[1] The chassis was equipped after arrival with an improvised turret and ordinary iron plates for armour and was armed with a Colt M/29 heavy machine gun, making it Norway's first ever tank.

[2][3] The name "Norgestanken" was a humorous invention,[2] playing on the fact that the word tanken in Norwegian means both "the tank" and "the thought", making it a pun.

The purchase of the tank by the Norwegian government happened on the background of the increased tension in Europe preceding the Second World War.

[2] The brakes were also found to be too weak, with the tank once ending up crashed against a tree during a field exercise in Trøndelag.

[1][7] In the January 1938 lecture "Panservogner for opklaring og marsjsikring i Norge" (Armoured vehicles for reconnaissance and protection during the march in Norway) at the officers' society Oslo Militære Samfund,[8] Colonel Christopher Fougner pointed out that the single tank in the Norwegian armoury was completely insufficient to train the country's soldiers in anti-armour warfare.

[9] On 9 April 1940, when the Germans invaded Norway, the tank and the three armoured cars were stored in the depot of Dragoon Regiment 1 at Gardermoen.

[10] When Dragoon Regiment 1 finished its mobilization at 03:00 on 10 April and moved out to oppose the invading German forces they left both the tank and the armoured cars behind.