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While a true monster of a tank never saw the light of day, the largest military tank ever made is still impressively massive.
The debacle that was the Panzer VIII Maus (German for mouse ... including the original Daimler-Benz engine, which was inadequate to move the monstrous weight of the tank. Today, the lone ...
The Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was a WWII engineering marvel - and a massive failure. Weighing 188 tons, it was the heaviest tank ever constructed. But its size made it nearly immobile ...
Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series, has died at age 81, filmmaker Brannon Carty announced on X. Allcroft was most known for producing popular children ...
The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends from 1984 until 2021. Allcroft’s family remembered her as an “adoring mother and wife and visionary producer” in an emotional statement.
Thomas the Tank Engine has become a gaming mod staple, having appeared in everything from Elden Ring to Skyrim over the years. Remarkably, though, the dread train has never appeared in Alien ...
Thomas the Tank Engine fans have reportedly been banned from saying 'The Fat Controller' because it has been labelled as a 'slur'. A family day out at the Watercress Line railway in Hampshire took ...
This Rolls-Royce Meteor V12 engine from a WWII tank is the thunder of that early innovation. Though the video doesn’t offer much information about the engine other than it is indeed a Meteor and ...
By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Britt Allcroft, the British writer, director and producer who steered the animated locomotive Thomas the Tank Engine to television 40 years ago en route to launching a ...
It was restored and made available for viewing for the first time on Friday. By Victor Mather Thomas the Tank Engine notices a funny smell. He breaks a rule, has a mishap and gets stuck.