that it makes rather long names. Well, I have set the length of make to 40, like the length of model. |
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◊ 2007-10-31 13:23 |
New information I have learned shows that this is the earlier Mark IV version from 1917. The shape of the front observation slits are different to the Mark V, which you can see here: /vehicle_135715-Metropolitan-Carriage-and-Waggon-Mark-V-1918.html |
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