A WW2 German Tiger tank ...

[dogtag]

The thing you have ti remember is the German tanks were maintained by well trained tank guys. The guys that are working on the Tiger today don't have hundreds of hours of training plus hundreds of hours fixing their broken Tigers. They are faced with hours of diagnosing the problem. Merely finding (or manufacturing ) replacement parts which was and still is very time consuming. Then there is the fact that the Tiger's engine was very good but the transmission was and probably still why it takes 200 hours to keep the thing running

They've had 76 Years to figure it out for Christ's sake.

[JB White]

How many of those 76 years did it spend in MoD possession, and then static display? Latter day museum staffers may know a little something about it but they aren't German trained. I doubt they found an old owners manual..or a Chilton's in the glove box

[Mark in Ottawa]

I saw that tank plus a few others that were on display but not in working order when we visited the Bovington Tank Museum last september. I even got a few photos of my wife standing beside one of them.

If you get a chance to go there, it's well worth the visit. It's located in south west England. See http://www.tankmuseum.org/home