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Unique ID: 1632 Added to Database: 27 March 2011 Last Edited: 20 March 2012 Type (ID): A1E1 Independent (3740) Model (ID): A1E1 Independent (3740) Location Category (ID): The Tank Museum - Public Areas (3000) Location (ID): Interwar / Alan Jolly Hall (3008) Serial Number: Registration: T1020: “T1020” painted on nose. Name: Other Identification: Painted overall in a green and brown camouflage scheme (previously overall green). Collection Reference: E1949.331. (Accession 33149, Entry 1010). Links: Museum Vehicle Record References: Associated Tanks: Location History: (see map) 1: Vickers-Armstrongs Limited, Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North East England, Britain (Manufacturer of sole prototype 1926) 2: Aldershot Military Museum and MWEE, Aldershot, Hampshire, South East England, Britain (Trials ca1927 presumed at MWEE) 3: ATDU and Solitary Vehicles, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Bovington Camp defence summer 1940) 4: The Tank Museum - Public Areas, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Current location) 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: This A1E1 was the only one built. It took part in a firepower demonstration for a conference of the Prime Ministers of British Dominions in November 1926. Trials at Farnborough (presumed to have been at the nearby MWEE at Aldershot) revealed that it was very difficult to steer, due primarily to long ground contact and narrow hull. It was abandoned in 1935 and sent to the Royal Tank Corps at Bovington. It was reputedly used as part of the defences of Bovington Camp in the summer of 1940. It found its way to the museum in 1949.

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March 2011 1: Front left view Taken: 7 March 2011 Contributor: M. Foti Photo ID: 6837 Added: 18 March 2012 Filename: 55310113... Views: 623 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		2: Front left view Taken: 7 March 2011 Contributor: M. Foti Photo ID: 6838 Added: 18 March 2012 Filename: 55310110... Views: 272 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
October 2008 3: Front left view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 4692 Added: 28 March 2011 Filename: P1030392... Views: 235 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		4: Front view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 4693 Added: 28 March 2011 Filename: P1030404... Views: 275 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		5: Front right view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 4694 Added: 28 March 2011 Filename: P1030405... Views: 369 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
6: Left view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 4695 Added: 28 March 2011 Filename: P1030395... Views: 258 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		7: Rear left view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 4696 Added: 28 March 2011 Filename: P1030396... Views: 244 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		8: Rear view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 4697 Added: 28 March 2011 Filename: P1030401... Views: 253 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
9: Rear right view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 4698 Added: 28 March 2011 Filename: P1030402... Views: 288 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		10: Rear right view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 4699 Added: 28 March 2011 Filename: P1030403... Views: 185 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		11: Front left view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 4700 Added: 28 March 2011 Filename: P1030393... Views: 202 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
October 1982 12: Front left view Taken: 26 October 1982 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 6658 Added: 6 February 2012 Filename: Scan_A1E... Views: 242 Select/Has Priority: 21/0

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