REMARKABLE TANKS
GREAT INCREASE IN SPEED. (Rec. January 12, 7-20 p.m.) London, January 10. In view of future war contingencies, the Tank Corps is evolving remarkablo types of swift anil noiseless tanks. Ono lined with discarded aeroplane engines has a swed of twenty miles per lionr on the level and seventeen across country. It is able to run away from cavalry. Another tvne has a thirty mile speed. A third is able- to cross rivers while a fourth combines Hie features of the tank and the submarine. It has a speed of twentv miles on land, and can then uliuife into the sea and swim the Channel. " It is ofliciallv believed that (Jermany intends secretly to construct similar tanks euuilipwl «'itli deadly gas. proiectnrs—United Service. iThe sneed of the tanks used m tho war was cnlv four (o five miles an hour on the level and three miles an hour over roush jirountl.l
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 92, 13 January 1920, Page 5
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153REMARKABLE TANKS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 92, 13 January 1920, Page 5
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