"A Historical Sketch Small battle vehicles, which were used, for infantry fire support or self-dependent reconnoitering military operations, were called "tankettes" in a diminution form of the word of "tank". Calling tank as a "tank"/reservoir/ came from the fact the first frames of those armored vehicles possessed their shapes /forms/ to approximate big and deformed reservoirs /tanks/ and Englishmen, wanting to lead the intelligence of their enemy into error, called them as "tanks". In the period of 1925-30 different armies wanted to intensify the shock power of infantry with small military vehicles as a cheaper way of doing it. So those vehicles often created the armament of those armies. As the first tankettes in Polish Army came into being those ones bought in Carden-Loyd Company, England. It was a model of TMT (Two Men Tankette - a tankette for two persons) in version of MK VI. Their first show performed on Rembertow's firing ground (near Warsaw - Zbigniew) on June 20th, 1929. By efforts of Technical Department Chiefs of Defense Ministry and further  tests and modifications of vehicle suspensions as well as armor and armaments, the series production of the tankettes of series TK was carried into effect in Poland. When improving and introducing changes it was charged Studies Office of Engineering Plants with a task to re-design TK tankette on January 1933. On June 1933 a new model was presented that possessed a changed form of body but the same suspension. Firstly the model was marked with STK symbol but at last it received a  name of "a light, high-speed tank, model 33" and the shorter symbol of TKS. After a series of tests and corrections the tank was acknowledged to be conformable with requirements and it was directed to serial production.Total number of manufactured TK tanks may be accept as not more than 300 for that same sources give only a number of TKS and another ones give a total number of all versions with a chassis frame of TKS. In 1934 it was negotiated a deal to sell TK and TKS tanks to Estonia, Romania, and Spain but without results. Whole time further modifications of the tank were in progress. In that way it came into existence a tank equipped with a gun of 20-mm caliber and self-propelled gun as well as an artillery tractor. In some versions of the  vehicles it was necessary to change the tank's suspension for that a load of the caterpillar was too much for existing resistance length of the  bottom part of the caterpillar. The change of the back part of suspension caused a possibility of a bigger weight and efficiency in conquest of ground obstacles. In this way it came into existence the prototype that was named TKS-B. That new suspension was then put into practice of C2P artillery tractors and TKS-D self-propelled guns. Attained results about  traction were satisfactory but broken serial production did not permit to introduce that modification to a greater number of the tanks."

Translated by Zbigniew Zdziennicki

Small adjustments in text were made by myself so as to make for easier reading, but for the most part, the text is unaltered so as to present the "flavor" of the translation.

Picture from a 1/35 scale plastic model by Mirage Hobby of Poland. The picture itself was unsigned.