Schofield hybrid semi tracked tank at Waiouru 1943
Maker and role
Unknown, Photographer
Production date
1943
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Object detail
Accession number
13-1350
Maker
Production period
Description
Schofield tank, a New Zealand designed half track vehicle.
Designed by Ernest James Schofield General Motors car dealer of Schofield Motors approached New Zealand government with the tank design in 1940 with construction of the first design completed in 1942.
Designed by Ernest James Schofield General Motors car dealer of Schofield Motors approached New Zealand government with the tank design in 1940 with construction of the first design completed in 1942.
Marks
Schofield hybrid semi tracked tank; Waiouru, 1943 Hand-written
167/37
167/37
Media/Materials
Physical description
1 photograph : black and white ; 12 x 18 cm.
Credit Line
Unknown. 1943. Schofield hybrid semi tracked tank at Waiouru 1943, 13-1350. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
Production place
Waiouru
Ruapehu District
Whanganui - Manawatu
New Zealand
Ruapehu District
Whanganui - Manawatu
New Zealand
Public comments
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- MOTAT Walsh Memorial Library posted 3 years ago.
Ernest James Schofield designed this vehicle and had it built. Ernest also founded General Motors car dealer Schofield Motors and invented farm gates and cropdusting equipment. Schofield had been a Rugby League player and had moved to England before WWI. During that war, he worked there for Lord Nuffield (Morris Motors) where he designed a device that turned a Lee Enfield rifle into a machine gun. His son was still living and running an engineering works in Penrose in the early teens of this century. This son, James, had this device plus the original proof-of-concept Meccano model of the Schofield Tank when I talked to him c2002.
- Mark Webster posted 3 years ago.