HOW NAMED
WAR TANKS OF PRESENT DAY
KEPT MANUFACTURE A SECRET
Why are war tanks called “tanks”? The Rt. Hon. J. R. Clynes in his “Memoirs” gives the answer. When Lord-Kitchener went with Mr Lloyd. George to watch the first trials in England in 1916, he says, the commander-in-chief after a few minutes hurried away as if he were not impressed. But he stated privately that he had done so in order to mislead public opinion and so the better to preserve in secrecy his real approval. He gave orders then considered fantastic as to the care with which the new secret was to ibe guarded and instructed that the works where the new “caterpillar forts” were being built should be known as tank factories, it being given out that the productions were huge .water tanks for transport use behind the lines.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3151, 31 July 1942, Page 3
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