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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.
Bovington Camp (/ ˈ b ɒ v ɪ ŋ t ən /) is a British Army military base in Dorset, South West England.Together with Lulworth Camp it forms part of Bovington Garrison.. The garrison is home to The Armour Centre and contains two barracks complexes and two forest and heathland training areas that support Phase Two training for soldiers of the Royal Armoured Corps and trade training for the ...
Constructed in the autumn of 1915 at the behest of the Landship Committee, it was the first completed tank prototype in history. Little Willie is the oldest surviving individual tank, and is preserved as one of the most famous pieces in the collection of The Tank Museum, Bovington, England.
The Tank Museum, the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment, is at Bovington Camp in Dorset [67] The Worcester Soldier galleries (for the Worcestershire Regiment and the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars) is part of the Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum [68] The York and Lancaster Regimental Museum is based at Clifton Park in Rotherham [69]
Tiger 131 at The Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset, England, 2017. In December 2003, Tiger 131 returned to the museum with a working engine, making it the only operable Tiger tank in the world and the most popular exhibit at the museum. [ 14 ]
He was an employee of The Tank Museum, Bovington from 1982 until December 2012, becoming the museum's longest serving member of staff. [2] Earlier that year, he was a panellist on Operation Think Tank, an international symposium on tanks, held in California. [3] He also presents contemporary media such as YouTube for the Tank Museum. [4]
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Chieftain display at the Bovington tank museum, 2006. The design of the Chieftain included a heavily sloped hull and turret which greatly increased the effective thickness of the frontal armour – 388 mm (15.3 in) on the glacis (from an actual thickness of 120 mm (4.7 in)) and 390 mm (15.4 in) on the turret (from 195 mm (7.7 in)). [3]