 Although, in the 1930s there were some small attempts at mechanization with motorcycles, experimental armoured cars and the purchase of a few tracked Carden-Loyd machine gun carriers for training.The first tanks since the First World War did not arrive until a few machine gun armed Vickers Mark VI light tanks appeared the year before Canada went to war with Germany again.From these modest beginnings the modern Canadian Armoured Corps began on 13 August 1940.