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To: Covenantor
Whilst the French and British worked to improve the tanks and deployed several thousand in the last year of the war, the Germans only had 45 at their disposal,

Hans Guderian fixed that the next time around.

6 posted on 09/15/2014 12:02:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88
Indeed he did.

Here's a photo of the Mark I

Worth reading the specs on this at wiki.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_heavy_tanks_of_World_War_I

7 posted on 09/15/2014 12:11:51 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: PGR88

One of my long lost kin did early design work on tank suspensions. Had one that exceeded 100 MPH!

No Uncle Sam did not want them, a few years later most had them.

You can tell he was a pioneer in his field!
Many arrows in his back.
No money!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Walter_Christie


8 posted on 09/15/2014 12:21:15 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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