Talk:J. Walter Christie

factory location?
this article from a 1930s magazine indicates that Christie's factory was in Linden, NJ, not Rahway. Verify? Did factory move at some point? -- Akb4 15:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I took it to mean that the Company's main HQ/Office was in Rahway, while the main factory/production facillity was in Linden. But it could and may well have moved. My compliments on your sharp eyes:>--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 11:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * some mention of the company name might help, / more than one? U.S. Convertible Systems Inc? Brian in denver (talk) 19:06, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Did USSR purchased tanks as tanks or as tractors ?
It was told that AmTorg purchased tanks as tanks, not as tractors. The rumours told in "Icebreaker" is nothing but a romours. Christie was going to be paid $60000 and when it turned out that he supplied tanks w/o turrets, the payment was cut for $25000. Which in turn made Christie refuse to ave any further contracts with AmTorg, which in turn forced USSR to design their own turret, not good at BT-2 times.

I cannot provide sources in English though. Perhaps someone will find them. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.44.136.229 (talk) 10:28, 20 December 2006 (UTC).


 * Hi. If you could find a Russian source, then I think I know where we can get a good English translation...that would be very interesting to add. I doubt any US Citizen would have been allowed to sell tanks, as such, directly to the USSR at that time.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 22:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Russian source can be found at http://militera.lib.ru/tw/svirin_mn1/ - this is the online version of Mikhail Svirin's 3-volume book on tanks, which is currently the latest and best researched piece available. Specifically in the chapter 5.3 ( http://militera.lib.ru/tw/svirin_mn1/05.html ) he writes explicitly that 1) Soviet buying commission was there officially (same as in UK, Czechoslovakia, France and Italy), they negotiated with Cunningham first for their T1E1, and only when the characteristics of the tank were found worse than British Vickers (which the commission already bought) and the price quite higher, they switched their attention to Christie tanks. Christie tanks were purchased as tanks, and no tricky schemes were used to camouflage the purchase. Who would have been fooled by that, anyway? I mean, when a Soviet tank buying commission which just bought a few dozens of tanks all around the world arrives to US, unsuccessfully negotiates with US Army tank suppliers, then turns it attention to alternative tank designer and from him the Soviet representatives buy... *two agricultural tractors*? Suvorov is a great fairy tale author, but using him as a historical source... yikes. 178.120.32.68 (talk) 07:21, 6 September 2010 (UTC)



Oral agreement
I removed a sentence claiming, there had been an oral agreement with Christie to provide assistance to the Soviet Union. Christie is mentioned only once in Suvorov's book, yet he does not mention any oral agreement. --Pankrator (talk) 19:55, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Lots of unnecessary detail in the "Early Life and Career" section.
Pare out some of the racing details, in accordance with the depth of detail in the rest of the article. Landroo (talk) 02:28, 10 June 2017 (UTC)