Carden Loyd tankette

The Carden Loyd tankettes were a series of British tankettes of the interwar period, the most successful being the Mark VI, the only version built in significant numbers. The idea began as a private project by Major Giffard Martel, and the two-man type was developed by Carden-Loyd Tractors Ltd, founded by Sir John Carden and Vivian Loyd and later bought by Vickers-Armstrongs, which made and marketed it worldwide. Production ran from 1927 to 1935, the last two years at the Royal Ordnance Factories, and about 450 were made, most used by the British Army as machine gun carriers. The Mark VI became a classic design, was licence-built or copied in Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, Italy and Japan, and was the prototype of the Universal Carrier.