Historical Times

[Gusington]

That thing carries 120??

[Keunert]

that's why they won the war

[bob48]

I think that was not a real vehicle.

[Staggerwing]

The sentry crouching inside the guard tower disguised as a street light fixture shows that the beastly machine is true to scale. Fie on those Fiendish Huns and their leviathan war engines!

[bob48]

Nah. Can't find anything on the web about it. Plus, I doubt they would have had a power plant powerful enough or small enough to propel anything that heavy.

I'm not convinced. 'Tis propaganda!

[Gusington]

I'm viddying this on a phone so detail is tiny...but I hope it was a real thing.

[bob48]

My thought is that if it really did exist, and given the level of interest here about WW1, we would have heard of it before.

I await further proof, but remain very sceptical  :-\

[Keunert]

Tze Zerman Zsar Tank

[bob48]

Tze Zerman Zsar Tank

Nah - that was the one with great big daft bicycle wheels  ;)

[Gusington]

That's right...the Tsar was also Russian, not German.

[BanzaiCat]

I think the key is...

Courtesy of "The Sketch"

...which sounds kinda like it could be an old-timey Onion.

Anything THAT big would weigh so much it would tear the $hit out of those city streets. Gotta be propaganda.

[ComradeP]

I think it's from a wartime periodical and intended to make fun of the Germans in some subtle way we no longer understand.

[BanzaiCat]

Nonsense. If it's bigger, it HAS to be better.

See: Maus, Ratte, etc.

[ArizonaTank]

I'm in the fake photo camp.  The shadow underneath the vehicle stops after the front wheels.  For it to carry 120 it would have to be much longer.  Also, you would see something of the back wheels.  A shadow or something.  Finally, the gaps between wheel plates seems to be inconsistent between the wheels.

[Staggerwing]

It's definitely a fake. The vehicle is lit from the front and the lamp post is lit from behind. You can see the lamppost's shadow across the rubble in front of it.