Friedrich Goeble, a German engineer from Riga, was one of Germany’s early tank pioneers who like Austria’s Gunther Burstyn and Australia’s de Mole was active in tank development way before their time. He invented the “Landkreuzer” (land cruiser) in 1913. This vehicle was very strange in appearance and functionality; instead of having a form of a track system like Burstyn’s and de Mole's vehicles, it had a set of “walking legs”, or pivoted legs that consequently had a slow gait like that on a child’s toy, which lurches down slopes on weighted legs. The vehicle utilized six legs, but had no means of steering. The vehicle itself was a standard German 4-ton NAG military truck. Goeble had built a model to demonstrate to the German War Office “commercial testing commission” by their request. The commission also requested a few basic requirements, including a 50 foot turning radius and an average speed of 7.5 mph. This design did not impress the commission, because upon testing the “Land cruiser” was found to be very impractical; it became stuck very easy, and as in the model demonstration, there was no form of steering.

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