MAP CONTROLS: Use slider or mousewheel to zoom, and hold down left mouse button
to drag.
KEY: Location markers are coloured from Green meaning exact to Red meaning
gone or unknown (details here)
|
|
Unique ID:
|
1980
|
|
Added to Database:
|
30 December 2011
|
|
Last Edited:
|
22 March 2012
|
|
Type (ID):
|
AMX-13 (6270)
|
|
Model (ID):
|
AMX-13/75 (6280)
|
|
Location Category (ID):
|
The Tank Museum - Public Areas (3000)
|
|
Location (ID):
|
Post War (British Steel Hall) (3014)
|
|
Serial Number: |
“212” stamped into plate welded to top right glacis.
|
|
Registration: |
2440203 (source: Tank Museum Record). “2480316” painted on nose and right rear mud flap.
|
|
Name: |
“NORMANDIE” painted on superstructure sides.
|
|
Other Identification: |
“4” inside a bomb emblem stencilled on turret sides. “ARE 1B No 181” stamped into plate welded to top right glacis. “1B – ARE–98” stamped into plate welded to top right glacis. “ERGMEB GIEN 4 ECHILLON REPAATION DATE 4.2.64” stamped into plate welded to top right glacis.
|
|
Collection Reference: |
E1969.54. (Accession 5469, Entry 1969.1012).
|
|
Links: |
Museum Vehicle Record
|
|
References: |
|
|
Associated Tanks: |
|
Location History:
(see map) |
1: FCM – La Seyne, France (Built February 1953)
2: Atelier de Construction Roanne (ARE), Roanne, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France (Upgraded January 1957)
3: Tank Collection, E.R.G.M.E.B., Gien, France (Reworked February 1964)
4: Museé Des Blindés, Saumur, Anjou, Maine-et-Loire, France (Until April 1969)
5: The Tank Museum - Public Areas, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Current location)
6: Dunlop – Birmingham, England (On loan 1986-7)
7: The Tank Museum - Public Areas, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Current location)
|
Text in original Preserved French Tanks publication:
[No entry]
Text in Preserved French Tanks Update:
[No entry]
Text in original Preserved Tanks In Britain publication:
This AMX-13 was received from Saumur, France, in April 1969. It is a Modèle 51 fitted with a 75mm gun. It was loaned to Dunlop 1986-7 (this is presumed to be Dunlop Tyres at TyreFort, Birmingham). The museum’s record for this vehicle give the following details: “Turret built by S.F.A.G. Plaque on left side of interior reads ‘Tourelle FL10 Type Fives Lille/Constructeur SFAG/No 1003’. Armed with 75mm SA50 gun. Stamped on breech is ‘DTH/CN-75-50/No. 154/ABS – 1952’. Plaque in driver’s compartment reads ‘Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranee Vehicle Type AMX 13T/Serie No. 212/Date 23.2.53/Atelier de Construction de Roanne/Revise le 3.1.57 Serie 1P 191/Type Chassis C1’. Rework record stamped on glacis reads: ‘212/ARE 1R/No. 191/1 R/ARE 98/ERGMEB GIEN 4 ECHELON REPARATION/DATE 4.2.64’ ”.
|
March 2011
|
| | | |  | | | | |
1: Front right view
Taken: 11 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 7158
Added: 24 March 2012
Filename: 58317157...
Views: 161
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | | | | |
2: Front view
Taken: 8 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 7157
Added: 24 March 2012
Filename: 58317077...
Views: 168
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | | | | |
3: Front right view
Taken: 7 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 7155
Added: 24 March 2012
Filename: 58317020...
Views: 195
Select/Has Priority: 21/21
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | | | | |
4: Front left view
Taken: 7 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 7156
Added: 24 March 2012
Filename: 58316948...
Views: 193
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
October 2008
|
| | | |  | | | | |
5: Front right view
Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6538
Added: 30 December 2011
Filename: P1030589...
Views: 219
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | | | | |
6: Front left view
Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6539
Added: 30 December 2011
Filename: P1030595...
Views: 173
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | | | | |
7: Front view
Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6540
Added: 30 December 2011
Filename: P1030594...
Views: 154
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | | | | |
8: Rear right view
Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6541
Added: 30 December 2011
Filename: P1030597...
Views: 163
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | | | | |
9: Right view
Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6542
Added: 30 December 2011
Filename: P1030590...
Views: 189
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | | | | |
10: Close-up of registration number
Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6543
Added: 30 December 2011
Filename: P1030596...
Views: 154
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | | | | |
11: Upgrade plates on glacis
Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6544
Added: 30 December 2011
Filename: P1030591...
Views: 151
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | | | | |
12: Close-up
Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6545
Added: 30 December 2011
Filename: P1030592...
Views: 152
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
|
| | | |  | | | | |
13: Close-up
Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6546
Added: 30 December 2011
Filename: P1030593...
Views: 94
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
|
|
October 1982
|
| | | |  | | | | |
14: Front left view
Taken: 26 October 1982
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6728
Added: 12 February 2012
Filename: Scan_AMX...
Views: 156
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
|
| | | | | |
|
|