Mk VI light tank

The Tank, Light, Mk VI was a British light tank built by Vickers-Armstrongs in the late 1930s and used in the Second World War. It was the sixth in the line of light tanks Vickers-Armstrongs built for the British Army between the wars, nearly identical to its predecessors but with a larger turret that made room for a wireless set, a weight of 10,800 pounds and an 88 horsepower engine that raised the top speed to 35 mph. It had a crew of three, armour from 4 to 14 mm, a Horstmann coil-spring suspension and Vickers machine guns, later Besa guns in the Mk VIC. Production began in 1936 and ended in 1940 with 1,682 built, many of them variants that solved problems in the original design.