RAF_Luton on Twitter: "On this Day: 1910 Sgt Eve L Knievel used her Harley Triumph motor cycle bike to set a new Tank Towing World Record of 3,401miles when she towed a Sherman tank from #RAFLuton to Norfolk… https://t.co/FYpdN3Yj77"

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1. Andrew Doelling‏ @AndrewDoelling 14 Oct 2020
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  Sweet!
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1. Andy‏ @mechlandscape 14 Oct 2020
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  Fun Fact: after setting the towing record, she then pulled the tank onto the @RAF_Luton ‘wall of death’ and averaged 130 MPH.
  
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1. only complete morons think that I’m Chris West ‏ @salop888 14 Oct 2020
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  You’ve neglected to mention that she couldn’t get it to budge before the panniers had been removed from the bike. (That’s actually a rare 500cc Harley Norton.)
  
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1. Dick‏ @Dick_Inman 14 Oct 2020
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  Is that not a BSA triple.
  
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1. Vee Twinn‏ @gyromotard 14 Oct 2020
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  Sgt Knievel later wrote a song “Don’t Eve Me This Way” about her tank experience, it was later covered by an unknown Central African group called the Cameroonards, one of which was an Imam and went on to host his own radio show
  
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1. Simon Bartlett‏ @simes2762 14 Oct 2020
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  An oft forgotten aspect of battlefield logistics, the tank tow was an essential part of field deployments a long with the scooter push of heavy artillery, the tricycle ammo carriers and hoop & stick telegraph line roll-out.
  
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1. grumpyoldman‏ @Green2020Tweet 14 Oct 2020
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  I heard that the REME were on strike that year so Sgt K was used to see if it could be done, and if so, the MOD would recruit the famously called White Helmets display team (covert name) tondo all the heavy towing including pulling tanks around the battlefield.pic.twitter.com/5JyAnggiCJ
  
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1. Alan Bellingham‏ @bellinghman 14 Oct 2020
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  Norfolk Virginia, yes? And those are flotation bags there to stop it all sinking.
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1. mark p bridges‏ @supercarrambler 14 Oct 2020
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  Didn't acting icon Steve MacFormby, King of Cool, try and reenact this feat in the classic Das Derri Boots film and pioneered the phrase tank slapper after running out puff on the Upper Stroke by-pass
  
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1. Gary Booth‏ @GBooth74 14 Oct 2020
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  Impressive!
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