Vickers Medium Mk.I

This model has a Royal Tank Regiment markings (1929).

Historical information

The Vickers Medium Mark I was a British tank of the Inter-war period built by Vickers.

After the First World War Britain disbanded most of its tank units leaving only five tank battalions equipped with the Mark V and the Medium Mark C. At first a large budget was made available for tank design but this was all spent on the failed development of the Medium Mark D.

When the government design bureau, the Tank Design Department, was closed in 1923 any direct official involvement in tank development was terminated. However private enterprise in the form of the Vickers-Armstrong company built two prototypes of a new tank in 1921.