Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-16 | Page 29 | Tank Britannia is Making way South

II 1T11I IS HIG1! SOUTH Equipped With Two Knight Sleeve Valve Motors, Fort Has Great Power, As a medium of exciting patriotism ajvJ helping to "put across" some of the recent re-cent patriotic money -raising "drives." few thing's have been more successful than the British tank "Britannia." now touring the country. Captain Richard Haih. according to Manager Arch Browning of the Browning Brown-ing Automobile company, local Will v&-Overland v&-Overland distributor, a youthful veteran of the British tank corps, is in charge. The tank is now on tour from Washlp.-1 Washlp.-1 ton through the east and south. Stops of three days to one week are being made in many of the larger cities. Th monster tank, which was in the thickest of the fight ' in ?"rance. is transported from city to city on a flat car. Both the tank "Britannia" and a Willvs-Knight eight, which accompanies it en tour, nre equipped with the sane tvoo of motor, the Knight sleeve valve It was the onlv motor to withstand th". rUid te t stipulated by the British engineers engi-neers who designed the tanks. Eact tank is equipi'fri with two powtr:u Kni-ht motors. This moving fort, tons in i weicbt, must have a motor of tremendou power ana absolute reliability. Upon t'.v.; one vital leature depend entiiely the P es of the crew, the success . of ih.: charge, and. perhaps, the winnin-l of th' batt'.e. The tank is doomed if the motoi tills or takers. The s'.eeve-valce motor measures up to these re.iircment?. The Villvs-Kni ht l-lipht. which Captain Cap-tain Haiizh drives, is finished in the reflation ref-lation British army khaki, with the nrit-irh nrit-irh coat-of-arms on each side of the car