The following quote comes from a war diary entry for the No1 General Base Depot at Marbury Hall Cheshire 27 June 1940. “Mr. Barry and staff from Metropolitan Vickers came to try out an electrically propelled carriage for [a] mine, with distant controls.” Does anyone know what this is and whether it was ever produced? I cannot seem to get anything out of Guggle but that's probably because I am not using the right descriptors.
Possibly the Beetle? British Goliath - The Beetle. Demo cited on there is '42, but general info is sketchy.
Crikey. This forum never ceases to amaze. An answer I believe is correct after four minutes. Thank you Von Poop.
tsk, tsk, tsk..... In this context, it should read "German Kegresse - the Goliath": The "Goliath" had pure French DNA, strictly speaking it was a "Germanised"* clone of the Kegresse ROV. The Vickers "Beetle" on the other hand reminds me more of the "Wickersham land torpedo" of the Americans. Apart from that, there are other reasons why the German vehicle was not copied from British specimens: The >cough< archaic British system of measurement >cough< alone gives us on the continent a serious headache: I still remember my beloved Mini Cooper, which required a completely new set of tools for a indecent lot of money... apart from finding a competent specialist workshop for major „surgeries“.