INVENTION OF THE TANK.
AN UNLUCKY AUSTRALIAN. London, Jan. 24. The Royal Commission on awards to inventors, while handsomely praising the tank design furnished by De Mole, a West Australian, as “a brilliant invention, which anticipated, and in some respects surpassed, that Used in 1916,” definitely disposes of all possibility of a reward. The commission attributes the credit for the invention of the tanks actually used to Sir William, AshbeeTrittbn and Major W. G. Wilson, and recommends them for an award of £15,060. The Times, in a leading article, says: —“This is an example of a hard and inevitable decision. No award is made to De Mole, because his design was unappreciated, and had been forgotten. Sir William Ashbee-Tritton and Major Wilson worked out their plan in ignorance of the earlier invention.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1921, Page 5
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132INVENTION OF THE TANK. Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1921, Page 5
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