Medium Tank A8
The Medium Tank A8 was a design for a 17.5 ton medium tank that would have been powered by two Rolls-Royce Phantom engines. It was under development from 1934 to 1937 at the Royal Ordnance Factory, and work began on the first prototype. This was never completed and the project was abandoned.
British Battle Tanks - World War I to 1939, David Fletcher.
An excellent history of British tanks from the earliest developments, through the battles of the First World War and on into the post-war period. Strongest on the First World War tanks, which fill the first three quarters of the book, helping to explain the problems faced by the developers, how they coped with the problems of the battlefield and how the design was improved in the light of experience, making it clear that the tanks of 1918 were actually very different from the tanks of 1916, despite looking very similar [
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Rickard, J (22 February 2012), Medium Tank A8 , http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_medium_tank_A8.html
