Re-Up Rare Christie Tank M1931 - T1 T3 T4 Medium footage.
Rare Christie Tank M1931 - T1 T3 Medium footage.
The M1931 was a experimental vehicle built by John Walter Christie's new company, and was the second design the first, Christie M.1928, which was a design ahead of its time.
It could drive on it's tracks or on it's wheels and could do 45 km, while the maximum speed was 68 km on tracks and 112 km on it's wheels.
It went into trails from 1928 and 1929 and The Christie tank ruined the Bureau of Ordnance's plans to replace over 200 M1917 tanks and already had spent money on the T1E1 tanks, the military didn't classify it as a tank and only 4 were bought for military trials, but in 1930 only one was bought.
The US would settle for the mediocre T1 and Christie wanted to sell to Poland, but everything became a patent mess, and the US would eventually stab Christie and Poland in the back and sell two Christie M.1940 tanks to the USSR for $60,000.
After several legal trails, the Christie M.1931 would see trails at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
and 5 were ordered but never bought and eventually the British had interest in the vehicle, who rented it. These trails would result in the Cruiser Tank Mk.III.
From 1931 to 1933 the tank would see several trails, but even with positive feedback from trials, the tanks were never taken seriously and would be treated different in trails the other vehicles.
But the Christie tanks proved to be more appropriate for infantry and surpass all other tanks built.
The cavalry tanks would be called the Combat Car T1, but some tanks delivered weren't finished and the military installed their own armament, engine, and radio.
A new modernization version with a better engine would be named Combat Car T1E2, this would later result in the Medium Tank T3E2, but the tanks weren't finished on delivery and the Ordnance Committee finished the specifications for the Medium Tank T3E2.
But the tanks were too expensive to buy a necessary amount of tanks, and service was not cheap either, so Christie did not get a contract to produce more tanks.
Christie tanks were far superior to any other tank, but it was probably to advanced for it's time. But attempts to secure US government adoption ended largely in frustration and rejection,
and Christie would die on January 11, 1944, nearly broke. His suspension would eventually save the future, because tanks like the Soviet BT , the British Covenanter and Crusader Cruiser tanks, as well as the Comet heavy cruiser tank, were all based on his design.
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