From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 06:12:12 PDT
At 2:23 PM +0930 9/2/04, Douglas Greville wrote:
>Ryan
>
>> Mother (the Mother of all tanks).
>> http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWmother.htm
>
>Perverse British logic at work here. As "Mother" is actually a "Male"
>rhomboidal as "she" carries cannon not machine guns. I don't think I
>want to even get tangled in definitions of the "Hermaphrodite" tanks!
You Aussies sure are focused on Gender aren't you? *snicker*
Seriously, as the master pattern, I suppose it
should have been called Father. But then that's
not quite as cute as Mother. Besides, they
probably swapped the armament out during trials
to see if the 4 MG configuration was useful as
well.
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Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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