The Retro Blog

This is a brilliant article about about a British designed WWII weapon known as the Great Panjandrum. It’s basically a giant wheel with explosives strapped to it. The plan was to set off the explosives which would send the wheel hurtling across Normandy beaches and smash a tank sized hole into the Nazi’s defensive wall. The only problem was that it was pretty hard to keep the thing in a straight line, something painfully evident in this test footage. The video also includes some other hilarious looking experimental devices.

The article I linked to above includes footage of a recently tested mini Panjandrum.