Bovington Tank Museum 2011

Airframes · Sep 10, 2011

Great stuff Karl. Got to say, 'we' designed some pretty awful tanks in the early days !

rochie · Sep 10, 2011

Airframes said:
Great stuff Karl. Got to say, 'we' designed some pretty awful tanks in the early days !

we sure did and as Garry said we give them crap names as well !!!!!!

A4K · Sep 11, 2011

The Chieftain and Challenger sure put those problems to rest!

rochie · Sep 12, 2011

Churchill

the Black Prince

A4K · Sep 12, 2011

Great shots Karl! The Churchill does look damn good there...

Airframes · Sep 12, 2011

Good stuff Karl. That early Churchill is a strange set up - sort of a mix of old and new ideas.

Gnomey · Sep 12, 2011

Nice shots Karl!

rochie · Sep 18, 2011

Comet

Airframes · Sep 18, 2011

Good stuff Karl. That early Centurion must be sitting on a very strong stand !

T Bolt · Sep 18, 2011

Crimea_River · Sep 18, 2011

rochie · Sep 18, 2011

cheers guys and Terry thanks for the correction on the Centurion, thought it was a later Comet version

Airframes · Sep 18, 2011

No problem mate. I think the middle one is either a Cromwell or Centaur - never can remember - from which the Comet, and then the Centurion developed.

Gnomey · Sep 18, 2011

Good shots Karl!

rochie · Sep 19, 2011

Airframes said:
No problem mate. I think the middle one is either a Cromwell or Centaur - never can remember - from which the Comet, and then the Centurion developed.

you may be right with Cromwell, must pay more attention to the info instead of pointing and saying "ooh ooh look at that one" next time

A4K · Sep 19, 2011

Great shots Karl!

rochie · Sep 19, 2011

cheers mate, must get on resizing the more modern stuff and the one or two wierd tanks in there

the lancaster kicks ass · Sep 19, 2011

Hi, hopefully you wont mind me jumping in with a couple of my shots from Bovington as there have been requests for these, if I'm ever back there I'll let you know! Apologies my camera isn't the best! Indeed their Tiger 131 is the only running one in the world. In one of these shots you'll see a gantry over the Tiger, she was being maintained and they took the engine out, you could see right into the engine bay. You'll kick me for this but I'm afraid I didn't take any pictures as they wouldn't have come out very well.