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Offline Wirelizard

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Real life or one of Tobsen's?
« on: 22 June 2012, 12:11:20 PM »
Apparently this thing actually existed, even if only in prototype form!




Italian, apparently. Wouldn't be out of place in one of the loonier VBCW games!

Offline Pentaro

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Re: Real life or one of Tobsen's?
« Reply #1 on: 22 June 2012, 12:27:51 PM »
Cool, this is even crazier than Tobsen's :)


Offline Arlequín

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Re: Real life or one of Tobsen's?
« Reply #2 on: 22 June 2012, 04:21:01 PM »
Here you go... a version of the Vickers Utility Tractor, armed with a Vickers-Berthier mg.



and of course the Holt mock up/toy...


« Last Edit: 22 June 2012, 04:24:14 PM by Arlequín »

Offline Ignatieff

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Re: Real life or one of Tobsen's?
« Reply #3 on: 22 June 2012, 05:11:36 PM »
Excellent.  They would make for a great game of dodgems!
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Re: Real life or one of Tobsen's?
« Reply #4 on: 22 June 2012, 06:55:43 PM »
Delightfully daft stuff!  ;D

And rather sweet, too!  ;)
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Offline Schogun

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Re: Real life or one of Tobsen's?
« Reply #5 on: 22 June 2012, 10:59:07 PM »
Yep. Italian. Just saw it in the new Osprey "Italian Light Tanks."

Online carlos marighela

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Re: Real life or one of Tobsen's?
« Reply #6 on: 23 June 2012, 04:01:17 AM »
It's an early model of the Segway. Alas, as shopping centres/malls weren't a big feature of the interwar era it met with little commercial success. In time, the inventor came to realise that they could be used to transport American tourists, too lazy to walk around the Coliseum. He should have stuck with the tracked variant, that would have made more sense in terms of tackling the Spanish Steps.

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Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
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Pede o mundo de novo

 

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