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Development

The Mk IV tankette was started as a private project by a Major G Le Q. Martel. Vickers-Armstrong manufactured and marketed t worldwide. The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers Company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment. ...

Production

Production started in 1927. From 1933 to 1935 production was by the Royal Ordnance.

Operators

• Great Britain
• Czechoslovakia
• France,
• Italy,
• Japan
• Poland,
• USSR - used to develop T-27 tank
• Canada
• India

External links

• WWII Vehicles