Sentence examples for converted tank from inspiring English sources

Variants of this cab became standard for all new Southern Railway locomotives and converted tank engines.

In 1942 my friend Jim Fraser was a corporal in the Eighth Army, the Desert Rats, and the driver of the converted tank that was General Montgomery's command vehicle during the North African campaign to El Alamein and Tunis.

The system was fitted during June 1941, as the Tetrarch was the lightest light tank available at the time; the converted tank was successfully tested on a number of lakes and reservoirs, allowing the Duplex Drive system to be tested on heavier tanks, such as the Valentine.

While the right has for decades injected neoconservatism into the mainstream by converting think tank staffers into State Department bureaucrats, no such pipeline exists on the left.

For independent northern lights hunters, a quirky and surprisingly cosy converted oil tank on Skrova island, off Svolvaer, is available through cabinly.co.uk (sleeps seven, €1,470 a week).

Kubiš then threw a bomb (a converted anti-tank mine) at the rear of the car as it stopped.

A Buenos Aires artist converts a tank into a "weapon of mass instruction".

Further analysis was carried out by converting stock tank oil pseudo-components (Nfg, Nfo, and Np) into gas-equivalent units.

It was in 1867 that Friedrich Siemens, working in his late brother Hans' factory in Dresden, Ger., successfully converted a day tank to a continuous cross-fired furnace equipped with regenerators.

In her new role the ship carried coral which had been dredged from Moreton Bay by the converted Landing Ship Tank Coral (the former ) to QCL's cement factory at Darra in Brisbane.

The 1st Armoured Regiment was raised as a regular unit on 7 July 1949 at Puckapunyal in Victoria when the 1st Armoured Car Squadron, which had returned from occupation duties in Japan a few months earlier, was converted to a tank unit.