INVISIBLE TANKS
CROSS BRITAIN BY THE TRAINLOAD IN THE NIGHT Tanks arc now being carried' by "invisible" routes to .Britain's ports on special wagons in train loads of 24 at a time. Production is: so arranged that batches ol tlieiu arc ready at night, when they arc loaded on the trains and sent to the ports by special routes so as to arrive there in the dark. The result is that very ?Y;w peo'ple in Britain have an ill kling of this: "invisible"' traffic. The new "nceiank," tar Hat wagon 011 which two heavy Valentines: can be. carried, is a special feature ol these tank trains. Where there is net a loading dock a ramp is used, but the tanks can, if necessary, climb aboard themselves. Worked out by the railway operations experts in conjunction with the War Oli'iee, these "rectanks" allow the full width of tlie railway gauge to be used so that with the larger tanks there are only inches to> spare.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 60, 3 June 1942, Page 3
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164INVISIBLE TANKS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 60, 3 June 1942, Page 3
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