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