![]() ![]() America was already caught up in the automobile trend by the time the junior Knox enrolled in the Springfield Technical Institute. John Knox, Harry's father, was a plumber, but Harry went a different way. Harry Knox was born on January 19th, 1875, near Westfield, Massachusetts. Harry Austin Knox was a talented car designer, one of the first who transformed the car from a motorized carriage into the dominant method of transportation. The hero of this article belonged to the latter. It so happened that the first wave of tank builders came from either those who built tractors or cars. However, he was also a talented tank designer who had an effective monopoly on American tank chassis from 1935 to the mid-1940s. Harry Austin Knox was better known as a car designer. Even many specialists would not recognize the name of the man who effectively created the American wartime tank. The only well known names among them are John Walter Christie and perhaps Joseph Colby, director of the Tank-automotive Center and a key figure in American wartime tank building. Compared to Soviet tank designers, they are like ghosts. The situation with American tank designers is even stranger. For instance, Creighton Abrams is the best known American tank ace, and few know about tankers who scored more tank kills than he did. American tank history is strange in some ways.
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