Churchill AVRE Bobbin

The Bobbin was designed to lay a 10foot wide "carpet" on clay sections of beach to provide a temporary roadway off the beaches. The carpet was made of coir matting strengthened with scaffolding tubes and held aloft on a frame in front of the Churchill. By lowering the end of the mat, the Churchill could unroll it by advancing over the mat leaving a temporary road behind it. As with other Churchill AVRE it was armed with the Petard Mortar which fired a 'flying dustbin' 18kg HE projectile.

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