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Following the surrender of Japan and the end of the Second World War, a parade of victors was held in Berlin to mark the occasion. It would be an opportunity for the allied powers to show off some of their newest tank designs; the United States and Great Britain displayed their newest light and medium tanks, the Chaffee and Comet, respectively. The Soviet Union, however, chose to display their newest heavy tank, the IS-3. There was no mistaking which of the three tanks left the biggest impression, and as the Iron Curtain descended over Europe both of the western powers scrambled for an answer to this breakthrough tank. Eventually, the United Kingdom would produce the Conqueror heavy tank. Before that, however, was Conway.
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Sources: This article was produced with the assistance of Armoured Vehicle Archivist, Ed Webster.
WO 194/300 ‘FVRDE, Project Co-Ordination Tracked Vehicles Branch Report – ‘FV4004, 120mm, GUN TANK ‘CONWAY’ ‘, L. C. Monger, 19/5/58, National Archives
WO 291/1416 ‘Army Operational Research Group, Memorandum No. E.13: Tank Effectiveness, Conqueror, Conway and Charioteer’, A. V. Longman, June 1954, National Archives
Ministry of Supply, FVRDE, Report No. AR 145: ‘Firing Trials with the 120mm Gun in ‘Conway’ – FV4004’, C. J. Wieland, 14/12/53, National Archives
Fighting Vehicles Proving Establishment (FVPE), Report No. F.T.1970: ‘FVPE Automotive Wing Report On Condition of the Suspension of a Centurion Tank Weighted to Represent F.V.4004’, F. G. L. Coates, 9/4/52
Fighting Vehicle Design Establishment (FVDE), Report No. F.T.1970: ‘FVPE Automotive Wing Report On Condition of the Suspension of a Centurion Tank Weighted to Represent F.V.4004’, C. V. Cleare, 15/4/52
Ministry of Supply, Fighting Vehicles Division, Development Progress Report No. 28, April 1951.
Ministry of Supply, Fighting Vehicles Division, Development Progress Report No. 29, October 1951
Ministry of Supply, Fighting Vehicles Division, Development Progress Report No. 30, Nov 1951 – Apr. 1952
Simon Dunstan, Modern Combat Vehicles 2: Centurion, 1980
Rob Griffin, Conqueror, Crowood Press, 1999.
Osprey Publishing, New Vanguard #68: Centurion Universal Tank 1943-2003, 2003
Pen & Sword Books Ltd., Images of War Special: The Centurion Tank, Pat Ware, 2013
Haynes Owners Workshop Manual, Centurion Main Battle Tank, 1946 to Present, 2017
David Lister, The Dark Age of Tanks: Britain’s Lost Armour, 1945–1970, Pen & Sword Publishing, 2020
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Following the surrender of Japan and the end of the Second World War, a parade of victors was held in Berlin to mark the occasion. It would be an opportunity for the allied powers to show off some of their newest tank designs; the United States and Great Britain displayed their newest light and medium tanks, the Chaffee and Comet, respectively. The Soviet Union, however, chose to display their newest heavy tank, the IS-3. There was no mistaking which of the three tanks left the biggest impression, and as the Iron Curtain descended over Europe both of the western powers scrambled for an answer to this breakthrough tank. Eventually, the United Kingdom would produce the Conqueror heavy tank. Before that, however, was Conway.
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Sources: This article was produced with the assistance of Armoured Vehicle Archivist, Ed Webster.
WO 194/300 ‘FVRDE, Project Co-Ordination Tracked Vehicles Branch Report – ‘FV4004, 120mm, GUN TANK ‘CONWAY’ ‘, L. C. Monger, 19/5/58, National Archives
WO 291/1416 ‘Army Operational Research Group, Memorandum No. E.13: Tank Effectiveness, Conqueror, Conway and Charioteer’, A. V. Longman, June 1954, National Archives
Ministry of Supply, FVRDE, Report No. AR 145: ‘Firing Trials with the 120mm Gun in ‘Conway’ – FV4004’, C. J. Wieland, 14/12/53, National Archives
Fighting Vehicles Proving Establishment (FVPE), Report No. F.T.1970: ‘FVPE Automotive Wing Report On Condition of the Suspension of a Centurion Tank Weighted to Represent F.V.4004’, F. G. L. Coates, 9/4/52
Fighting Vehicle Design Establishment (FVDE), Report No. F.T.1970: ‘FVPE Automotive Wing Report On Condition of the Suspension of a Centurion Tank Weighted to Represent F.V.4004’, C. V. Cleare, 15/4/52
Ministry of Supply, Fighting Vehicles Division, Development Progress Report No. 28, April 1951.
Ministry of Supply, Fighting Vehicles Division, Development Progress Report No. 29, October 1951
Ministry of Supply, Fighting Vehicles Division, Development Progress Report No. 30, Nov 1951 – Apr. 1952
Simon Dunstan, Modern Combat Vehicles 2: Centurion, 1980
Rob Griffin, Conqueror, Crowood Press, 1999.
Osprey Publishing, New Vanguard #68: Centurion Universal Tank 1943-2003, 2003
Pen & Sword Books Ltd., Images of War Special: The Centurion Tank, Pat Ware, 2013
Haynes Owners Workshop Manual, Centurion Main Battle Tank, 1946 to Present, 2017
David Lister, The Dark Age of Tanks: Britain’s Lost Armour, 1945–1970, Pen & Sword Publishing, 2020
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An article by Mark Nash
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Edited by Battlehammer
