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Old 18-02-16, 05:49
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'Apparently the reference to the design shape is contained in a Mechanisation Board minute featured in Ventham and Fletcher’s Moving the guns : the mechanisation of the Royal Artillery, 1854-1939, p81. I don't have a copy of that book, so am unable to see exactly what was said, but someone on here probably has a copy. Learn something new everyday, eh?
Yes the book has several paragraphs on the design features of the Artillery tractor incorporated to assist in cleaning up after a gas attack.
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Yes the book has several paragraphs on the design features of the Artillery tractor incorporated to assist in cleaning up after a gas attack.
It that the main reason that led to the sloping back design?

What about storage of the gun platform?

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