Preserved Tanks .com
    World Register of Surviving Historic Armoured Vehicles

Current Query: By Location.

Query Buttons: Full entry for this tank. All tanks of this type. All tanks at this location.


UNIQUE ID 2029: A22 CHURCHILL CROCODILE FLAME-THROWING TANK

Defence College of Management and Technology, Shrivenham, Britain

(Location: Status Unknown)


Powered By Subgurim(http://googlemaps.subgurim.net).Google Maps ASP.NET
Powered By Subgurim(http://googlemaps.subgurim.net).Google Maps ASP.NET

MAP CONTROLS: Use slider or mousewheel to zoom, and hold down left mouse button to drag.
KEY: Location markers are coloured from Green meaning exact to Red meaning gone or unknown (details here)

Sample Photo from Tank with UniqueID 2029


Unique ID: 2029
Added to Database: 3 January 2012
Last Edited: 19 April 2014
Type (ID): A22 Churchill Crocodile (3900)
Model (ID): Churchill Crocodile (3900)
Location Category (ID): Defence College of Management and Technology (3110)
Location (ID): Status Unknown (3114)
Serial Number:
Registration: T347847M: “T347847M” painted on nose.
Name:
Other Identification: “25” painted on right side of turret front. Green squares painted on turret sides. Unit markings painted on ends of track guards.
Collection Reference: Bovington: E1980.121, (Accession 12180, Entry 1980.1043).
Links: Museum Vehicle Record
References:
Associated Tanks: FV3903 Churchill Mark VII AVRE Tank - The Tank Museum - Reserve Collection, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Transferred to Bovington in exchange for this tank)

Location History:
(see map)

1: Vauxhall Motors Limited, Luton, Bedfordshire, East England, Britain (Churchill design parent and primary manufacturer)
2: The Tank Museum - Public Areas, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (ca1980-2002)
3: Defence College of Management and Technology, Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, South East England, Britain (Current location)


This Crocodile was put on the Bovington museum books in 1980. Its left side air intake has been replaced by a sheet metal box. Marked ‘GONE’ in museum record on 11 January 2002. It was exchanged, less its trailer, for a Churchill AVRE and sent to RMCS Shrivenham for instructional purposes.

Images - Photographs and NavPix (click to expand or browse)

October 1982

Front left view
1: Front left view

Taken: 26 October 1982
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6755
Added: 15 February 2012
Filename: Scan_Chu...
Views: 224
Select/Has Priority: 21/0