Demonstration of British military vehicles, Surrey

Sep. 09, 1954 - Demonstrating world's first jet propelled tank: The world's first jet propelled tank was demonstrated today (Thursday) in a display of new British military vehicles at the Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment at Chertsey, Surrey. The tank, developed at the establishment, is powered by a gas turbine engine produced by C A Parsons and Co, the Newcastle engineers, in collaboration with the Ministry of Supply. The tank will be a mobile testbed, providing information for the future application of gas turbine technique to wheeled and tracked military vehicles. It crosses a bridge during the demonstration today

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Application Chertsey Collaboration Crosses Demonstrated Demonstrating Developed Establishment Mobile Parsons Propelled Providing Testbed Tracked Turbine Wheeled

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