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Guy Martin WWI tank (2017)

good film but such a shame that the namby pamby council wouldn't let them drive it through the town at 5 miles per hour!
 
Having been involved with this project, I made all the drivers controls and the gun mounts, I would not have tried to drive it through crowds as it was just not controllable enough.
 
They had some first class fabrication shops building the components. I just keep thinking about the cost and who paid for it. The computer design work alone would have been very expensive. If nothing was donated, then I can see this being a 500,000 GBP project.
 
Yes, an amazing project. I did not even think about the required tracked vehicle driving test. I's sooo crash it driving on a "wrong" side.
 
JCB funded the bulk of it as they made most of it. I got paid by the production company for all the bits I made. Stephen did the automotive side and got to keep the end product. The main problem was using too small an engine, it just does not have the torque required.
 
I had to look up JCB as I have never heard of them. They appear to be the Caterpillar of the UK, but I have never seen their equipment in the US.
 
Joseph Cyril Bamford (JCB) started designing construction equipment in 1945. There was a need for a lot of this after WWII. Since then he has branched out into all sorts of other equipments. There was a time when virtually all construction equipment was JCB until all the cheaper Komatsu, Liebherr, Hitachi, Volvo, Doosan, John Deere etc began to appear.
 
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