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LincolnTanker


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Hi, just come across this site not fully trawled yet, but I have found this.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/12/26/our-forts-on-wheels/?Qwd=./IllustratedWorld/6-1917/fort_on_wheels&Qif=fort_on_wheels_4.jpg&Qiv=thumbs&Qis=XL#qdig

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Aargh! This would indicate that the famous and oft-cited Holt G9 was a film prop, covered in plywood. Which collapsed on the set.

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"Aargh! This would indicate that the famous and oft-cited Holt G9 was a film prop, covered in plywood. Which collapsed on the set."

Well now looking at it.. why am I not suprised... interesting articlewink

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I suspected the 'armour plate' was mild steel. But not wood!

But it's a good link, LincolnTanker, thanks. There are some new pictures of the Jeffery Quad armoured car, and I think the other one is a White, maybe?

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If the article is correct, this is the film that the Tank appeared in:

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/236096/Patria/overview

William Randolph Hearst is known to have had something of a personal agenda.

Brilliant find, LT.

-- Edited by James H on Friday 7th of May 2010 01:17:22 AM

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I think it is wood, there is a what appears to be a typical wooden frame on the ground with some sheet attached. The 'plate' has broken in a wooden sort of way above the tracks.



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But wait, there's more.  Maybe this is the "other" G9 but the double somersault bit is the same.  And the weight!  13 tons is a lot of plywood.  Familiar picture but a more informative caption.

Mind you, this is from History's Greatest War where some of the captions are less than 100% correct, I think.

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Apparantly theres a print....

http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/P/Patria1916.html

The heroine her maiden name was Irene Foote she was a chorus girl who married Vernon Castle, they became famous in the US for ballroom dancing and apparantly started a craze... Vernon was killed in an accident in 1917 training pilots....

there a poster on the vid for Mrs Vernon Castle Patria.... 37 secound in....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw3btGSNDNU

Vernon flew 150 missions on the western front for the RFC.... an interesting article on the Castles here...

"In a single stoke, her marriage and her career were lost forever. In a larger sense the absurd, naive, wonderful world America had shared with the Castles had also been destroyed by the war, never to be found again."

http://www.paragonragtime.com/castle.html

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-- Edited by Ironsides on Friday 27th of August 2010 12:20:01 PM

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