![]() ![]() ![]() The Post War desire to standardise on a common set of vehicle building blocks such as the Rolls Royce B Series engine was ambitious, and although it was not a 100% successful strategy, it still went a long way to reducing the logistics and support burdens compared to the menagerie of vehicles and components the British Army had to deal with by necessity during WWII.ĭespite the rapid drawdown of forces post-war, and various mergers in the design and industrialisation landscape, the approach of in-house design and outsourced manufacture worked well. Not only had these been proven in operations on the Korean peninsular and in Malaya, amongst many others, and they were all export successes. The British Army ended the Fifties with enormously successful vehicles Centurion, Saladin, Saracen, Ferret, Land Rover, the Bedford RL and AEC Militant. Diminishing Returns – The British Army and its Vehicles – The Sixties.Diminishing Returns – The British Army and its Vehicles – The Fifties. ![]() Diminishing Returns – The British Army and its Vehicles – Series Introduction. ![]()
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