Came across this the other day. Apparently in 1991 some visitors to Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset had a bit of a shock when they returned to their cars in the car park. Two cars were flattened and 7 others badly damaged. I can just imagine ringing the insurance call centre in Delhi.

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The story goes that the tank arrived on a low loader, unknown condition but runnable. Late in the day, keen to put everything behind the wire. As it was put into reverse to manoeuvre, the clutch operating mechanism snapped. 36 litre diesels do not stall easily and the brakes on a T 34/54/54 are not good in reverse (trailing shoes in reverse) and the engine overpowered the brakes and could not be stopped despite full foot brake application. Electrical master switch has no effect upon a diesel engine of course. Unfortunately, drive plus brake load locks the straight cut gearbox cogs so it would not come out of gear either. Solution was counter intuitive, release brakes first then slide gearchange into neutral but driver did do that and tank stopped. I think engine was stalled against top gear to stop it. Very very lucky no one was hurt, bent metal only but no one to blame, just one of those things.

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I once reversed a 10 tonne load of wheat over a car, little old lady inside it was shocked, she hit me with her brolly.  At work
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