The Christie M1931, known as the Combat Car, T1 in US Cavalry use and Medium Tank, Convertible, T3 in Infantry branch, was a wheel-to-track tank designed by J. Walter Christie for …

The M1 combat car, officially Light Tank, M1, was a light tank used by the United States Cavalry in the late 1930s [2] and developed at the same time as the U.S. Army Infantry Branch 's very …

2023年4月8日 · By the early 1930s, the US Cavalry wanted its own tank that would provide highly mobile fire support to its units. This would lead to the creation of the M1 Combat Car, which …

2017年4月14日 · According to specifications, the combat car would weigh 14,000 pounds (6300 kg), reach a top speed of 30 mph (48 kph), and have a range of 100 miles (160 km). The …

2016年11月18日 · At the same time as the infantry order, the US Wheel Track Layer Corporation was working on four tanks for the cavalry. These tanks were indexed Combat Car T1. Like the …

Work on prototype combat cars began in 1931-31 with the Combat Car T1, based on the Medium Tank T3, and the Combat Car T2, based on the Armoured Car T5. These designs were …

Design of the M1 Combat Car Other modifications, including a fully traversing turret, led to the T5E2, the blueprint for the standardized M1 Combat Car, of which over 89 were built from …

The Christie M1931/ Medium Tank T3/ Combat Car T1 was the first of Christie's tanks to be accepted for production by the US Army, and was used in small numbers by the infantry at the …

Since the National Defense Act of 1920 laid down that only infantry could have 'tanks', the cavalry vehicles were called "Combat Cars" - although they looked remarkably like tanks.

The M1 Combat Car was a tankette used by the U.S. Cavalry in late 1930s. [1] Under the terms of the Defense Act of 1920, tanks were restricted to infantry units. To allow U.S. Army cavalry …