January 1991, the Saudi desert. A British convoy halts beside an empty patch of sand. A single eight-wheeled truck reverses into position. No crane arrives, no forklift, no second vehicle. The driver stays in his cab. A hydraulic arm rises behind the cabin like a mechanical spine. It hooks onto a 15-ton flat rack already…
Eastern Poland, a morning in the spring of 2022. The ground is still hard from the winter and there is a haze over the tree line that has not burned off yet. A convoy of trucks sits in a field near the town. To the farmer watching from the road, they are unremarkable. Big, boxy,…
Late 1943, somewhere in Britain, engineers gathered around what looked like a farming accident welded to a tank. Two massive steel arms jutted forward from a Sherman holding a spinning drum covered in heavy chains. When they switched it on, the chains whipped the ground like a medieval torture device gone berserk. Dust exploded everywhere….
Auckland, mid-1940, a 53-year-old Chevrolet dealer sat in his workshop surrounded by pieces of a Meccano construction set. He was not building a toy, he was building a tank. Ernest James Scofield had no engineering degree. His company, Scofield & Company Limited, sold cars and light trucks to New Zealand farmers from a dealership on…
Basra air station, December 2006. The ramp of a C-17 Globemaster drops open into the desert heat and something very strange rolls out. It is a truck. It is the wrong shape. The hull sits high off the ground, slab-sided, bonnet blunt as a fist, the whole thing riding on six enormous wheels and weighing…
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