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I love this museum. What strikes you if you know Bovington is how another museum could be so similar in size - one has more tanks and the other has more vehicles overall I think - and yet have so few duplicates. If you have seen one it does not follow that you have seen them all! In these pictures I have tried to focus on the differences.
Outside are several tanks on display, including this beautifully marked Sherman.... and behind a barrier the usual collection of work in progress |
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Schneider and St Chamond. |
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Just a few of the superb France 1940 collection |
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Staghound. |
Churchill IV |
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get up close to this Hanomag and you see how big it really is |
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welded-hull M3 Lee. |
Note the main gun is false and hides a door. I'm told this was an M31 Recovery tank |
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a line of StuGs and SPs |
Panther and Bergepanther |
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Tigers. The Tiger II is, I think, a runner and the Tiger I has the narrow transport track |
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Simca |
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POST-WAR M-26 |
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M47 |
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and, lurking in a corner, Merkava |
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outside is a comprehensive line-up of AMX-13 variants |
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AMX 30 and 40
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side by side - AMX-50 and ARL-2
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ELC-2, one of several modern prototypes on display. |
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British corner - familiar stuff, but who objects to looking at a Conqueror? |
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Pluton |
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