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THE GREAT TANK SCANDAL BRITISH ARMOUR IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR PART 1 David Fletcher THE GREAT TANK SCANDAL BRITISH ARMOUR IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR PART 1 David Fletcher Fi mene i et ts fae, es omen of Guards (9th Armoured Division) taking part in an exercise m Britain. The general air of chaos and confusion porrayed seams | somehow symptomatic ofthe unhappy state of Bish tank production inthe early years ofthe Second World War. Of al the | many thousands of tanks produced daring that time the Covenanter tas undoubtedly one ofthe tors andthe reason for thi traf jam on an others quiet country oad may tcl! be that some of them have broken dow. By contrast the ile Daimler t Scout carn the foreground tas on ofthe best British APVs ofthe era and, in terms of design for a particular roe, one ofthe LONDON HMSO ‘most effective in the world. | | (© Crown Copyright 1989 Applications for reproduction should be made to HMSO ‘Second impression 1993 ISBN 0 11 290460 2 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ‘A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Front covers frompice Back cover: (Churchill tanks abandoned on the ‘beach at Dicpe afer the raid ETO) HMSO publications are available from: HMSO Publications Centre (Mall, fax and telephone orders only) PO Box 276, London, SW8 SDT “Telephone ordors 071-873 9090 General enquires 071-873 0011 (queuing system in operation fr both numbers) Fax orders 071-873 8200 HMSO Bookshops 42 gh lor London, Wor 6H counter service on Seer oor Farerr-873 8200 258 Broad Steet. Bingham, Bt 2HE (21-543 3740. Fax 021-643 6510 33 Wine Steet Bristol, BS1 200 i272 254906 Fax 0272 204515 9:21 Princess Stoet, Manchester, MEO BAS. (051-834 7201 Fax 061-899 0534 16 Arhur Steet, Bofast BT!

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