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Commenting on 29 January 1929, Brigadier George M Lindsay, the Inspector of the Royal Tank Corps (1925 – 1929), said "the new 16 ton tank is far better mechanically and in fire-power than was ever thought at first". The plan was, Lindsay had expected, for eleven more to be built to add to the three already available, but Lindsay now thought that only one more would be built "out of Peck’s own surplus from the experimental vote".
Source:“Everything worked like clockwork...”: The Mechanization of British Regular and Household Cavalry 1918-1942 by Roger Salmon
Good day, everyone!
The context of the excerpt is that in the interwar period, the British government cut sharply on defense expenditure, thus making it hard for the army to develop a satisfactory tank, and "the new 16-ton tank" is almost the first promising one.
I found it hard to understand the word "experimental vote", and after looking up the word "vote" in a number of dictionaries, I found a really rare definition in some of them: "grant" or "appropriation."
Does the "vote" here mean "a sum of money", "funding" or something similar? Otherwise, it really doesn't fit in with the context.
Thanks in advance!
Source:“Everything worked like clockwork...”: The Mechanization of British Regular and Household Cavalry 1918-1942 by Roger Salmon
Good day, everyone!
The context of the excerpt is that in the interwar period, the British government cut sharply on defense expenditure, thus making it hard for the army to develop a satisfactory tank, and "the new 16-ton tank" is almost the first promising one.
I found it hard to understand the word "experimental vote", and after looking up the word "vote" in a number of dictionaries, I found a really rare definition in some of them: "grant" or "appropriation."
Does the "vote" here mean "a sum of money", "funding" or something similar? Otherwise, it really doesn't fit in with the context.
Thanks in advance!
