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Unlike cars, tanks need a lot of care and maintenance if they are to keep working.

This diagram was used to help German Panther crews identify points on their tank that needed attention. There are three separate jobs detailed here. Prüfen means ‘Check,’ Reinigen ‘Clean’ and Schmieren ‘Lubricate.’

Other pages in the booklet name each location and tell the crew how often the required procedure should be carried out.

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Go behind the scenes and behind the history with our Workshop team as we shine a spotlight on some of the engineering - the maintenance, preservation, restoration and conservation - that goes on in the Tank Museum Workshop.


We won’t just explain what we’re doing - but how we’re doing it, and why we’re doing it that way.


These are the machines that shaped our history. Now we’re going to tell the stories that lie beneath the engine decks.


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The T34 Rocket Launcher was a US-designed launch frame mounted above the turret of a Sherman tank, capable of delivering a payload of sixty 4.5in (115mm) unguided rockets in a short period of time.



The system traversed with the turret, and elevated with the main gun barrel. It was initially developed in 1943 as a way to give “bunker busting” firepower to tanks for the D-day invasion, but wasn't used as its weight made the tank too top heavy for easy transport in a landing craft. A small number were, however, used later in the war.



They were limited by their reload time and inaccuracy. The noise created by the rockets firing was often enough to drive targets off in terror on its own though. This sound as well as the clustered pipes of the launcher looking like an organ - leading to the weapon being nicknamed after the ‘Calliope’ steam organ.

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This is the seasonal outfit that “sleighs” – the 2025 Tank Museum Knitted Christmas Jumper is here!
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PLUS – there’s limited stock of previous year’s designs still available too.⁠

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In the early 1960s, Vickers-Armstrongs designed and marketed a series of Main Battle Tanks fitted with many of the systems of the 55 tonne Chieftain, but in a 37 tonne vehicle.

They sold over 2200 of the Mark 1 to India. This is the improved Mark 3, which was purchased by Kenya and Nigeria between 1977 and 1995, for a total of 212 tanks.

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Czech designed and built, the LT Vz. 35 tank was taken into German service when they occupied Czechoslovakia in March 1939. They called it the Panzerkampfwagen 35(t).

The Germans used the Panzer 35(t) in Poland, France and the early months of the invasion of the Soviet Union. By December 1941 its armour and firepower were clearly inadequate, and this, plus the shortage of parts and difficulties with the cold, led to its withdrawal.

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20 November 1917- The Battle of Cambrai begins.

British Brigadier General Hugh Elles manages to create a force of 476 tanks which he leads personally into battle across the trenches. This is the largest force of tanks assembled until this point, and the attack takes the Germans completely off guard.

The British and their tanks advance 10,000 yards, and this success is so significant that it is still commemorated by the Royal Tank Regiment to this day.

To learn more about Cambrai and the Mark IV tanks the British used, click here: https://youtu.be/sF9-oQHN6_c

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Throughout the Second World War, the German military relied heavily on captured enemy vehicles and equipment, the majority French and Czech. They also used a variety of Soviet equipment, including a small batch of captured T-34s.


Despite reliability issues and ergonomic shortcomings the T-34 was fast – capable of reaching 31mph – and decently armoured. It was a simple design that was easy to repair and replace, unlike most German tanks.


Like the Germans, the Finns also utilised captured Soviet equipment, watch our Tank Chat on the Finnish T-34 at the museum here: https://youtu.be/8dUAs40ymag

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