Land Excavating Trenching, aka, White Rabbit No. 6, This machine was an underground tank developed in 1939-1940 and designed to travel across "no-man's-land" in a trench of its own making, cutting a trench 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) wide and 5 ft (1.5 m) deep.
On Mike Rowe's podcast last week, Douglas Brunt was talking about Winston Churchill, and how he was working on what would become the first tanks in World War I. For secrecy, they claimed that the parts would be used for water tanks, and some believe that is where the name tank came from. At least that's the way I heard it.
ReplyDelete"At least that's the way I heard it." well done! Nice Mike Rowe bit right there!
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