How the Telegraph Tank warmed Sir Max Hastings s bum and carried his typewriter through the Falklands War
The Scorpion reconnaissance vehicle is still operating today in Eden Camp museum in North Yorkshire
29 December 2020 • 6:30am
Scorpion callsign 23A driving at the Eden Camp museum in Malton, North Yorkshire
Credit: Charlotte Graham
Sir Max Hastings, the former Daily Telegraph editor, is credited with being the first journalist to enter Port Stanley at the end of the Falklands War.
That he was able to get there first, ahead of energetic and equally hungry colleagues such as Robert Fox (still interviewing in the trenches today as Defence correspondent for the Evening Standard), was partly down to a Scorpion reconnaissance vehicle of the Household Cavalry.