Hobart's Funnies - Gallery Showing Some of Hobart's "Funnies"

Gallery Showing Some of Hobart's "Funnies"

  • Churchill AVRE with a "bobbin"

  • Close-up of an AVRE's Petard Mortar

  • Churchill Crocodile in transit

  • Churchill Crocodile in action

  • A Sherman tank uses a Churchill Ark to climb an escarpment during a training exercise

  • A Churchill AVRE, carrying a fascine, crosses a ditch using an already deployed fascine, (1943)

  • Centaur Bulldozer

  • A D7 armoured bulldozer

  • Churchill Ark Mk II.

  • Churchill AVRE with fascine on tilt-forward cradle.

Many of the prototypes and their auxiliary equipment were developed by AEC.

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