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The museum has the world's largest collection of armoured fighting vehicles and contains well over 880 vehicles, although The Tank Museum in Bovington in Dorset has a larger number of tanks. Because of shortage of space, less than a quarter can be exhibited, despite the move to a much larger building in 1993.
In college he built his first remote control scale model tank. He obtained his first full-size military vehicle in 1975, a World War II era M3 Scout Car . In 1998 he set up the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation to manage his collection of over 150 vehicles and restore more.
Another view of the model at The Tank Museum, UK. The tank was fitted with two pairs of caterpillar tracks . The outer tracks resembled those of the Mark I, but were flatter and 61 centimetres wide, while a pair of additional, narrower tracks were fitted to the underside approximately 6 inches higher than the main tracks.
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The TOG 2, officially known as the Heavy Tank, TOG II, was a British super-heavy tank design produced during the early stages of World War II for a scenario where the battlefields of northern France devolved into a morass of mud, trenches, and craters as had happened during World War I. When this did not happen, the tank was deemed unnecessary ...
Landsverk L-30 (Swedish Army designation: stridsvagn försöksmodell 1931, abbr. strv fm/31, "tank trial model-1931") was a Swedish late interwar era medium tank constructed by AB Landsverk for the Swedish Army between 1930 [4] and 1935, [2] featuring welded armour joints and a "wheel-cum-track system", allowing for interchangeable wheeled and tracked propulsion.
The Hotchkiss H35 or Char léger modèle 1935 H was a French cavalry tank developed prior to World War II.Despite having been designed from 1933 as a rather slow but well-armoured light infantry support tank, the type was initially rejected by the French Infantry because steering proved difficult during cross-country use, and was instead adopted in 1936 by the French Cavalry arm.
The Tank Museum (previously the Bovington Tank Museum) is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Wool and 12 miles (19 km) west of the major port of Poole. The collection traces the history of the tank with almost 300 vehicles on display.