An eloquent silence, I'm afraid, Tim. I did have a try.
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As a hypothesis let's say that Tritton and his were the same as any other engineers and resused existing designs to save time and money.
The Tritton Chaser tail design doesn't look much like the tail fitted on the Mother/Mark I but bears a resemblance to the tail fitted to Little Willie.
The mounting points for the tail on Little Willie were on the sides of the hull and seem to have been a stack of bolted circular plates with
the arms of the tail running in a groove created by the plates. There are pretty good images of the tail on Little Willie - perhaps that could