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With the release of the North Africa Compilation, we have been re-introduced to some of the experimental vehicles that were designed and prototyped but not necessarily saw action.
This article focuses on the T55 Interceptor Tank Destroyer Platoon. It started out as an experimental 8x8 desert vehicle designed by Cook Brothers. An unusual design, it joined two powered 4x4 bogies (each with its own engine) to the chassis to make this 8x8 vehicle. There was sufficient interest from the Army to contract them to develop it. It went through modifications and went into production in 1943, however preference had to shifted to tracked anti-tank vehicles by this time…