{"id":37683,"date":"2017-03-24T02:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37683"},"modified":"2017-03-18T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T13:26:22","slug":"david-fletchers-tank-chats-2-the-carden-loyd-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/david-fletchers-tank-chats-2-the-carden-loyd-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"David Fletcher&#8217;s Tank Chats #2: The Carden Loyd Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BAKoCR6Ttr0?list=PLBAEOsdxIbLPFEomzphaZQ0A5Vujkpjd8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 27 Feb 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second in a series of short films about some of the vehicles in our collection presented by The Tank Museum&#8217;s historian David Fletcher MBE.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/infogalactic.com\/info\/Carden_Loyd_tankette\" target=\"_blank\">Carden Loyd Carrier or tankette<\/a>: Designed by Sir John Carden and Captain Vivian Loyd this was a low cost, two-man Machine-Gun Carrier for infantry use. The company was taken over by Vickers-Armstrong in 1927 and the vehicle was mass-produced for the British Army in addition to a thriving export trade. Unpopular with the infantry, they were used mostly by the Royal Tank Corps as embryonic light tanks in the reconnaissance role.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 27 Feb 2015 The second in a series of short films about some of the vehicles in our collection presented by The Tank Museum&#8217;s historian David Fletcher MBE. The Carden Loyd Carrier or tankette: Designed by Sir John Carden and Captain Vivian Loyd this was a low cost, two-man Machine-Gun Carrier for infantry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5,15,230],"tags":[991,1103],"class_list":["post-37683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-technology","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-infantry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9NN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37684,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37683\/revisions\/37684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}