In 1939 as WW2 broke out the British thought that the same WW1 tactics of trenches and No Mans Land with ambushes of MG fire would be used again by the Germans. They had not anticipated Blitzkrieg and so when designing a new tank expanded upon the WW1 types. Foster & Co. of Lincoiln that had built the first Brit tanks of WW1 were again called to design a new tank for a new WW. They came up with the TOG (The Old Gang) superheavy tanks. The TOG I was a complete failure with two burnt out drives so the TOG II was built. This time a Paxman Ricardo V12 drove two generators that powered two electric motors for the final drive... to a max. 9 mph speed! The tank was fitted with a powerful 17 Pdr with a Besa MG as back-up and armor of 3" (75mm). It was crewed by 6 and weighed by 1941 an incredible 80 tons long before the Tigers appeared. As such, the beast was very heavy and unwieldy and not suited for combat. The 17 Pdr was formidable (with the Brit version of the Sherman- the Firefly), but not with the slow crawling and insufficiently armored TOG II. It tested various turrets between '41-'44 but then was abandoned. It now resides in the Bovington Tank Museum.

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