arrangement he sits in the front he's by himself sitting in the front and when the vehicle's closed down as it is now he can only see through those two periscopes at the top he's got no other vision block at all so what he'd normally do is open the lid when he's driving safely and then to open country raise the seat a little bit so he can see where he's going and then he'd be able to view the road ahead through that screen that you can see there under normal circumstances that screen wouldn't be folded up like it is and we folded flat when he's driving through periscopes otherwise it makes driving almost impossible but that's just to show the two methods of driving the vehicle the tank museum is a registered charity and every purchase you make from our online shop directly supports our work we ship worldwide and if you subscribe to our email list we'll give you NUMBER_TOKEN off your next order when you finish this video go to URL_TOKEN and you'll find something you never knew you needed so it's a NUMBER_TOKENxNUMBER_TOKEN driven by a diesel engine um weighs about NUMBER_TOKEN tonnes it has a top speed of about NUMBER_TOKEN miles an hour though i think that would be quite unusual to find it going fast on an act on active service just for getting there it's fine but for fighting you're normally traveling a bit slower than that the problem with the six pounder was that although it would fire a good anti-tank round a good solid shot round that could easily take out an enemy tank if he wanted to it wasn't any good at firing high explosive the high explosive round that they gave with the six pounder wasn't very effective and since these cars were normally formed into a heavy troop in an armored car regiment and they were supposed to give close support to the armored cars they couldn't really do it without the high explosive content of the round coming out to explode like an artillery shell they couldn't really do that and the six pounder as a gun wasn't very popular it was later replaced in the mark iii version with a NUMBER_TOKEN millimeter gum which did have an effective high explosive round but not in the mark ii so that's one other thing against it now this particular vehicle is finished in the color scheme that was used in italy and it was in the service or at least the markings showing mohammed carr in service with what was then the NUMBER_TOKENth indian armored car division but um it's actually in the markings of skinner's horse in that division it was the reconnaissance regiment that um worked with the division so that's why it's marked as it is it's in indian markings that was indian army rather than british army so it would have guy seeks and so on in the turret and in the driver's seat reasonably powerful they found that on cross-country work they were very good the mark one version of the auc which had the valentine turret with the two pounder in wasn't so popular it had the wheels and wings separate from the body but not covered in like this and it tended to catch on things rather a lot actually when it was going along so if it could have a fully armored front like this has a fully covered front it was a lot safer from that point of
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