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Encyclopedia > Cavalier tank
A24 Cruiser Tank VII Cavalier
General characteristics
Length 6.35 m
Width 2.8 m
Height 2.4 m
Weight 27 t
Suspension Improved Christie
Speed 24 mph, km/h road
14 mph, km/h off-road
Range 260 km
Primary armament QF 6 pdr
Secondary armament 2 x 7.92 mm Besa MG
Maximum armour 76 mm
Power plant Liberty petrol
hp, ( kW)
Crew 5

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History

The Cavalier was a Nuffield design to replace the Crusader tank, which was fast becoming obsolete. The the General Staff had issued specifications in 1941 for a new tank, and designs were submitted in early 1941. The Nuffield Organisation was an automobile manufacturing company in the United Kingdom. ... General characteristics Length 5. ... A General Staff is a group of professional military officers who act in a staff or administrative role under the command of a general officer. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...


The Cavalier was ordered even before it had been through trials. A major problem was that the license-built US Liberty engine was underpowered. The Cromwell tank that followed it got a variant of the Rolls Royce Merlin with about twice the power. The Merlin is an aircraft engine built during World War II by Rolls-Royce. ...


Those that were built ended up in training or auxiliary armoured vehicle roles.


Variants

Cavalier OP

Produced in 1943. The gun was replaced with a dummy barrel freeing up room in the turret and hull for extra radios. It was then used as an artillery observation post.


Cavalier ARV

The turret was moved and an [A-frame]] jib and associated equipment added for use as an armoured recovery vehicle.


External links

  • WWII Vehicles

See also:



British and Commonwealth armoured fighting vehicles of World War II
Light tanks
Vickers 6-Ton | Mk II | Mk III | Mk IV | Mk V | Mk VI | Mk VII Tetrarch
Cruiser tanks
Mk I | Mk II | Mk III | Mk IV | Mk V Covenanter | Mk VI Crusader | Mk VII Cavalier
Mk VIII Centaur | Mk VIII Cromwell | Challenger | Comet
Ram (Canada) | AC "Sentinel" (Australia)
Infantry tanks
Mk I Matilda | Mk II Matilda | Mk III Valentine | Mk IV Churchill
Self-propelled artillery Tank destroyers
Bishop | Sexton Archer
Experimental vehicles
Avenger | Black Prince | Centurion | Excelsior | TOG 1 | TOG 2 | Tortoise | Valiant | Harry Hopkins | Alecto
Armoured cars and smaller armoured vehicles | Unarmoured vehicles
British armoured fighting vehicle production during World War II

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