Stuart Galbraith Posted January 22, 2020 Posted January 22, 2020 Ok, just decided to up my collection of manuals that ive scanned over the years. First up, the M60A2 gunnery manual. Incidentally, anyone else that has some good manuals you think might be interesting, please feel free to post them here. https://www.dropbox.com/s/par5apixm39zvtu/m60a2%20manual%20part1.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/7qc2cym5kyyzruf/m60a2%20manual%20part2.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/an9xnwojvklyy0k/m60a2%20manual%20part3.pdf?dl=0
Coldsteel Posted January 22, 2020 Posted January 22, 2020 Third party type links too? Handbook For The Q. F. Hotchkiss 2.244 Inch, 6 Pdr., 6 Cwt. Mark II Gun With Tank Mounting Preliminary Handbook of the Mark VIII Tank
Stuart Galbraith Posted January 22, 2020 Author Posted January 22, 2020 Absolutely fine with me. Those two are brilliant btw, I cant believe I didnt notice them on Archive.org before!
Coldsteel Posted January 22, 2020 Posted January 22, 2020 Not strictly a tank, but ... Vickers-Carden-Loyd Armoured Machine Gun Carrier: Instructions for Driving & Maintenance
DogDodger Posted January 22, 2020 Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) Thanks, Stuart! And Coldsteel.that Mk.VIII manual, wow! Edit: I'll have to set up a dropbox as well. There are also some gems at liberatedmanuals.com. Edited January 22, 2020 by DogDodger
Stuart Galbraith Posted January 22, 2020 Author Posted January 22, 2020 Lets bear in mind Opsec though, yeah? Im not putting up anything thats current, well, In truth I dont have anything thats current. I did have a fragment of a Challenger 2 manual but I lost that some time ago.
JWB Posted January 22, 2020 Posted January 22, 2020 Thanks, Stuart! And Coldsteel.that Mk.VIII manual, wow! Edit: I'll have to set up a dropbox as well. There are also some gems at liberatedmanuals.com.The money shot:"The goal of this website is to "liberate" government manuals from the dirty hands of CDROM selling mafia." That describes the various sites trying to sell issues of Chinn's machinegun books when you can get it free by going here: https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/MG/index.html
Stuart Galbraith Posted January 28, 2020 Author Posted January 28, 2020 Ok, this one is probably pretty rare. Its an English User Manual for the Khalid, the tank originally built as Shir1 for Iran. Shir 1 was basically a Mk5 Chieftain with a Rolls Royce CV12 engine, basically the engine and transmission IIRC from a Challenger 1. It was cancelled by the Iranians (bet they regretted that a few years later) and they went unsold for some years. If you look at the Chieftain thread you can find the minutes of a select committee where they discuss the difficulty of finding a buyer. As we saw, Jordan was the eventual purchaser of them. https://www.dropbox.com/s/p1iicb3ehmc0ets/Khalid%20Part1%20Automotive%20systems.pdf?dl=0https://www.dropbox.com/s/pehbg3r1rfktua6/Khalid%20Part%202%20Fighting%20systems.pdf?dl=0https://www.dropbox.com/s/5lwxlgg8zv853bb/ces.pdf?dl=0
DogDodger Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 Good stuff, Stuart!. Let's see if I've done this right with the operator's manual for XM803 pilot No.7: https://www.dropbox.com/s/masbilk91swcxv4/xm803.pdf?dl=0
Stuart Galbraith Posted January 31, 2020 Author Posted January 31, 2020 Great find DD, ill read that one with interest.
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 4, 2020 Author Posted February 4, 2020 Ok, this one is hot off the press, relatively. I first started scanning this about 10 years ago, but for various reason (not least because it takes bloody ages) I just got around to compiling it into a PDF today. So here it is, the Centurion 105mm gunnery Pamphlet. I dont know why they call it a pamphlet its nearly 300 bloody pages long....https://www.dropbox.com/s/82exp49btsvk1ph/centurion%20armament%20pamphlet%2015%201964.pdf?dl=0
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 4, 2020 Author Posted February 4, 2020 (edited) No problem fella. Ive got a couple of 20pdr manuals (Mk3 and Mk7/8) somewhere, but they are a bit difficult in they are not loose leaf. Cant really bung that in the document feeder. Ill upload some of my older stuff again before I do something else. At the moment im flirting with doing the early Chieftain Gunnery manual (ie, RMG), is anyone interested in that? Edited February 4, 2020 by Stuart Galbraith
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 5, 2020 Author Posted February 5, 2020 (edited) Ill see what I can do. In the meantime Ill try and reup the Challenger 1 manual tomorrow. Edited February 5, 2020 by Stuart Galbraith
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 5, 2020 Author Posted February 5, 2020 OK, here is the first part of Challenger 1. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0rsamnu78ia3wxp/Challenger%20Part%201%20Automotive%20system.pdf?dl=0
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 5, 2020 Author Posted February 5, 2020 (edited) Communications.https://www.dropbox.com/s/ew0x6qqqjg6dg6u/Challenger%20part%203%20Communications.pdf?dl=0Stowagehttps://www.dropbox.com/s/i7ee0ynd3ku5xdi/Challenger%20Part%204%20Stowage%20and%20Tools%20%282%29.pdf?dl=0Equipment schedule.https://www.dropbox.com/s/5lwxlgg8zv853bb/ces.pdf?dl=0Driver training.https://www.dropbox.com/s/44vwjvgjl9ksaki/Part%20%205%20Tank%2C%20Driver%20Training%20Challenger%20Mk1.pdf?dl=0 Fighting Compartment.https://www.dropbox.com/s/jg1av2lh5htrfxj/Challenger%20Part%202%20Fighting%20systems.pdf?dl=0 Edited February 5, 2020 by Stuart Galbraith
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 6, 2020 Author Posted February 6, 2020 This is the Chieftain Armament manual from 1968.https://www.dropbox.com/s/ufj8yi6fmpi4bdf/chieftain%20%20pamphlet%20no19%20armament%201968.pdf?dl=0 This is the brochure for IFCS, which it was later updated with.https://www.dropbox.com/s/dk1xsc2yh028lwg/ifcs%20pamplet.pdf?dl=0
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 6, 2020 Author Posted February 6, 2020 (edited) I should say, it's the ranging machine gun one, just like the Centurion one. I've got the IFCS one from the 1980s, I'll scan that when I have some time. Edited February 6, 2020 by Stuart Galbraith
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 10, 2020 Author Posted February 10, 2020 Just tidying this up by including the Rarden pamphlet and the Scorpion manual. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5watudg4qfem55a/Pamphlet%20No%2034%20Fox.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/iylfg2s4ngffusv/Scorpion%20Manual1.pdf?dl=0
Stuart Galbraith Posted February 10, 2020 Author Posted February 10, 2020 And this is the ammunition manual for the M109 in British Service.https://www.dropbox.com/s/bw55lu2rrekhjfd/m109%20Ammunition.pdf?dl=0 I think thats pretty much it for the moment. Ill have to make myself time to scan some of the rest.
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