Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 December 1958.
It was said in 1956 that we intended to manufacture a tank. There will he many novel things about this tank. It takes a great deal of time, thought, care and effort to design a new tank. There will be many radical improvements, and I do not think there has been an overlong delay.