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Tank presented to town was sold for scrap

February 6, 2019 2 Comments

Dorothy with a First World War tank in Wyndham Park. September 16 1929 It’s a Female, ie only armed with machine guns, Mark IV Tank given to the town in 1919 as a thank-you for all the money raised for war funds during the war by the town. It was on a concrete plinth in what became Wyndham Park . It was sold off for scrap in the late 1920s for £26.50p. There is only one of these presentation tanks left in the country and that’s in Ashford in Kent.

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  1. The Thinker says

    February 6, 2019 at 7:32 pm

    Council members even had blinkers on their eyes in them days as well as today, what they would give to have it today………

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  2. Doodlydo says

    February 7, 2019 at 11:57 am

    No doubt it would have gone for scrap anyway during the Second World War to help the war effort.

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