tanks

[hillman]

why is a tank called a tank

[rekstout]

During the development of the tank during and preceding the first world war, people were told that the vehicles were mobile water tanks (in order to keep their real purpose from the enemy) - the name stuck.

[david niven]

Correct, and I thought that you might like to know that the first history of the Tank Regiment was written shortly after the first World War by ex Tank man [previously Welsh Guards] Clough Williams Ellis, the architect who gave us Portmeirion.