TANK GOES 60 M.P.H.
LATEST ADDITION TO U.S. ARMY WILL USE ANY FUEL A fighting tank with a speed of 42 miles an hour over rough country is the latest addition to the United States Army transport section. During a demonstration given at Fort George the tank attained a speed of 60 miles an hour along a road, and engineers are confident that with improvements they will be able to run a tank at 90 miles an hour on a smooth surface and 50 miles over ploughed fields. Tacticians point out that such a weapon will give an army equipped with these racing monsters a great advantage over an enemy without them.
The army transport section at Camp Holabird has also experimented successfully with a device invented by Mr. Ernest R. Godward, a British subject. by which truck engines can without change operate on petrol, paraffin gas, oil and alcohol. Army engineers state that It is. probable that a standard Internal combustion engine equipped with the device .will operate eventually on any fuel with the exception of heavy crude oils.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 744, 17 August 1929, Page 34
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