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 6 inch howitzer being holed up a 1 in 2 bank by a Scammell Army Tractor. The tractor has a 44 hp diesel engine, has six wheels and carries 2 1/2 tons of shells... 16 December 1937