TA 152,

I can only think of the reason that changing the mass production lines would have taken time they did not have, but anyway using Shermans against Germans ( Tigers, Panthers ) was like sending them to certain death at that point so I wonder were there any investigations made on what to do about this problem? Any ideas?

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The Sherman tank, so important to the Allies in World War Two, had an unpleasant tendency to burst into flames when hit: in dark humour it was sometimes called a ‘Ronson’ (after the cigarette lighter) by its crews or ‘Tommy cooker’ by the Germans.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/warslj/guns_10.shtml

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http://hem.passagen.se/plasticwarrior/ronson.html

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More than one Canadian has reported that their German enemies always smelled of Turkish tobacco, and wondered if the Germans thought that the Canadians in turn smelled of Virginia tobacco.

In civilian life, the Ronson's slogan was "lights every time", a slogan applied to the Sherman tank, whose faulty ammunition stowage and gasoline fuelled engine caused them to burn without fail when hit by German anti-tank rounds.

http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/ronson.htm

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