T E Lawrence was fatally injured on 13th May 1935 in a motorcycle accident on the road between Bovington and Clouds Hill. He died in the Bovington camp hospital six days later. He was riding a Brough Superior machine similar to this one. Lawrence had used motorcycles occasionally during war service...

The first armoured personnel carrier. The Mark IX was designed to solve the problem of moving infantry across the battlefield with the fighting tanks. The further tanks advanced during an attack the further the infantry had to go to keep up with them and often over very difficult ground under contin...

Although similar in appearance to earlier models the Mark V was a much better tank, more powerful and easier to drive. It was equipped with the new Ricardo six-cylinder engine and Wilson's epicyclic steering system which meant that one man could handle all the controls, compared with four in the Mar...

Following the modest success of the Mark I tanks on the Somme in 1916 the British Commander-in-Chief, Sir Douglas Haig, ordered 1,000 more tanks for 1917. This was a surprising act of faith in a new weapon for an officer with such a reactionary reputation. More factories were brought into the progra...

In 1904 David Roberts, of the firm Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham, patented a new form of crawler track which was applied to various prototype vehicles. One of these was tested by the War Office in 1907 and in 1909 this machine was ordered from Hornsbys for military use. It is said that the term...