Valentine tank

The Tank, Infantry, Mk III, Valentine was a British infantry tank developed by Vickers from its experience with the A9 and A10 cruiser tanks and the A11, submitted to the War Office as a private design by Vickers-Armstrongs in February 1938. It carried a 2-pounder gun in a compact two-man turret and used the lower hull and suspension of the A10 with thicker armour. More than 8,000 were built in eleven marks, about a quarter of British wartime tank output, with riveted and welded hulls and petrol and diesel engines, including licence production in Canada. Vickers delivered the first in 1940, the type fought in North Africa from December 1941, and it was supplied in large numbers to the Soviet Union. Production of the Valentine and its derivatives stopped in 1945.