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Unique ID: 2015 Added to Database: 2 January 2012 Last Edited: 5 June 2012 Type (ID): A22 Churchill (3870) Model (ID): Mark IV (3880) Location Category (ID): Isle of Wight Military History Museum (3100) Location (ID): Nigel Montgomery Collection (3108) Serial Number: 5365 (source: Museum Vehicle Record). Registration: 08 ZV 84, previously T31579. Name: Other Identification: Collection Reference: E1965.53, Entry 1965.1013 (Bovington). Links: ChurchillTank.com Restoration – Hull Tank Museum News Bovington Vehicle Record YouTube References: Associated Tanks: Location History: (see map) 1: Vauxhall Motors Limited, Luton, Bedfordshire, East England, Britain (Design parent and primary manufacturer) 2: The Tank Museum - Reserve Collection, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (As Churchill ARK Armoured Ramp Carrier until ca2004) 3: Isle of Wight Military History Museum, Cowes, Isle of Wight, South East England, Britain (Current location) 4: The Tank Museum - Tankfest Arena, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Running at Tankfest 2011) 5: Isle of Wight Military History Museum, Cowes, Isle of Wight, South East England, Britain (Current location) 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 Churchill was originally a Link Ark vehicle and was put on the Bovington museum books in 1965. Marked ‘GONE’ in museum record on 15 June 2004 and ‘Not on premises (VB 20.5.2004)’. (Source: Bovington Vehicle Record). It was restored as a Mark IV gun tank at the Isle of Wight Museum. It took part in Tankfest 2011 at Bovington. While undergoing restoration in 2009 it had an information board that read: CHURCHILL RESTORATION This is the chassis of what was once a “Churchill Ark” this was an experimental Vehicle, and an early example of this type of chassis and is a square door MK2 built around 1942. The Ark which can be seen in the photograph has been removed and all its supporting framework and brackets cut off the chassis. It has had all its internal equipment removed this includes such items as the Engine Transmission and controls wiring and all electrical and hydraulic equipment. Since in its form as an Ark it did not have a gun turret fitted, we now have a correct turret which we have restored and is now ready to be fitted to the hull on its completion. The Track have been removed and are now being used as a track to enable the chassis to be moved in and out of the workshop. The chassis as you see it has been sand blasted and painted in primer, and at present is undergoing the last few small jobs prior to being painted in its final green livery this work will be followed by the fitting out of all the pipe work wiring etc. Then starts the massive job of overhauling all the machinery ready to be reinstalled back in the chassis. This vehicle will be finally fitted with its turret and the main gun which has been restored. Then after a period of static testing will come running trials. It is believed that there are only two working examples in existence at present, and this vehicle will be the third and the only fully restored example, as the other two tanks have not had a complete restoration carried out on them.

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June 2011 1: Front right view Taken: 25 June 2011 Contributor: Peeteekayy Photo ID: 6801 Added: 26 February 2012 Filename: 58705920... Views: 504 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		2: Front left view Taken: 25 June 2011 Contributor: Peeteekayy Photo ID: 6802 Added: 26 February 2012 Filename: 58859147... Views: 572 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		3: Right view Taken: 25 June 2011 Contributor: Peeteekayy Photo ID: 6803 Added: 26 February 2012 Filename: 58853448... Views: 191 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
4: Close-up of mud chutes Taken: 25 June 2011 Contributor: Peeteekayy Photo ID: 6804 Added: 26 February 2012 Filename: 58853453... Views: 181 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
August 2010 5: Front right view Taken: 15 August 2010 Contributor: I. Maw Photo ID: 7835 Added: 5 June 2012 Filename: 97059917... Views: 166 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
August 2009 6: Upper front left view Taken: 5 August 2009 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7710 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040677... Views: 176 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		7: Front right view Taken: 5 August 2009 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7711 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040535... Views: 162 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		8: Front view Taken: 5 August 2009 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7712 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040526... Views: 152 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
9: Front left view Taken: 5 August 2009 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7713 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040525... Views: 185 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		10: Rear left view Taken: 5 August 2009 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7714 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040523... Views: 157 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		11: Rear left view Taken: 5 August 2009 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7715 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040455... Views: 113 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
12: Engine compartment Taken: 5 August 2009 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7716 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040524... Views: 146 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		13: Engine Taken: 5 August 2009 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7719 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040529... Views: 155 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		14: Display board Taken: 5 August 2009 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7720 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040531... Views: 153 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
15: Planned turret Taken: 5 August 2009 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7749 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040486... Views: 175 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		16: Spare turret Taken: 5 August 2009 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7820 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040480... Views: 165 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
June 2004 17: Photograph of IOWMHM photograph Taken: June 2004 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 7721 Added: 4 June 2012 Filename: P1040534... Views: 208 Select/Has Priority: 21/0

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