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Re: Looking for mini site.

From: "Alan and Carmel Brain" <aebrain@w...>
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 19:21:50 +1000
Subject: Re: Looking for mini site.

From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>

> Nellie was a digging machine that the British designed early in WWII. 

A good source is W.S.Churchill's "History of WW2", where it's known
under
the codename "Cultivator No. 6".

In many ways it was Churchill's baby - but he had no hesitation in
slaughtering it for scrap after May 1940, when it was obviously
one war too late.

Another whacky project - "The Directorate of Tube Alloys" - was rather
more succssful, and led to the "Manhattan Engineering District" after
December 1941.


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