The NLVT(X) [Lit; Naval Landing Vehicle Tracked, Expermental] or NACT(X) [Lit; Naval Amphibious Craft Experimental] as it was later known was possibly the largest amphibian
ever built. Conceived by the Royal Navy during World War two it was finally built by Vicker Armstrong and finished in March 1952. The concept was obviously for a vehicle
capable of carrying large amounts of stores from ship directly to the suppy points on beachheads rather than having to tranship them by truck from the waterline.
The sole example underwent extensive trials during 1953-54 and a number of defects were corrected before it was decided that perhaps the existing fleet of DUKWs were more
flexible and the project was abandoned.
It was also proposed that Hospital and command versions were to be built which is where the Army became interested but once they realised, with horror, that the vehicles
would be the largest moving targets in existance they quickly disassociated themselves from it and the project finally ended.
