Training young men for the mechanised army. Tractor and tank instruction at Woolwich Arsenal.. These pictures, believed to be the first made in the Woolwich Arsenal since the War, show the intensive training of young men chosen from different artillery units as instructors for Britain's new mechanised army. In the Arsenal, the most carefully guarded place in the Empire, these men crash like tractors, huge tanks and heavy six wheeled lorries with equal facility down steep 45簞 gradients. There given extensive courses on the maintenance of tanks and motor vehicles and after their period of training will return to their own units as instructors. Photo shows, a Quarter Master Sergeant instructor giving instruction to a Non-Commissioned Officers class on engine maintenance at Woolwich Arsenal.. 16 December 1937