Christie Tanks

[Steve Guthrie]

Hi there

There was a long flamefest in AFV News many years ago, before the internet on Mr. Christie. I use the word flamefest because that's the best description of the statement, rebuttle, re-phrasing, insults and threats that flew. It all began in a review of a book about J. Walter. The reviewer mentioned the problems Mr. Christie had with army. Who writes in then but Christies son! This fellow apparently saw his lifes work as polishing his father's reputation and attacking all those who disagreed with his assertation that Christie Senior was the most brilliant designer of tanks ever born, made to suffer by the hordes of lesser men who tried to pull him down.

It went on for months.

Steve