The Tiger Tank Restoration project

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These pages contain a selection of Tiger Tank photographs
from the Tank Museum collection. For further information,
prices, and how to order, click the link below any photo.

Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 2907/C/5 Camouflaged Tiger ditched by a roadside, possibly Italy 1945. Two road wheels missing on the right side and evidence of frontal penetration on the driver's side. Remains in front of the tank appear to be a British Universal Carrier.	Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No 2398/E/2. Knocked out Tiger on the Russian front in the winter of 1943. Possibly sPz Abt 502. Notice the missing front, outer roadwheel and evidence of snow camouflage scheme.
Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No 2907/C/3. British 8th Army soldiers examining a late production Tiger in Italy, in April 1945. According to the original official caption the tank was destroyed with a PIAT (Projector Infantry Anti Tank) weapon.	Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 0660/A/4. A Tiger in a sorry state in Italy. It lies abandoned, with turret reversed and clearly carries the later style cupola. Rubber tyres are missing from the road wheels but there is no obvious evidence of fire damage. Efforts have been made to salvage the tank and the towing bars appear to be of the German pattern as carried on Bergepanther.
Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 5089/E/6. Another abandoned Tiger in Italy, this time with a small boy sitting on top. It is Zimmeritt coated and has a full set of road wheels. No official caption exists but, failing evidence of battle damage it may well be a case of mechanical failure. A length of very thin line, too thin to tow with, is tied to the nearer front shackle point and leads to the log. Brackets on the turret side, to hold spare track links, indicate a tank built between March and June 1943.	Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 2397/A/6. The original print is dated 29 June 1944 and the location given is the Rauray Road in Normandy, in the area of Hill 112. The dead infantryman in the foreground is British. The Tiger, probably knocked out by Allied artillery is possibly from SSPz Abt 101 of 1st SS Panzer Korps, part of battlegroup Weidinger. German troops are in action here against British 49th (West Riding) Division.
Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 2399/C/4. Rough country trials of an early production Tiger travelling with its turret reversed.	Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 0293/C/1 Remains of a Tiger of sPz Abt 501 (whose symbol can be seen on the dislodged visor plate) knocked out on the Robaa Road in Tunisia on 20 January 1943 by six-pounder anti - tank guns of 72 Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery. Two Tigers were hit but one was recovered by the Germans. This, the leading tank, was destroyed, very thoroughly, by British troops to prevent recovery. It was the first Tiger to be examined in detail by British experts.
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