voice commo was hooked up in the box at the tanks' rear? A phone type handset or the Tannoy type mike with separate headset?
TIA Gents

J

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voice commo was hooked up in the box at the tanks' rear? A phone type handset or the Tannoy type mike with separate headset?
TIA Gents

J

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Jerry,

I've only ever looked at post war tanks and it's always been a telephone-type handset; instinct tells me it must have been the same for wartime Churchills - any other configuration doesn't really make much sense if you're a hard pressed infantryman - wearing a steel helmet and replete with no small amount of stress - being required to mess around with a head set - let alone in danger of being reversed over by the tank itself. As always, when I'm unsure I'm happy to be proved wrong; if you don't get any other definitive response from the huge amount of knowledge within the Armorama community, I'll nip down to Bovington and have a look on their tank.

As an aside I've never seen a model depicting the use of a tank telephone apart from my own efforts when I displayed an AMX 30 with accompanying Infantry some time ago.

Brian

Hi Jerry,

The following images are taken from the Haynes Manual for the Churchill tank, they might be of interest to you?







The caption for the middle image is the one headed 'Far Left' on the bottom image.

Reading the words on the first image it would seem you have a choice of phone or set-up similar to the crew communication gear.

The spare fuel drum on the back is interesting, wish I'd seen this before building my snowy Churchill, it's reminiscent of Gulf war Challengers.

If the above information is no good, or only of limited value let me know as I have a very thick book on the Churchill which is well illustrated, but I would need time to flick through it to see if they have anything better, so it'd be a few days before I got back to you, and no guarantee of finding anything else.

Hope this helps, cheers, ,

G

Thanks so much man! This is indeed invaluable stuff.
Point of interest,the 1/76 scale Churchill I bought has the jettisonable tank with it.
J

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Thanks so much man! This is indeed invaluable stuff.
Point of interest,the 1/76 scale Churchill I bought has the jettisonable tank with it.
J

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Hi Jerry,

You're welcome, .

No,it was a Minitank kit I think.



As to your Churchill with jettisonable fuel drum, I'm presuming it's the venerable old Hasegawa kit, ?

Cheers, ,

G