Type B with a single two-man turret mounting a single machine gun and a short-barreled 47 mm OQF 3-pdr gun.Type A with two turrets, each mounting a Vickers machine gun.High strength steel tracks gave over 3,000 miles (4,800 km) of life which was considerably better than most designs of the era. This was considered to be a fairly good system for the time and offered better than normal cross-country performance although it could not compare with the contemporary Christie suspension. Upward movement of either set of bogies would force the other down through the spring. It was patented by Carden in 1929 and apparently derived from a similar but simpler suspension on Light Tank Mk I which he patented a year earlier. Its suspension used two axles, each of which carried a two-wheel bogie to which a second set of bogies was connected with a leaf spring. The power was provided by an Armstrong Siddeley engine of 80–95 horsepower (60–71 kW) (depending on the version), which gave it a top speed of 22 mph (35 km/h) on roads. The hull was made of riveted steel plates, 1 inch (25.4 mm) thick at the front and over most of the turrets, and about 3⁄ 4 inch (19 mm) thick on the rear of the hull. The first Mark E was built in 1928 by a design team that included the famed tank designers John Valentine Carden and Vivian Loyd. It was also the direct predecessor of the Polish 7TP tank. It was licensed by the Soviet Union as the T-26. It was not adopted by the British Army, but was picked up by many foreign armed forces. The Vickers 6-ton tank or Vickers Mark E, also known as the "Six-tonner" was a British light tank designed as a private project at Vickers.
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