Torvogn m/30

Designed by Otto og Mattis , a northerner and sami who designed it ca.1930-1934 and had one working prototype in time for the Panservogn Trials where the Panservogn m/35 ultimately won the contest. Whilst their design offered superior speed and handling to the others it had far less armour and the L/35 37mm Hotchkiss was lack luster. Instad of abandoning the design all together it was back to the drawing board, and this time they wanted to see if it was able to make it amphibious. 
When the Royal Norwegian Navy caught wind of this new project in 1936, they reached out and showed intrest in amphibious warfare.. The "Torvogn" was light and relatively hydrodynamic. As a new variant was developed for the navy the 37mm Hotchkiss was removed and replaced with a water-cooled domestically produced Colt HMG.
After trials the newly designated "Torvogn (KF)" proved seaworthy, albeit rather slow whilst in the water.
Earning it's name after the Norse god of thunder "Tor" due to the distinct banging noise the tank would produce when making more than 15kh/h.
*troubles in production led to only 10 of the 30 ordered from O&M, with this funding stopped and project scrapped. out of the 10 made only 5 saw any notable use in combat, the others where in a state of disrepair at the time of the war.
*The most notable use of the "Torvogn (KF)" was in December 1940 when 4 were launched from the British heavy cruiser "Devonshire" to break through the ice and provide fire-support for landingcraft making their way to the city of Moss in order relieve the exhausted Norwegian and French defenders who had retreated to the island of "Jeløya" and push back the German force occupying the city and it's industrial plant.*
=== Fate of the Prototype ===
when Narvik was under siege by the Germans the main headquarters and warehouse that was housing the First Prototype was hit by a bomb from a German Aircraft. The warehouse took the brunt of the damage, the original trial prototype and the Christie Mattis Modell 1934 where destroyed.
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