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Modified tanks, called Hobart’s Funnies, were used during World War Two, this A27L Centaur Dozer is one of only a few to survive

During World War Two, specialists from the Royal Engineers created a limited number of unusually modified tanks called Hobart’s Funnies named after the commander of the 79th Armoured Division of the British Army, Major General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart KBE, CB, DSO, MC.

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