Goliath tracked mine---

[BIGMIG]

I know these have had a few posts about them here on the forums in the past,but happened to see a little about them on the history chanel a few days back.So I looked them up on wikipedia and had hoped they would have gone into a little more detail on them than what they actualy did.These kind of remind me of some of the 1/4 scale models I have seen posted.Think it would be fun to have one of these to play around with (with-out the explosives in them  ). The picture is from the wikapedia page---------Larry 

[vonrundstedt]

They certainly would be fun, maybe with some paint bombs inside! just drive it up to some ones car who's upset you and let it rip

[daviddunlop]

The Fort Garry Horse museum in Winnipeg have one of these Goliaths on display. It came to the museum shortly after the war and was virtually complete ( minus the demo charge ), but over many years of being 'played' with, the control unit and wire reels eventually disappeared, along with a few smaller fiddly bits.

It wouldn't be a very difficult item to reverse engineer and apart from the explosives it carried, the bulk of it's weight was the motors and batteries.

The Borgward BIV might make a more interesting project. Hmmm. I wonder how much of that technology carried over into Borgward's post war automobiles???

David

[Crispy]

I saw something similar at War & Peace last week. Someone was selling a bomb disposal robot just like the ones seen on News at Ten during the 80's-90's. I couldnt find the seller to find out the price or if it was still working. Appeared to have the control box and certainly looked the part. Stupid me didnt think to take a picture though...  ::)

[littletankman]

Hi Bigmig,
I am in a living history group , on hold at the mo . But a while ago we did some TV work for a documentry on D Day. And the German group had a replica full size remote controled one Goliath compleate with its tralier . I was going to make one myself . I reserched it a bit . But the company I worked for desided to pack up so I was made redundent . I planed on getting stuff made there .

Littletankman

[BIGMIG]

The short piece I seen on the history chanel if I remember correctly one was being operated in that short film.According to the wikipedia artical on them there were two versions--battery operated motors--and gasoline motor version.I thought this was a rather good idea for it's time,and wonder how much of this idea was responsable for what has evolved into today's RC world.A mass ammount of what is around today was thought up many,many years ago--They just lacked the technology to get it to work
right.

                                    BIGMIG 

[Saxondog]

Very interesting,But I also see a very large truck in the background with a white star on the side.What type of vehicle is it? See the large glass cab,it's got to be 10 feet in the air does anyone no what it is? Just have not seen any truck like that before.SAX

[AndyD]

Sax,

It could be an AEC Matador, look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEC_Matador

:0)

Andy

[BIGMIG]

You might be onto something,sure looks simular to what is in the picture.

                        Larry 

[septon]

that is a AEC Matador