Commenter Timothy Wade chided us earlier this year (good-naturedly, of course) for not doing our research on the Mack T8 double-ender tank transporter that we linked to on BigLorryBlog. Well, the perfect time to present the findings of said research is now, the day we kick off our fourth annual March Military Campaign.

According to Crismon, the T8 actually had its genesis early in 1942, when the Army approached Cook Brothers (Allied Machinery manufacturing Company) in Los Angeles. Cook Brothers had already developed a four-wheel-drive chain-driven bogie used in a couple 8×8 vehicles (the T55 and an undesignated desert training vehicle), and now the Army wanted the company to engineer a double-articulated tank transporter using those bogies. Artists at the Detroit Arsenal sketched those designs, designated the T1.

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