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
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)
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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