This is my rebuild of M Brookfield's Mighty Antar, awarded first prize in an "M.M." competition and featured in the January 1963 Meccano Magazine. It was the first MM I saw after my parents took out a subscription for me. Having a mere No. 5 set at the time I was awestruck by this monster and it left me with an abiding love of Meccano trucks, however unobtainable. 60 years on, and with rather more Meccano at my disposal, I finally got to rebuild my own version in tribute to this prolific early modeller and prize-winner. The Norfolk Tank Museum site says "The Thorneycroft ANTAR was designed in the 1940s and the Mk 1 first entered service in 1951. The name Antar was intended as a flattering gesture to the primary customer for the vehicle, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. “Antar Ibn Shadded” was a pre-Islamic poet-warrior. Mighty Antar was the standard tank transporter for the British Army for decades, It had 10 wheels on 3 axles, 2 drive axles at the rear each with 2 pairs of wheels, the front axle, doing the steering was un-driven. The Antar was designed from the beginning as an off-road, heavy haulage vehicle. Mk 1 Mighty Antar was a fixed steel body based tractor unit powered by a V8 Meteorite engine built under licence by the Rover car company. The Meteorite was a cut-down version of the Rolls Royce V12 Meteor used in the Centurion tank family which was itself a version of the Merlin aero engine. The first Antars entered British Army service as FV12001, Tractor 30 ton GS 6X4 and were paired with the Dyson FV 3601 trailer used to carry the new, heavy, Centurion tanks."