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Show ARMY TANKS SEEN AT PEORIA, ILL Cheyenne, Wyo., Oct, 12. Frank Eichorn, who returned today from Peoria, 111., while there witnessed demonstrations of "tanks" which were manufactured for the British government govern-ment by the Avery company of Peoria. Peo-ria. He states that the "tanks" leave the factory complete except for armor and that before they are shipped they are given severe tryouts against ob-stacles ob-stacles similar to those which they will encounter on the battle line In France. The machines are capable of traveling travel-ing at a considerable speed. In the tests they are driven through barbed-wire barbed-wire entanglements, against posts, over ground in which many holes, corresponding cor-responding to shell craters, have been dug, and finally are plungod into a pit 30 feet in depth. If they can negotiate nego-tiate all of these obstacles they are considered fit for shipment. The "tanks," Eichorn says, have numerous nu-merous wheels projecting from all sides and will run on any of these wheels. Therefore they can roll over and over and still be able to continue to travel, regardless of whether they are resting on their bottom, top, sides or end. They are so arranged that when they turn over the interior compartments, com-partments, containing the operating mechanism and machine guns, remain always upright. |