The tank arrived this evening , We towed it off the truck but have yet to be able to turn it, so it looks like I have a tank blocking my drive until my mate can find an engine

Apparently its a 1943 model, recently it starred in 'flags of our fathers' in Iceland hence the newish paint job.

Is that the kind of tank the Germans called "Tommy cookers" becuse the engine was a radial Petrol engine.

yes it should have a radial airplane engine under the bonnet, a wright cyclone or something, do you have one in your garage?

chicken george wrote:

do you have one in your garage?

Unfortunately not,

I was working on a MOD firing range and they used one or two of these as targets. We thought they needed more practise because they were in pretty good shape considering... they had the engines still installed.

We nicked the fuel filler cap and my mate now uses it as an ashtray.