TrevorLarkum's Blog

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

Preserved Tanks - Preserved Tanks in Switzerland

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:51:00 GMT

I have been very fortunate to have permission to add to the website a large number of photo's from Massimo Foti of vehicles at the Thun and Full collections in Switzerland. I have combined these with information from my original work on Thun, and photographs I took there in 1984, to produce a new section of the website:

Preserved Tanks in Switzerland

For example, here's the King Tiger that was previously at Thun and is now being restored at Full:

If you have any information on these vehicles, or any photographs of vehicles there that are currently without photographs, then please contact me (trevor-larkum at armourarchive.co.uk). In the meantime, enjoy!

Preserved Tanks - Preserved Tanks In France

Mon, 25 May 2009 18:09:42 GMT

As I haven't blogged for a while it may look like things have gone quiet here - but the opposite is true. With the 65th anniversary of D-Day on the horizon, I have spent the last few months producing a Third Edition of Preserved Tanks In France. It has been quite a challenge, and has grown in size from the original 72 pages to a very substantial 154 pages. The aim has simply been to produce the best and most complete guide for visitors touring the D-Day battlefields, and further afield.

It is now available to buy from here:

Armour Archive Storefront

That's as much hard sell as I'm going to do here. Go to that link for more information, or visit ArmourArchive. As ever, everything on PreservedTanks.com remains free, and the content of the new Third Edition of PTIF will be put online here as soon as I'm able. The first chapter, covering tanks on display around Normandy, is already taking shape - just look for a Normandy link.