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Show EQUIP TMK5 WITH 'mm motors Powerful Sleeve-valve Type Used in British War Monsters. . i It is now commonly conceiied by null-. tai-y experts that the tank was one of 1 the great decisive factors in winning the world war. It is also said that, had the British realized the panic spread through, the German army at the first appearance of these great lumbering monsters, a catastrophe might have ensued in the ranks of the enemy. In the, opinion of engineers, the sue- ' ec-s of the British tanks is due largely to the type of motor selected to drive-it. : This Is- the sleeve-valve type. Tho action ac-tion of tli is motor is so smooth, positive and powerful that the operator may always al-ways be sure of his motor in the thick, of the fighting. These large tanks of armor-plate construction con-struction with tho motor enclosed form a sounding board to internal noise, and, the quietness of - this motor is another' feature in its favor. I One improvement after another is hc-ing hc-ing made in tank- construction. Smaller i tanks arc said to be able lo travel faster! .than the Germans could get. out of the1 way, and to manipulate as quickly as a ma n can dodge. . j lie cent experiences proved their value ; In crushing down barbed Iro, machine I pun nests and even taking w ho'c ba t - I t cries of g.ins, as wa s- accomplished by j Sergeant Graham, who, seated on the i turret of a two-man tank, called tn-a. battery bat-tery of guns to surrender, which llioy promptly did. Tint, rccrardless nf other ehrnges, it Is evident, that the Krilish. after their p-v p-v erienee in actual opera t jGns on the fighting front, are con v in cod. that much of the success of their tanks may be attributed at-tributed to the quiet, poA ert'ul tlccvc-valvc tlccvc-valvc motor. |