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TANKFEST, Universal Carrier, (1/2)

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The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, on Friday 23rd June 2023.
 
About the photograph.

This is a light armoured tracked vehicle known as the Universal Carrier, and also called the Bren Gun Carrier.

While its official name is Universal Carrier, the reason for calling it Bren Gun Carrier, and sometimes for short, Bren Carrier, is because part of its main role was to act as transporting personnel and equipment, mostly support weapons, including the Bren light machine gun.

They were designed during the 1930s, had a 3.9 litre V8 petrol engine, offering a maximum speed of 30 mph, with a fuel capacity of 91 litres, offering a possible range of up to 150 miles. They were operated by a crew of 3, but could carry another passenger.

They entered services in 1936, and was used mainly in the Second World War. 
 
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.

The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.

The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.

However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.

By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.

The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.

TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground known as Kuwait Arena.

For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
 
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Taken in: UK / England / Purbeck District / Bovington Camp (show map)

Taken on: June 23, 2023

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