' A< Marseilles message .states that an amphibious tank hiss been there, before French, military .-tod nav£ •authorities bjr -its- inventor, < M. A -0 "® Foenqumos. It strongly resembles ordinary "whippet",tank, .a propeller at the stem. After jrossmg trenches and climbing the tank entered the .sea, JS; surface , for some distance, dived and crawled ashore bottom, climbmg out on its own power, All'the. trials were satisfactory. " A jealously _ guarded lin construction is . reported^^^^ been discover®!. Scientists a Pittsburg (U.S.A.) covered the formula for the aUoy^use bv the Germans in,the .construction_oi the framework of their, Zeppelms, w was lighter than steel and of great ten ElasL the problcnf.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17157, 28 May 1921, Page 7
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