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Unique ID:
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2021
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Added to Database:
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2 January 2012
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Last Edited:
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24 March 2012
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Type (ID):
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FV4203 Centurion AVRE 105 (3540)
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Model (ID):
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Centurion AVRE 105 (3540)
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Location Category (ID):
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The Tank Museum - Reserve Collection (3016)
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Location (ID):
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Storage (3016)
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Serial Number: |
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Registration: |
44 BA 17: “44 BA 17” painted on top left of glacis.
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Collection Reference: |
E1997.70. (Accession 397).
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Links: |
Museum Vehicle Record
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Associated Tanks: |
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Location History:
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1: Leyland Motors, Farington, Lancashire, North West England, Britain (Built ca1955)
2: Sennelager Training Area, Paderborn, Detmold, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany (Service in BAOR ca1968-1977)
3: RAOC Vehicle Depot, Ludgershall, Wiltshire, South West England, Britain (1981)
4: Pearson Engineering – Newcastle, England (Presumed fitting of plough April 1981)
5: Vickers-Armstrongs Limited, Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North East England, Britain (Presumed remainder of conversion to AVRE April 1981)
6: The Tank Museum - Reserve Collection, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Current location)
7: The Tank Museum - Tankfest Arena, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Running at Tankfest 2000)
8: The Tank Museum - Reserve Collection, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Current location)
9: The Tank Museum - Tankfest Arena, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Static display at Tankfest 2006)
10: The Tank Museum - Reserve Collection, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Current location)
11: The Tank Museum - Tankfest Arena, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Running at Tankfest 2011)
12: The Tank Museum - Reserve Collection, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Current location)
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Text in original Preserved British Tanks publication:
[No entry]
Text in Preserved British Tanks Update:
[No entry]
Text in original Preserved Tanks In Britain publication:
Built by Leyland as Tank Combat Command Centurion Mark 12. Date in Service 12 August 1955. Subsequent locations: 17 Reserve Vehicle Depot BAOR, March 1968; 2 Armoured Delivery Squadron BAOR, March 1968; 1st Royal Horse Artillery BAOR, 1976; 40 Field Regiment RA, BAOR 1977; 27 Command Workshops, 1980; Vehicle Depot Ludgershall, 1981; T B Pearson & Sons, April 1981, Vickers Defence Systems, April 1981, Converted to 105mm AVRE, fitted for CLANSMAN. Gifted to Tank Museum, 5 May 1998. (Source: Museum Vehicle Record).
This Centurion is in running order. It took part in Tankfest 2000 when it carried the linkages for a dozer blade; by the time it took part in Tankfest 2006 the linkages had been removed. It has since taken part in Tankfest 2011.
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