THE TANK INVENTORS
HIGH TRIBUTE TO AUSTRALIAN COEPOKAL. (Eec. November 5, 10.30 p.m.) London, November 4. Tho Tank Coin mission has announced that the greatest' credit is due to Corporal Demole, whose suggestions would have been of extraordinary value, but they were pigeonholed in 1912, as tho War Office was not seeking such an invention. Therefore the commission could not make an award. Counsel for the Crown admitted that Demole's plans would have made a better tank than that which eventually' was used.—Aus.N.Z. Cablo Assn. [Demole, who was a corporal in the Australian Army, giving evidence before the Tanks Commission, said he realised the advantage of the chain-rail system while engaged in heavy transport work in West Australia in 1911. When the War Office returned his documents in 1912 stating that it was not further experimenting with chain-rails, his friends urged him to submit the models to tho Germans. He refused owing to the likelihood of tlie Germans being enemies. Ho unsuccessfully submitted fresh plans to tho War Office in 1915. He thought his own invention was better than the present tanks in view of its ability to go backwards. The steering gear, models, etc., cost ,£looo.] '
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 36, 6 November 1919, Page 7
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197THE TANK INVENTORS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 36, 6 November 1919, Page 7
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