Rommel General Sees British Tanks -- General Speidel, former Chief of staff to Marshal Rommel, stops to speak to the driver of a Centurion 3 tank (L/Cpl Alan Weller, of Burgess Hill, Sussex) during his visit to the R.A.C. Range at Lulworth today as a member of the West German delegation of the European Defence Community Committee now visiting British to see British Military equipment, and planes. There was a row in the House of Commons over the visit of this former enemy general. May 01, 1953.