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Rob


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Superb article by David Fletcher, including several images i've never seen before, of the Simms War Car

 

http://www.tankmuseum.org/ixbin/indexplus?record=ART3935&_IXMENU_=news_and_events



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Ah, excellent. It also gives me the opportunity to update this link, where it is demonstrated that the origin of the Tank lay not in Da Vinci's covered cart, nor in Joseph Hawker's tractor, but in Samuel Rowbottom's Automatic Tea Maker. That would probably get in Wikipedia. Read it to see the Simms connection.

http://www.teasmade.info/samuel-rowbottom/



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Superb, thanks for that! It's led me to another image I'd not seen before, a fantastic high-res job:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68373570@N07/7400962628/



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Is that a Pom Pom on the front or am I imagining things.... I had'nt noticed that before...

 

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Rob


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Yep, pom pom! Would have thought a relatively easy job for someone to do a model of one

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Thought just occurred - has anyone noticed the resemblance between the Simm's War Car and Jabba's Sail Barge in Return of the Jedi? One to go with James' tea maker, perhaps...

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Here's a short article about the Simms War Car in The Engineer, 11 April 1902 (pdf link):

http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Journals/2013/04/17/j/a/b/war-car.pdf



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Thanks. That's nice article. 



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