BRITAIN’S STANDING ARMY
INCREASE IN ESTIMATES mechanisation of service LIGHT TRACTORS ADOPTED COMBINATION WITH TANKS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, Rec. 10 p.m. London, March 9. Introducing the Army estimates in the House of Commons to-day the Financial Secretary of the War Office, Mr. A. DuffCooper, said that the economies effected in last year’s estimates, in view of the exceptional financial were made with great misgiving. The Estimates presented represented an increase of £1,432,000. . Referring to the mechanisation of the army he said that experience justified the adopting of the light tractor and one more field artillery brigade equipped with it. It had been decided that light and medium tanks should be employed in combination, and tank battalions had been reorganised on that basis.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1933, Page 5
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