Hello everyone,
today, we have something special for you. Stuff you haven’t seen (and couldn’t have seen) before. Vollketten from US forums has been in touch with a professional researcher, who lives in Melbourne and specialises in military history. This researcher has agreed to take photos of documents (tank-related stuff) from Australian National Archives.
With Vollketten’s permission (he paid for this operation, all the credit goes to him), I am reposting some of the “good stuff”.
Let’s start with something light – some of the stuff in these archives is pure comedy gold. This tank proposal was submitted by Mr.Wentworth. The curious thing about it is that at that time, Mr.Wentworth was in jail for 12 counts of larceny and fraud. After reading the documents, I am sure you’ll understand what was the sole purpose of this “proposal”…
You mean Australia, where the Alps are? Australian snowy mountains, Strauss’s waltz, former Australia-Hungary?
no, check the adress on second page, it is from Sydney…
There is difference between Australia (knotinent and country) and Austia (country above Slovenia).
Slovenians are our brothers and if you keep on insisting that Australia the land of kangaroos is above Slovenia, we the MF Serbs will use out t-55 and spank you :) :) :)
Oh, we have a few americans here.
You surely mean “Austria” with an R.
But yeah .. this time Australia is meant.
Nobody got your joke. But I mean seriously it’s strange that the New Zealand and Australia are such close siblings, even though Australia is so far away from NZ and Australia is even landblocked!
“The wheels are something in wheels.”
What does that even mean?
Yo dawg I heard you liek wheels, so we put wheels into your wheels, so you can wheel when you wheel.
It means the man who wrote this was a damned stupid liar. lol
The wheels are hollow to fill with special gases and other such bollocks.
Largest garbage fraud I have ever read, this guy should have been intelligent enough to provide drawings but he did not even do that.
Everything to earn a dime, greedy people.
He was in gaol, I don’t think his higher faculties were primed for forward thinking.
Besides, if he drew up diagrams he might as well have been serious, it isn’t fraud if you legitimately offer a proposal ;)
It looks like sketches did exist, but were missing from the file sadly.
Funny…:))
Typical liar.
Mr. Wentworth was “The Original Nigerian Prince” !
And he did it WAAAY before it was cool
*insert hipster Nigerian Prince image here*
The Fresh Prince of Nigeria?
A deluded fantasist… he would make a good WG dev.
“A deluded fantasist”
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……….or a well meaning patriotic amateur who happened to be incarcerated
Is there anywhere to read all of these results from the research, especially when it comes to things like the Thunderbolt and Sentinel