mikeysoft

MANY thanks to all those who answered my question! Especially Willyslancs, steveo578, mcspool, and of course the new owner cladder! I drove past that T34 at work (BAE Warton) many times over the years and often wondered about it, and was sad to see it had vanished one day! I did wonder if it was used in Eurofighter RADAR trials as a sample tank for ground attack, as Warton at the RADAR development/trials site for Eurofighter (out of the four partner nations). 1) I was lucky to find this forum and it be the right forum to get the right answers! 2) I was lucky that the thread got some good replies and I got to find out it's likely origin 3) I was lucky to see detailed pics of it from it's new owner, and find out that it does in fact run! (something I used to wonder about) cladder - is there any possibility of having a high res photo of this tank from front 3/4 angle, including the full gun? Bit like the attached one (a high res version of that one would do if you have it) - so I can set it as my high res wallpaper? I'd really appreciate it. What are your plans for this tank? Is it in your own personal collection or is it part of an organisation's collection? Mike

Hi Willyslancs that was a rapid respond! As a local to Warton, do you know anything about this (now departed) T-34?! Mike

Hi I'm Mike, I work at BAE Systems Warton site in Lancashire developing avionics software for the Eurofighter Typhoon. For the last few years there has been a rusty T-34 sat on the south side of the airfield. This disappeared last year. So I did some digging on Google and found it had been up for auction with Peaker Pattinson (Auctioneers) Ltd in October 2009. I was always curious about this tank, where did it come from, what was it used for (it never moved in the last 5 years), etc. Does anyone know ANYTHING about this tank? What variant of T-34 & it's era (I know nothing of T-34s), it's history, who's bought it / what's become of it, etc.? The photo of it on the Peaker Pattinson auction brochure (PDF) is quite low quality, but would still probably be of use to a T-34 expert (ignore the main page photo, bigger photo further into the brochure): http://www.ppbid.com/online/579Flysheet.pdf MANY THANKS