TOG1
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The Tank, Heavy, TOG 1 was a prototype British super-heavy tank produced in the early part of the Second World War in the expectation that battlefields might end up like those of the First World War. It was designed so it could cross churned-up countryside and trenches. A single prototype was built, and followed by an improved model (the TOG 2), but interest faded with the successful performance of another cross-country design, the Churchill tank, and the mobile war that was being fought.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Tank, Heavy, TOG I
- Weapon.image
- File:TOG 1.png
- Weapon.caption
- TOG1 tank during trials, shown straddling a ditch
- Weapon.origin
- United Kingdom
- Weapon.type
- Super-heavy tank
- Weapon.is_vehicle
- yes
- Weapon.is_UK
- yes
- Weapon.number
- 1
- Weapon.manufacturer
- William Foster and Co. Ltd.
- Weapon.spec_label
- as built
- Weapon.suspension
- Unsprung
- Weapon.primary_armament
- 75 mm (2.95 inch) howitzer
- Weapon.secondary_armament
- QF 2 pdr
- Weapon.engine
- Paxman-Ricardo diesel 12TP driving English Electric generator
- Weapon.transmission
- 2 English Electric motors
- Weapon.crew
- 8 (commander, gunner, loader, driver, 4x sponson gunners)
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- TOG 1.png
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- total produced
- 1
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The Tank, Heavy, TOG 1 was a prototype British super-heavy tank produced in the early part of the Second World War in the expectation that battlefields might end up like those of the First World War. It was designed so it could cross churned-up countryside and trenches. A single prototype was built, and followed by an improved model (the TOG 2), but interest faded with the successful performance of another cross-country design, the Churchill tank, and the mobile war that was being fought.
==History== In July 1939, the Special Vehicle Development Committee was drawn up for future tank designs suitable for Great War conditions under Sir Albert Gerald Stern; who had been on the original Landship Committee and head of the Tank Supply Depot during World War I. The committee included others who had been instrumental in the development of the tank during the Great War: former Director of Naval Construction, Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt, Major-general (retired) Sir Ernest Swinton, engine designer Harry Ricardo, the gearbox and transmission expert Major Walter Gordon Wilson. Unsurprisingly they got the nickname "The Old Gang" and the initials TOG were applied to their designs.