Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-01-30 | Page 6 | Inventor of 'Flying' Tank Threatens to Sell Abroad

Inventor of Flying Tank Threatens S to Sell Abroad N NEW W YORK Jan 30 10 UP UP- UP 1 Americas America's foremost Inventor of war tanks and submarines threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened today to sell seU the fastest tank in the tho world to Russia or Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many unless the United States war department immediately pays he says is due him The Irate inventor J J. Walter Christie announced he would deliver de de- Uv liver ultimatum today to Harry Harry Harry Har Har- ry W. W Woodring assistant secretary sec see secretary of war In Washington Ithe If It he Is not satisfied he said h he wilt will sell a just completed d tank to a foreign government to avoid bank bank- Germany has offered him for tor the tank he said and the U U. S. S S. S SR R. R has hns offered him a month to superintend tend construction construe tJ tf tion n of ot a fleet of ot them The Tho tank is designed to be car carried car car- ned ried by ordinary bombing planes nes and to b be dropped from planes in flight Christie said it Is capable of miles s an hour bour on wheels ant and 65 miles mUes an hour our on cat caterpillar lar tread It carries two wo or three men and a millimeter 77 gun It weighs poun pounds and is of of a height that makes it ous