I think that the rules and regs as laid down by the tank museum are their's and their's alone, we can all judge at to where we go if we do not agree with some things. Living history can be very hard to get right in a lot of peoples eyes, be it lack of "real equipment" and the cost of sourcing this, so a compromise has to be made me thinks, and good luck to them all.
I think that having a general discussion on the merits of this thread is good and should be in the same vein as all discussions we have here on the forum, hats off to the people for disclosing the information, I think we need to therefore cool down and continue the thread before things get personal.
At the moment there are some good views and bad views, but that is life and everyone to their own (as they say)