On a not so warm Sunday morning the club left on a day trip to the RAAC Memorial and Army Tank Museum. Adrian "with thanks" organized the transport and safely got us there at around 11.00 pm. With Gary Zimmer and Co meeting us.

Gary took us on a tour for just over an hour that was jam packed full of information on the various displays that the museum had to offer . The day turned out to be glorious with the temperature in the mid 20’s. A few bonuses were to be had including around 4 ASLAV-25 coming back from maneuvers. Along with some bargains from the museums own model shop.

Tankbloke "AKA Ken" was in his element! With sausage in hand "he bolted", when a soldier fired up a Leopard Tank for a photo shoot with the "Jaguar Car Club" who inturn left before the action started , bad luck for them great luck for us however.....

Below you can view some of the short movies taken on the day. Either click and save, or wait for them to play using Quicktime !!! However please be patient as some of them are quite large at over 20mb.

Gary talks about the Ford Lynx Scout Car 10.40 mb

Gary explains variations between the Grant & Lee Tanks 18.00 mb

LAV25's back from maneuvers ( Movie 1 ) 2.31 mb

LAV25's back from maneuvers ( Movie 2 ) 6.41 mb

The leopard gets warmed up and undressed 16.50 mb

Gary is asked to ground guide a Leopard Tank 7.82 mb

Gary guides the Leopard Tank 19.70 mb

Leopard Tank Turret turn and shutdown 13.80 mb