ARMOURED CAR PARADE

Grey River Argus, 22 March 1928, Page 5

ARMOURED CAR PARADE

TO IMPRESS AFGAN XING. LONDON, M;ireh2o. A rush of armoured cars ai 30 miles an hour past the King and Ruler of -Afghanistan wa> a thrilling feature of the Salisbury Plain tank display, in which a hundred tanks, armoured ears aii'l mechanised artillery paraded for Amanullah’s benefit. The scene was cleverly schemed, a crescendo of speed beginning with slow moving heavy guns drawn by tractors, then tanks travelling at thirty-five miles an hour °”d finallv armoured cars,which resembled a mon strous herd of cattle, panic-stricken by thp flight of aeroplanes overhead, which was swooping down 1o attack it. “It is thomost astonishing salute T have ever taken,” said King Aman-