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Roger Todd


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Okay, this is definitely not WW1, or even close, but the roughly rhomboid shape (the tracks are suggestive of a bloated Char 2C overdosed on steroids) and casemated armament give it a decidedly retro look even for 1940, so I thought it might be entertaining to chuck it in here.

Described as a 'Movable Maginot', it apparently featured in a 1940 British propaganda pamphlet titled The Brains To Win, along with various other future super weapons. Whilst the illustrated weapons were clearly fanciful, the pamphlet's overall purpose was apparently to reassure beleaguered Brits that Science would win the war for them. I cannot find any other reference to this pamphlet on the web, all references take one back to this originating source:

http://thesciencebookstore.com/2012/12/moveable-maginot-a-feast-of-morbidly-techno-gigantism/

Among its various features, I rather like the warship-style crane on the roof, presumably to position the aircraft which are seen taking off from it. The hatch at the front disgorging field artillery puts me in mind of Thunderbird 2 unloading its rescue craft. Perhaps the 'Movable Maginot' is what happens when International Rescue goes bad...?



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It's a shame we never got land battleships.

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Robida Surely........smile  if on paper designs count as inventions then the land battleship has been invented several times... albiet never built or tested in practice succesfully, if the K-Wagon had ever been finished and succesfully tested in combat I'm sure it would now be referred to as a Land Battleship...

 

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-- Edited by Ironsides on Saturday 25th of May 2013 12:01:08 PM

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Roger Todd


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guest wrote:

@Roger Todd
Roger just a question

the Movable Maginot of 1940 was a British concept or a French concept? (the Maginot name seems to be French) confuseconfuse

Well, as far as I can make out, that pamphlet it's from is British, but I can't find any reference to it anywhere else apart from that website (not that I'm casting doubt, just clarifying). I suspect it's simply the pamphlet artist's own invention - you can imagine the scene, the illustrator's told by some chap smoking a pipe to dash off a picture of "a super-tank to crush the Boche, what ho!" As for the reference to the Maginot Line, even though it was French it would have been instantly recognisable to the British public as an example of a supposedly impregnable fortification as it was effectively part of Britain's defences seeing as the French were our allies. Also, Britain being a maritime power there was no comparable British land fortification to draw the analogy with.



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I like the two small figures on the ramp, discarding the tiny cannon off the door: "Let's get rid-uh of this puny gun! We got LOTS of 'em already!"
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guest wrote:

just imagining the scene.... biggrinbiggrin

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