NEW WAR MACHINE.
SPEEDY ONE-MAN TANK. END OF INFANTRY PREDICTED. A and IS:/.. LONDON. Oct. 26. Authorities who were present on Salistery Plain today witnessed a one-man fcink tearing across the country and taking all before it. Experts said they were delighted with its mobility. They regard the arrival of this new,, type; of tank as the beginning of the end of the foot soldier. A seat in the conning tower of ilic machine is contrived to give (he driver a fill! view of the country which he is traversing. When in the hattlo zone a ! ■movement of a lover drops thn seat sulfi ciently low to, give the, driver protection behind the armour plating. The baby tank which gave the demonstration crashed up and down steep slopes, jumped a four-foot-wide trench and trampled down barbed wire entanglements. It weighed two and a-half tons, was nino feet long and five feet high, and travelled at a "Speed of 20 miles an hour. Experts - visualise a long line-of these mobilettanka, supported'hy monster tanks, as the front hattle'Tmo'of the future.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 10
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