ARMY TANK
DRIVEN WITHOUT CARE. ALDERSHOT, January 19. The Aldershot magistrates were told to-day that drivers of Army tanks would pull out to overtake other traffic unless the tank commander gave an order to the contrary. Lce.-Cpl. Kenneth Joseph Blake Webb, of the King’s Dragoon Guards, stationed at Aidershot, was fined a guinea costs, for driving a light tank without due care and attention. It was stated that Webb pulled his tank out to overtake a lorry and trailer after a car had done the same. The tank collided with a motor-cyclist, who died from his injuries. Webb said in defence that, getting no other command from his tank commander in the observation tower, he followed the car. He then got. an order to get back behind the lorry. He tried to do so. but the tank slipped to tire offside of the road. He braked hard, but. the motor-cyclist hit the tank head on. Had the order been given earlier, he could have drawn in. Webb added. Trooper G. Quill, the tank commander. said ho saw the motor-cyclist when the car had returned to (he near side of the road, and ordered the •driver to get behind the lorry. He (gave no order to pull out. because a ■ tank driver would pul! out unless di- , reefed otherwise.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1939, Page 11
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