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James H


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How remarkable. We all know that Churchill called the Landship Committee into existence, but what about this?

Churchill asked this gent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Watts_(naval_architect) what he should do with what seems to have been a drawing of an AFV - the Admiralty or the War Office? He suggested the former, which meant D'Eyncourt. What would have happened if he had suggested the latter?

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Given the track record of the War Office we'd be calling them "Chars" or (formally) "Chars d'Assaut" today.

One might speculate about the drawing of a landship Churchill had received - perhaps the de Mole design?

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How very wounding . . . 

However, I'm trying to work out the chronology. Was Churchill responding to the Swinton/Hankey memorandum, wondering how to take it further, then taking Watts's advice and  creating the Committee? I can't see that de Mole's idea would have fallen into Churchill's hands at this point. Was the drawing that of Hetherington's gigantic tricycle arrangement? Although would it merit being described as a "motor car"?

All musings welcome.



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