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CROMPTON (Col. R.E.)
Reminiscences.
1st Ed., xv+238pp., 8 plates. Constable.
1928
#68021
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Crompton was a regular officer in the Rifle Brigade from 1864-78, also an engineering genius & inventor who enjoyed great success in business after leaving the army. Most of the book concerns his career up to 1914 then a chapter details his role on the Landship Committee: "...Mr Churchill asking me to design a landship or armoured vehicle to carry a trench-taking detachment of seventy men... It was most important that this design should be hurried forward... The armour plate was the first immediate problem...&c." Crompton's work in devising the very first tank is discussed in some detail. Orig. green cloth, gilt, minor wear, VG.
£25
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