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Thanks guys, I have taken some notes and will come back to these.

If you do, please take as many photos as you can, in particular to try to count and identify the various HSTs and other vehicles: Sam Winer Motors

Good point. I don't yet have many Abbots online, but they are on my to-do list - I hope at that point I can also add yours. This is what I have so far: Preserved Abbots

Thanks, Robert - I'll add it to my to-do list and get back to you when I can write it up, if that's ok. I currently have a bit of a backlog. It's certainly a very interesting vehicle.

Here's an update: Unique ID 1834: Type 69 Tank at Armourgeddon Iain, as usual any information you can provide on its previous location(s) much appreciated.

Here's an update on this Centurion: Unique ID: 1837: Centurion Tank at Armourgeddon Iain, do you have a location for where it was with the Royal Engineers?

I agree but I don't add locations without some evidence (it could equally be said of most post-war British military vehicles) - maybe she went no further than Larkhill. Perhaps someone will come up with a service history or photographic evidence from its registration: "07 EB 65".

True: But what a rarity!

Thank you! Location History and Map updated: http://preservedtanks.com/Profile.aspx?UniqueID=1835

I have a little bit more on it here: Unique ID 215: King Tiger 104 at Bovington and a pic from Shrivenham: This is the Tiger II page: Preserved Tiger II Tanks

Iain: I've added information and photos from this thread, thanks. Can you say where the scrapyard was that it came from, so I can get its background history correct? Everyone else: here it is as it looks now: Unique ID 1835: Abbot at Armourgeddon And a view into the turret through the top hatch (taken with the camera on a monopod):

Very nice! Looks a bit like a Sherman chassis but smaller, Stuart or HST -based maybe?

Of course, there's the cost of transportation - perhaps we should all club together and bring over 40 of them in a job lot!

I've added a couple of Iain's pictures of its arrival: Unique ID 1833: Armourgeddon M4 HST Iain, where was it directly before it came to you? I try to make each entry as complete and accurate as possible (it may also help with value since it gives each vehicle provenance, like an Old Master!).

This is what I have on the one at Full, maybe it can help: Unique ID 219: Tiger II at Full

They're not that expensive - Sam Winer is supposed to still have about 40 in stock! He's also got the rarer M6 HST at $7k and T94 Cargo Tractor at $10k.

I've added a selection of 'milestone' photos from the restoration so far: Unique ID 1841: Armourgeddon M4 (105)

This is what I have on this tank on PreservedTanks.com: Chieftain at DTD I haven't yet updated the entry for the move to Bovington.

Agreed!

Thanks guys!

Here's the PTC entry for this M4 HST: Unique ID 1833: M4 HST, Armourgeddon, Husbands Bosworth . Iain: please check it for accuracy and omissions when you can, thanks. Everyone else: please consider this a status update! Hanno, do you have a likely or at least representative location for its use in the Netherlands? It's for the map of its previous locations.

Thanks, Iain, I'll get on to it! Adrian, you wouldn't happen to have any pictures would you, by any chance? I have nothing before it appeared at Poteau.

Robin, I visited Borden in 2008 and took hundreds of pictures that I haven't yet put online. Any pictures of the tanks at the Ottawa museum, however, would be much appreciated. I was on a short-service commission: I was at Sandhurst and then Bovington through 1988, Deilinghofen/Hemer/Iserlohn 1989 - June 1990 as Troop Leader (including Hohne, BATUS, etc.), South Tyrone July-November 1990, finishing as a Second Captain at Bessbrook December 1990. We returned to Germany in 1991, and I was back out by August that year. I have some but like most ex-servicemen, I suspect, I regret now not taking more. I will endeavour to post what I have as soon as I can find them and the time.

I am very grateful for your time and the info you passed on - I fully appreciate the visit was a bit sprung on you, and you went out of your way to help. Nice jeep ride, too! Looking good so far!

Iain, first off my heartfelt thanks to yourself and everyone at Armourgeddon for hosting us so well Sunday before last. My wife had bought the tank paintballing voucher for my birthday, and she and the girls really enjoyed coming along and learning to fight in the tank battle! My particular thanks to yourself for taking the time to show me the Sherman in your workshop. Since then I have been busy writing up Armourgeddon and its tank collection. The profile page for the collection is here. The complete collection page is here, but I'd like to go through each vehicle one by one with you to make sure I've got my facts right. The best place to start must be the Sherman: Unique ID 1841: M4 (105) Sherman Tanks, Armourgeddon, Husbands Bosworth Please check it through and let me know if there's any more information you can add. Also, can I add a selection of your photos from this forum (I'll post to show what I've used each time)? Hanno, can you give a specific, or at least representative, location for this?