Workers from all trades come together to build tanks for our country

here the planers rough cut the wheel suspension on which the tank will be suspended the heat of the tool against the armored steel hard tough steel requiring good Machine Tools tougher than the material they Mill a thousand heavy automatic machines 8,000 tools gauges and fixtures had to be designed built installed to get the tanks rolling and thousands of workers had to be trained for exacting new skills all paying willing tribute to a great tradition to the long recorded achievement of American gunsmiths Artisans mechanics to the tool Builders of New England New York Philadelphia Cleveland Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee and the west from 1920 to 1935 around 30 tanks were built in the United States these were all development or Pilot tanks made for experimental purposes