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The museum includes several exhibits dedicated to the history of armored combat in general, including: Model room with dozens of tanks; Full-scale models of: An armored knight; Assyrian and Egyptian chariots; Leonardo da Vinci's sketches of a proposed armed vehicle; Stamp collection, featuring tanks and other armored vehicles
The tank museum had its early origins in a study collection. It is still a State institution funded by the Army, but it is managed by the Association des Amis du Musée des Blindés which publishes a substantial yearly magazine and encourages membership from the public. There is also a separate traditional horse cavalry museum in the town of ...
Military Technical Museum Lešany; Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution; Military Museum, Belgrade; Muckleburgh Collection; Musée des Blindés; Museum of armoured vehicles Smržovka; Armored Weaponry Museum, Poznań
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.
The tank could place demolition charges at heights up to 12 feet. The tank was driven against a wall, the framework was lowered into the ground against the wall. The tank then backed up 100 feet laying out an electric detonating cable. The explosives were then detonated by the tank driver. It was the successor to the single-charge device "Carrot".
The first version of the vehicle was built in 1940 by Standard Motor Company at the instigation of Lord Beaverbrook, then Minister of Aircraft Production (hence the name Beaverette). It was based on commercial car chassis, on which a simple riveted armoured hull was mounted. The 11mm of steel was backed by 3 inch thick oak planks. [1]
In 2017 the Norfolk Tank Museum was approached by Channel 4 with the idea of building a replica Mark IV Female for the TV show Guy Martin's WWI Tank. The hull and many other larger components were manufactured by JCB, with Chasetead manufacturing the track pads, exhaust system, and smaller components. The parts were then sent to the museum for ...
It displays various tanks, armoured vehicles and anti-tank guns used by the Finnish Defence Forces throughout their history, including Leopard 2A4 tank which is in present service. Rare exhibits are an armoured train used in World War II and the only surviving example of BT-42 assault gun. The museum was opened on June 18, 1961, when there were ...