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LIGHT> o’ LIN By X-Ra

... grim: of what is happening on the of Burope. We are told that houses were compelled sickly silence by the cinema the battle of the Somme. Wh they saw there in a sort of something of what it looks li man killed. I Lope we are those pictures in Lincoln. They ...

THE TANKS, Lincoln sees the Famous ‘Ancre’ Film

... some little indication. But we hope the battle of the Ancre is but the overture to such a drama of British offensive and of Tanks as no record of battles and of lnttle machines has ever yet suggested. The real battles of the Tanks have yet to come. When next ...

LIGHT> o' LINCOLN. By X-Ray

... Hurope. We are told that the London houses were compelled almost to a sickly silence by the cinema pictures of the battle of the Somme. Why? Because they saw there in a sort of polite reality something of what it looks like to eee a man killed. T hope ...

CoL. CROMPTON'S IDEAS

... designed and constructed the new form of track, which was the track used on all the machines which took part in the Battle of the Somme. One of the difficulties they saw in connection with the Bullock track was it was not long enough; it was not turned ...

DID LINCOLN PRODUCE THE TANKS?

... d'Evncourt or someone on his behalt put the sponson into the description of it. Mr. Frank Russell: That was after the Battle of the Somme, Mr. Hunter Gray: [do not care wheif it was. (To the witness.) You base vour claim or your request for a reward upon ...

WERE THE TANKS ANY GOOD?

... Tanks were a bad design, and in practical ac tion a failure. He called in evidence Col. Johnson, who at the time of the Somme battle, was a second licutenant, and who told a harrowing storv of the failure of the Tanks owing to their defects in design. ...

LINCOLN'S GREAT FINANCIAI EFFORT FOR WAR SAVINGS

... Wickham Gardens. In the first place it was one of the old original Mark 1 tanks. ‘which went through the defence at the Battle of the Somme in Sept., 1916, and cames to Lincoln with important historic tradition, .and in the second place it is one of Lincoln’s ...

THE TANKS. GREAT ANNUAL SALE

... Lincoln. Tt was quite satisfactory, and after further imbortant trials it was despatched for the critical work of the battle of the Somme, From this time the Tank beeame a Tecognised assot of the war, and since its first adhievement, in breaking German lines ...

THE FIRST EXpPERINMENT

... and handed over. Counsel did not say that they were all manufacturers at the time of the Battle of the Somme, but the Tanks that went into the Batin of the Somme were all machines o cither Messrs, Foster or the Metropolitan Carriage Company, and there ...

NOVEMBER 1. WHO o INVENTED TANKS? The Problems of the Royal Commission

... Major Wilson, and eventually to the production and promotion of the machine which caused such a world sensation on the Battle of the Somme, Sir Wm. Tritton and Major Wilson brought their case jointiy, and did not acknowledge any direction or assistance on ...

*WRITING PADS

... ho was in the presence of the samera. But men do not pose in the presence of death, and the pictures of one of tha battles of the Somme will bo valuwble alike to the historian and the psyhologist. To both they will declare that when every other fact has ...