Col. R.E.B. Crompton

by Andrew Hills

The foundations and principles of modern armoured warfare did not appear out of a vacuum, and nor did the machines of WW1 and WW2. Their development was full of false starts, failed ideas, and missed opportunities. Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton was a pioneer in electrical engineering and road haulage who, by the turn of the century found himself in South Africa during the Boer War. Later, in WW1 his early work with the Landships Committee on tracked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793324794
• ISBN13: 9781793324795
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"