Tanks, 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer . he Minister of Munitions,Sir Eustace dEyncourt and myself. After Sir Douglas Haigs letter had been readit was decided that a Tank Committee shouldbe established, with two representatives of theMinistry of Munitions, the Master-General ofthe Ordnance (representing the War Office), aGeneral (representing the Heavy Section of theMachine-gun Corps) and a Chairman, who shouldbe a General, not under the rank of Major-General,with experience of fighting at the Front. On May 4th I saw Lord Derby and suggestedthat the Committee which had been proposedon May
Tanks, 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer . he Minister of Munitions,Sir Eustace dEyncourt and myself. After Sir Douglas Haigs letter had been readit was decided that a Tank Committee shouldbe established, with two representatives of theMinistry of Munitions, the Master-General ofthe Ordnance (representing the War Office), aGeneral (representing the Heavy Section of theMachine-gun Corps) and a Chairman, who shouldbe a General, not under the rank of Major-General,with experience of fighting at the Front. On May 4th I saw Lord Derby and suggestedthat the Committee which had been proposedon May 1st would be quite unsuitable, and thatwe ought to have a Committee of people whocould devote their whole time to Tanks. Theessential requirements were Tactics, Personneland Material. Therefore one person should de-vote his entire time, with agents both at Wooland in France, to looking a Iter Tactics, anotherto Personnel, while Liu; Ministry of Munitionswould look after the desigD and should be the nucleus of the Committee,. MARK IV. MACHINE (p. 137)
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