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Unique ID:
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1632
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Added to Database:
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27 March 2011
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Last Edited:
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20 March 2012
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Type (ID):
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A1E1 Independent (3740)
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Model (ID):
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A1E1 Independent (3740)
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Location Category (ID):
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The Tank Museum - Public Areas (3000)
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Location (ID):
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Interwar / Alan Jolly Hall (3008)
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Registration: |
T1020: “T1020” painted on nose.
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Other Identification: |
Painted overall in a green and brown camouflage scheme (previously overall green).
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Collection Reference: |
E1949.331. (Accession 33149, Entry 1010).
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Links: |
Museum Vehicle Record
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Location History:
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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)
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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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Images - Photographs and NavPix (click to expand or browse)
March 2011
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1: Front left view
Taken: 7 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 6837
Added: 18 March 2012
Filename: 55310113...
Views: 557
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2: Front left view
Taken: 7 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 6838
Added: 18 March 2012
Filename: 55310110...
Views: 221
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
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