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UNIQUE ID 73: TIGER TANK

(Model: Early Production Model)

Wheatcroft Collection, Leicester, Britain

(Location: Wheatcroft Collection)


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Unique ID: 73
Added to Database: May 2008
Last Edited: 10 May 2010
Type (ID): Tiger (170)
Model (ID): Early Production Model (300)
Location Category (ID): Wheatcroft Collection (3510)
Location (ID): Wheatcroft Collection (3510)
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Location History:
(see map)

1: Wegmann & Co, Kassel, Nordhessen, Germany (Turret manufacturer)
2: Henschel und Sohn, Kassel, Nordhessen, Germany (Chassis manufacturer and vehicle assembly)
3: Bad Fallingbostel, Germany (November 1942)
4: Reggio di Calabria, Italy (Staging point)
5: Bizerte, Tunisia (Staging point)
6: U.S. Army Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Harford County, Maryland, USA (1943-1989)
7: Auto und Technik Museum, Sinsheim, Rhine Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (From 1989)
8: BWB Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung, Koblenz, Koblenz District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (Early 1990s)
9: Panzermuseum, Munster, Soltau-Fallingbostel, Lower Saxony, Germany (Until c.2001)
10: Wheatcroft Collection, Leicester, Leicestershire, East Midlands, Britain (Current location)


After Koblenz this Tiger went to the Munster Panzermuseum, and was there for some time in the late 1990s. It then went on loan to the Wheatcroft Collection in England in about 2001.

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

2000

Right view
1: Right view

Taken: 2000 (Estimated)
Contributor: J. Lewis
Photo ID: 3199
Added: 10 May 2010
Filename: 31708660...
Views: 841
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July 1983

Right view (at APG)
2: Right view (at APG)

Taken: 9 July 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 851
Added: 10 December 2008
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 463
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Left view (at APG)
3: Left view (at APG)

Taken: 9 July 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 852
Added: 10 December 2008
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 1071
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Front right view (at APG)
4: Front right view (at APG)

Taken: 9 July 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 853
Added: 10 December 2008
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 527
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Front left view (at APG)
5: Front left view (at APG)

Taken: 9 July 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 854
Added: 10 December 2008
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 1060
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Front view (at APG)
6: Front view (at APG)

Taken: 9 July 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 855
Added: 10 December 2008
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 5119
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September 1978

Rear left view
7: Rear left view

Taken: September 1978
Contributor: J. Lewis
Photo ID: 3198
Added: 10 May 2010
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 763
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1943

“A Tiger tank captured in Tunis, 1943” - this photo shows “712” soon after capture and with an American crew - note the
8: “A Tiger tank captured in Tunis, 1943” - this photo show...

Taken: 1943
Contributor: Wikimedia
Photo ID: 3197
Added: 7 May 2010
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 6013
Select/Has Priority: 22/0