Landships II

The attached image is for discussion purposes only and was sent to me recently by a mate (Thanks Shane) he found the image whilst doing a google search for images of Char D1 -(and yes, there is one in the image) It's not the clearest of images, but it certainly rates as one of the more intriguing I've seen lately. It makes me wonder how the blade was actually raised, it obviously pivots around the rear drive sprocket, and there's something going on around the front of the hull with all that angle iron etc that could relate to a collapsed hoist, and seeing as how there's no track on the vehicle and the two more modern vehicles in the image, it's pretty safe to assume that it's being scrapped so it's plausible that any hoisting gear could have been removed previously. The next problem would be the engine... the original motor would be far to underpowered to operate the vehicle in this configuration... actually.. looking at the size of the blade there's nearly as much metal there as there is in the support vehicle, so it'd be hard pressed to lift the blade let alone lift AND push... perhaps it had a post war repowering? Thoughts anyone ?

Regards,

David Scorer