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Other countries and self sealing tanks

Did anyone in the UK concurrently come up with a successful design? I assume that the Germans and Russians had something too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.145.240.241 (talk) 08:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Self sealing fuel tank were invented by an Grumann Aircraft USA 1939.. First used in 1941 F4F. I would not believe anything written on this page. It is not fact more British invention fiction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.121.85.215 (talk) 12:54, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"The Imber Self-Sealing Petrol Tank" - a 1919 Flight article here: [1] - the tank was used on the Airco DH.9 which pre-dates the F4F Wildcat by twenty years.

Jack Imber's 1918 US patent here: [2]

=Here is a bit if History

by the Glenn L. Martin Co. engineers, gives promise of resulting in the ... bag or inner liner, known as the Mareng fuel cell, is constructed from neoprene- ...http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cen-v017n009.p336. Published 1939 before WW2. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.64.176.178 (talk) 15:14, 15 November 2010 (UTC) here is another http://books.google.com/books?id=NycDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=british+self+sealing+fuel+invention&source=bl&ots=qnbYkejHX3&sig=rU_3nbMr4J766avU7wLeO8R9dDs&hl=en&ei=vknhTPzvK830sgad9cSJDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=british%20self%20sealing%20fuel%20invention&f=false —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.64.176.178 (talk) 15:17, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]