Re: Dino/bird amphibians

[Aidan Karley <aidan_karley@yahoo.co.uk>]

In article <20050617171939.64748.qmail@web33507.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Jaime A. 
Headden wrote:
> The tanks were
> so named, however, because they were capable of land-to-water and vice versa, 
> a
> comparison that was obvious to the designers of such amphibious vehicles.
>
       "Tanks" in the military sense? I think you'll find that the nickname 
"tank" was a combination of lack of imagination and minor military indirection. 
The company contracted to manufacture the prototypes generally made 
liquid-storage tanks, and so the name stuck. I have a memory they were a 
Norwich 
firm ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank#WWI_-_the_first_tanks points you in 
the same direction as my memory.
       
-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen, Scotland,
 Location: 57°10' N,  02°09'  W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233
 Written at Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:52 +0100



        
        
                
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