Over 4500 people went to The Tank Museum in Bovington to see the world’s only running Tiger I tank in action.
Tiger 131 runs only twice a year, on Tiger Day in April and September, and always attracts huge crowds when it does.
Tiger Day 11 was another sell-out, with 4500 people flooding in to The Tank Museum to see the fearsome machine.
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Museum Curator David Willey said, “A significant amount of work goes into keeping the Tiger running and it is extremely fragile and liable to faults.
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“During the war it took 10 hours of maintenance for every hour the Tiger ran – now it takes the museum staff and engineers an astonishing 200 hours.”
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The Tiger tank was a formidable weapon introduced by the Nazis and the capture of 131 allowed the allies to understand exactly what had been unleashed.
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The highlight of the day was a 45 minute display which saw Tiger 131 take to the arena alongside its Axis and Allied contemporaries, including the Sherman tank which played ‘Fury’ in the Brad Pitt, Hollywood blockbuster.