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Tank Museum 100

The world’s largest armoured warfare museum is celebrating 100 years of tank conservation with a packed summer festival

Located at Bovington Camp in Dorset, The Tank Museum contains the largest collection of tanks and third-largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world. Vehicles among its collection include a British Mark I, the oldest surviving combat tank from the First World War, and Tiger 131 which is the only working example of a German Second World War Tiger I tank.

This year marks the centenary of the museum’s establishment. In 1923

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