Just had a good look at that mat photo. Seems style overcame practicality. The "tags" bolted to the bottom of the mat are wonderful for holding it in the rack. I bet they were the first things to be taken off.
Designers in UK probably thought the tags would just sink into the sand and also stop the mats being shot backwards by the huge power of the British army vehicle. Unfortunately I think the people using them found the tags made them a pain in the a... to slide under the wheels and of course the first rock they rested on would bend the tags and make them impossible to put back in the rack.
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