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Unique ID:
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73
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May 2008
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Last Edited:
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10 May 2010
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Type (ID):
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Tiger (170)
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Model (ID):
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Early Production Model (300)
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Location Category (ID):
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Wheatcroft Collection (3510)
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Location (ID):
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Wheatcroft Collection (3510)
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Location History:
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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)
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Text in original Preserved German Tanks publication:
This is a very early production vehicle (chassis number 250012), with a pistol port on the right side of the turret, and it is not fitted with a turret stowage box. It was the platoon sergeant’s tank of 1st Troop of Number 1 Company, sPzAbt 501. This Battalion received its first Tigers on 30 August 1942 and was promised to Rommel as reinforcements for his North Africa campaign. On 10 November it was ordered to Tunisia by Hitler. The Battalion’s tanks, including this one carrying the turret number “112”, were moved by rail from Fallingbostel were they had been used for training. They were transported to Reggio, Calabria, in Italy and then shipped on Siebel ferries to Bizerta in Tunisia. This one was captured in running order during 1943. It carried the turret number “712” when captured because the Company had come under command of 7 Panzer Regiment and was its 7th company. It was taken to the USA for testing and evaluation in 1943. The left side of its turret was cut open and then patched up.
It was on display in the Ordnance Museum at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, for many years. In 1989 it was returned to Germany on long term loan in exchange for it being restored during that time. It went originally to the Auto und Technik Museum at Sinsheim, but has since been moved to Koblenz. The left sides of its turret and hull are now open to view. Two other vehicles were returned at the same time, these were the Munster Panzermuseum PzKpfw II tank and the Auto und Technik Marder II tank destroyer (see Preserved German Tanks Volume 1). It will remain in Germany indefinitely.
Text in Preserved German Tanks Update:
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.
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1: Right view
Taken: 2000 (Estimated)
Contributor: J. Lewis
Photo ID: 3199
Added: 10 May 2010
Filename: 31708660...
Views: 879
Select/Has Priority: 22/0
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July 1983
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2: The Koblenz Tiger while at APG
Taken: 9 July 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 167
Added: 3 July 2008
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 695
Select/Has Priority: 1/0
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3: Right view (at APG)
Taken: 9 July 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 851
Added: 10 December 2008
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 482
Select/Has Priority: 22/0
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4: Left view (at APG)
Taken: 9 July 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 852
Added: 10 December 2008
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 1097
Select/Has Priority: 22/0
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5: Front right view (at APG)
Taken: 9 July 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 853
Added: 10 December 2008
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 548
Select/Has Priority: 22/0
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6: Front left view (at APG)
Taken: 9 July 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 854
Added: 10 December 2008
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 1085
Select/Has Priority: 22/0
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7: Front view (at APG)
Taken: 9 July 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 855
Added: 10 December 2008
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 5252
Select/Has Priority: 22/0
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September 1978
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8: Rear left view
Taken: September 1978
Contributor: J. Lewis
Photo ID: 3198
Added: 10 May 2010
Filename: Scan_Tig...
Views: 787
Select/Has Priority: 22/0
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1943
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9: “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: 6090
Select/Has Priority: 22/0
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