Some Soho revellers thought they’d had one too many on Friday evening when a tank came rolling down Dean Street. The green Abbot Self-Propelled Gun, which later made its way triumphantly down Oxford Street, was also seen in St James and around the major tourist destinations.
We tracked it down to a specialist tank experience website called Tanks-A-Lot. Company owner Nick Mead, who owns over 300 tanks, told us the Abbot SPG was hired by the wife of a wealthy foreign businessman for his birthday. The client, who was driven in the tank along central London streets, was keen to see sights including Big Ben and Trafalgar Square. The experience was priced at around £6,000, plus delivery from the Tanks-A-Lot yard in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
