FOOT SLOGGERS DOOMED
NEW ONE-MAN TANK TAKES ALL OBSTACLES. SPEED OF TWENTY MILES AN HOUR. London, October 26. Salisbury Plain to-day witnessed a oneman tank tearing across the country, taking all before it. Experts were delighted with its mobility and regard its arrival as the beginning of the end of the foot soldier. A seat in the conning tower is contrived to give the driver a full view of the country he is traversing when in the battle zone. The movement of a lever drops the seat sufficiently low to give protection behind armour-plating. The baby tank crashed up and down steep slopes, jumped a four-foot wide trench and trampled down barbed wire. It weighs two and a-half tons, is nine feet Inng and five feet high, and travels twenty miles an hour. Experts visualise a long line of these, supported by monster tanks, as the front line of the future.—A. & N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20012, 28 October 1926, Page 7
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