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Churchill AVRE was a Churchill III or IV armed with a 230 mm petard spigot mortar, officially designated; Mortar, Recoiling, Spigot, 290mm [Nb 1], Mk I or II. [2] The mount replaced the 6-pounder gun in welded turrets on the Mark III and cast turrets on the Mark IV, otherwise the vehicles are identical.
A Mark V Composite is at the M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum, Ukraine. A Mark V* Male, Number 9591, has been part of the U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry Collection at Fort Moore, Georgia since 2010. Issued to Company A, US 301st Heavy Tank Battalion and hit by a 57 mm (2.2 in) shell round on 27 September 1918 during the attack against the ...
While the XK120 had a new overhead-camshaft XK engine, the Mark V retained the 1946-48 driveline including the overhead-valve pushrod straight-6 2½L and 3½L engines, now since 1946 produced by Jaguar, which the company had purchased from the Standard Motor Company before the Second World War and the four-speed single-helical gearbox produced ...
The Mark I was a more finely finished weapon with a wooden foregrip and handle; later versions were generally more spartan, although the final version, the Mark V, which was produced after the threat of invasion had died down, was produced to a higher standard. The Sten underwent various design improvements over the course of the war.
The Cyclone Mark V Engine is a steam engine in which the engine, steam generator, condenser and feed pump are integrated into a single compact unit. The company Cyclone Power Technologies of Pompano Beach, Florida was founded by inventor Harry Schoell to develop and market this engine.
The next Derwent version, the Derwent Mk.V, was instead produced by scaling down the new Nene to the diameter of the previous Derwent, specifically for use on the Meteor. Several Derwents and Nenes were sold to the Soviet Union by the then Labour government , causing a major political row, as the Nene was the most powerful production turbojet ...
Mk V, dating from July 1917, moved the recoil buffer and recuperator into a single housing below the barrel, which was common for all new British artillery developed during World War I. It also had a lighter breech with the gun balanced by the redesigned recoil system and altered gun positioning on the cradle. [ 2 ]
Morrison-Knudsen spun-off the division in 1993; it became a publicly traded company in 1994. After Morrison-Knudsen's bankruptcy in 1996, MK Rail renamed itself "MotivePower Industries", doing business as "Boise Locomotive". The company merged with Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) in November 1999 [2] to form the Wabtec. [3]