Showing posts with label tanks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tanks. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Army Tanks Used to Destroy Moonshine Stills -- March 31, 2022

Algiers Herald, 23-March-1922

I wonder if any of the soldiers watching this Renault M1917 tank crush moonshine stills were crying. I wonder why the turret is rotated. The government liked to put on big shows of dumping alcohol and destroying machinery during Prohibition.

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Tanks -- April 11, 2019

Moving Picture World, 26-April-2019
You're velcome.

Sorry.

Renault FT tanks at Fort Meade, Maryland, prepare to go on display to promote the sale of Victory Bonds.


Saturday, August 5, 2017

Latest Model of French War Tank -- August 5, 2017

Bay St Louis, MS Sea Coast Echo, 04-August-1917
The St Charmont was a pioneering French heavy tank produced by FAMH.  The tracks were too short and narrow for the vehicle, so it didn't get around very well.  It carried a 75mm cannon in the nose. 

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Christie at the Starting Line -- February 27, 2013

Walter Christie was an imaginative automotive engineer.  In this image from the 27-September-1906 Motor Way, Christie and his mechanic wait at the starting line of the Vanderbilt Cup race in his front wheel drive car.  Later, he developed a tank suspension which the United States Army did not adopt, but which the Soviets used for the T-34.