The Newcastle Local Central Organising Committee for National Savings learned that the Parks Committee were going to sell the tank which had stood in the Park. They made contact with the Parks Committee and came to the agreement that any profit from the sale of the take should be handed over to them. The surplus was £14/19/7d, the tank having being sold for £32.

The tank had been photographed before the sale, and the tablet would be placed in the local Savings Bank Branch.

It was hoped that they might now be able to forget the war.

The Northern Echo 29/02/1924 also claims that complaints were made that the tank was a "nuisance" and "in the road"