TANKS

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[ Royal Armoured Corps, British Army, North African Campaign, Second World War. ] Duplicated document: 'R.A.C. North Africa | Information Bulletin | No. 6'.

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[ Royal Armoured Corps, British Army, North African Campaign, Second World War ]
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'MOST SECRET'. Without date or place. [ British Army, North Africa, circa 1942. ]
£500.00

15pp., folio. Stapled into pink printed wraps. Title on front cover, with 'MOST SECRET'. Copy number 53 in blue pencil. In fair condition, on browned high-acidity paper. Front cover coming away from rusted staples. At head of first page: 'NOTE: SECURITY | Attention is drawn to the fact that this document is graded "MOST SECRET". It will not be distributed below Lieutenant Colonels' commands.' Contents page divides the document into two parts: 'Equipment' and 'Organisation'.

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Secret British government (Ministry of Defence?) file containing Autograph Notes [by John F. Milson] on forty-four post-Second World War Canadian tanks, with further text on typed slips, and a printed booklet for the Canadair Dynatrac.

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John F. Milsom, military historian and analyst, authority on tank warfare and author of 'Russian Tanks 1900-1970' [Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, London]
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[Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, London.] The earliest reference to 1947, the latest to 1968.
£280.00

53pp., crown 8vo, comprising separate entries on 44 types of tank, on numbered leaves of government paper, held together with brass screw clips within boards of blue cloth and grey paper, stamped 'SECRET'. Milson is not named, but the item is in his hand. The notes consist of specifications and design history. Six typed notes are attached to the leaves, together with a booklet for the Canadair Dynatrac, dated April 1963. The typed notes include 2pp., 4to, on 'CANADIAN RAM CRUISER TANK Mks I and II (M-3)'. In good condition, lightly aged and worn.

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