The Chieftain's Random Musings Thread
Дата: 25.09.2017 22:30:12
shapeshifter, on Sep 25 2017 - 19:16, said: The thing it was being praised on them in almost all other
reports from the period are how they seem to last forever before
needing maintenance, and when they do are easy to work on compared
to other vehicles. If you were a crew in the hot desert you'd
probably think your ride was a sweet one or a honey if it meant you
didn't have to break your back and sweat half to death like the
crews of the other tanks who had way more problems. Nothing about
how it drove. It keeps going and going....
That specific report is from a collection of middle
east reports. this one to be exact Going by other reports
from the period (1942) The thing that kept being praised was it's
reliability. I'd guess it was the crews who started to call it
that.
The_Chieftain: No, no, you miss my point. The entire subject came up after
an observation by David Fletcher that to an Englishman, 'honey' is
the sticky stuff that bees make. Its use in this context is an
Americanism. Currently the prime source for the origin is mentioned
in Bob Crisps' book, where he says his driver started it off after
hanging around with the manufacturer's Texan rep for too long.
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