TrevorLarkum's Blog

Preserved Tanks - Preserved Tanks in Italy and UK

Tue, 1 Nov 2011 04:57:06 GMT

Catch-up, continued. From January to February I worked with Massimo Foti on adding some more locations in Italy, for example:

Museo Storico della Motorizzazione Militare, Cecchignola

Caserma Fratelli De Carli, Cordenons

Defence Line Emplacements, Tagliamento River

Preserved Tanks in Italy

In March I began work on writing up Bovington Tank Museum, a huge task that I have not yet finished:

Bovington Tank Museum, Wareham

Bovington Camp ATDU and Solitary Vehicles

I also wrote up the Lulworth Ranges:

Royal Armoured Corps Gunnery School, Lulworth Camp

Preserved Tanks in Britain

Preserved Tanks - Preserved Tanks in USA

Sat, 1 Oct 2011 00:15:43 GMT

I can't believe I haven't posted for a year - it's not that I haven't been busy developing the site, rather that I've been too busy doing it. Anyway, I'll try to post more often, beginning with a catch-up.

From August last year to January this year I worked on updating the status of the Patton Museum at Fort Knox, particularly the changes caused by BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) and the movement of vehicles from FK to Fort Benning:

Preserved Tanks at Fort Knox

BRAC Transfer, Fort Knox

Preserved Tanks at Fort Benning

In parallel I added entries for Fort Irwin, Mississippi Armed Forces Museum, Lewis Army Museum and the Patton Museum in California:

Preserved Tanks at Fort Irwin

Preserved Tanks at Mississippi Armed Forces Museum

Preserved Tanks at Lewis Army Museum

Preserved Tanks at Patton Museum, California

Between them these have helped fill out the America section, though there is still a lot of work to do:

Preserved Tanks in USA

Preserved Tanks - Preserved Tanks in Egypt

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 02:39:25 GMT

My thanks go to Ian Holloway who contacted me, having seen the item on Preserved Tanks in Italy, and provided photo's of preserved Italian and other tanks in Egypt. This prompted me to start a new page and it can be seen here:

Preserved Tanks in Egypt

Meanwhile I have continued to work with Massimo Foti to track down vehicles around Switzerland, and we have managed to make great progress there:

Preserved Tanks in Switzerland

For example, here's the Panzerwagen 39 in the Thun SHP collection:

Closer to home I have continued to work on tanks around the UK, and early results can be seen here:

Preserved Tanks in Britain

The highlight for me so far is the excellent Muckleburgh Collection - highly recommended!

Muckleburgh Collection

In addition I have made a large number of code improvements to the website, including listing tanks previously seen at each collection, better formatting, information on factories, etc. I hope you like it.

Preserved Tanks - Preserved Tanks in Italy

Fri, 1 Jan 2010 02:48:48 GMT

A busy month - and two bits of good news:

Firstly, with Massimo Foti, who made the major contribution to Preserved Tanks in Switzerland, I am currently working on Preserved Tanks in Italy. Although it is still a work-in-progress it is shaping up well so it's time to make it available for everyone:

Preserved Tanks in Italy

Keep an eye on it over the next few weeks as it is developing fast.

Secondly, the site recently underwent a major upgrade. The most obvious changes are that photographs are now displayed at a much higher resolution when you click through to them, and also there is now a specific Profile page for each tank in the database that contains all the information for that tank in one place. As an example, here's the new Profile page for the Tiger II at Full mentioned in a previous blog:

Swiss King Tiger

More upgrades are planned for the new year.

Preserved Tanks - Preserved Tanks in England

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 04:59:05 GMT

It has been a busy few months for me, which ironically means the blog went rather quiet. I am working on a number of new areas of the website. Collection visits have included the Isle of Wight Tank Museum and the Dinscott collection, as I am now actively working on Preserved Tanks in England.

Here are some example links as a taster:

Preserved Tanks In Lincolnshire

Preserved Tanks In Wiltshire