Original Source Documents: January 18, 1943 - Vehicle Designed by Private Simon Larkin - Colonel William B. Johnson, Chief, Engineering Division, Ordnance Department to Major E. H. Holtzkemper, Ordnance Department, Tank Automotive Center
Contributor: Todd G. Paisley
Source: National Archives - Philadelphia
1-18- 3
Colonel Wm. B. Johnson, Ord. Dept.,
Major E. H. Holtzkemper, Ord, Dept.,
Xxxxxxx Tank-Automotive Center, Engineering Offices, Fisher Building, Detroit, Michigan.
SUBJECT: Vehicle designed by Private Simon Larkin.
1. The attached letter from Private Larkin, with sketches, is being forwarded as a matter pertaining to your office.
2. Private Larking has been advised of this reference; copy of letter attached.
3. In forwarding this correspondence your attention is invited to photostatic copy of article in the Infantry Journal - November 1937, on the Howie Machine Gun Carrier , which is in general, along the same lines. For your information there is also inclosed copy of EDT Project No. 29-8, covering the development of the same type vehicle. This project was closed August 10, 1938, before any actual development was made thereunder.
WM. B. JOHNSON,
Colonel, Ordnance Department,
Chief, Engineering Division.
incls.
