Tank Collection

German Panzer tank, 1944
A German Panzer tank, pictured during the Ardennes counter-offensive which became known as the Battle of the Bulge. Date: December 1944

Royal Scots Dragoon Guards & Gulf War Tank
A charge by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiners & Greys) and a Commanding Officers Tank of the same regiment in action during the First Gulf War in Iraq. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank patrolling outside Basra, Iraq
Soldiers of 1 A Squadron, Queens Royal Lancers (QRL) patrolling outside Basra, Iraq onboard a Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank during Operation Telic 4

Wwi Recruitment Poster
First World War recruitment poster featuring a private and an officer and pictures of various divisions - including the Royal Flying Corps, Tank corps, artillery & cavalry

Churchill AVRE Tank in France; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) tank moving up to the front, France, 1944

Challenger 2 Tank
A Challenger 2 tank on Castlemartin Ranges in Pembrokeshire, Wales

Tank in Battle of Menin Road, Ypres, Belgium, WW1
A British tank at the Battle of Menin Road, Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War. Some of the crew have come out for a breath of fresh air while waiting for the order to advance. Date: 1917

Battle of Arras 1917
Scene on the newly captured Fampoux Road with a ditched tank and soldiers at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Soviet Heavy Tank in Berlin; Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing a Soviet heavy tank moving through Berlin, with the Brandenburg Gate in the background, May 1945

Pannier tank, no. 7766, c. 1930s
A rather unfortunate scene here as pannier tank, number 7766, is stuck in the snow in an unknown location. This 0-6-0 locomotive was built in 1931

The Golden Temple, Amritsar, 1913
In the water of immortality: the heart of the Sikh religion

British tank on Western Front, WW1
A British tank, with the name " Barbarian II" painted on its side, in the snow on the Western Front during the First World War. Two German soldiers stand alongside it. Date: 28 December 1917

The British Second Army in Valkenswaard, Holland; Second Wor
Photograph showing advance units of the British Second Army in the Dutch village of Valkenswaard, September 1944. This was the first settlement in Holland to be liberated

Cat - looks at Goldfish in bowl
LA-6089 Cat - looks at Goldfish in bowl Jean-Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

India, Punjab, Amritsar, the Golden Temple - the holiest shrine of Sikhism just before dawn

Battle of the Bulge
American soldiers on a German Tiger II (Royal Tiger) tank which had been knocked out by American Air Force fighter-bombers during the Battle of the Bulge

Tank Battle on the Somme British MkIV & German A7V tanks in
Tank Battle on the Somme. British MkIV & German A7V tanks in action. Date: circa 1918

Marines roll down a dirt road on their M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank during a day of training at Exercise Africa Lion 2012

Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu located in Thiruvananthapuram, India. The shrine is run by a trust headed by the royal family of Travancore. Date: 1924

Tank Battle in Villers Bocage, France 1944
Illustration showing a battle between German Tiger tanks and British tanks and infantry in the village of Villers Bocage, Normandy, June 1944

British Mark IV tank with Canadian soldiers, WW1
A British Mark IV tank on a training exercise, with a large number of Canadian soldiers sitting on top of it, on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: February 1918

Walton Hospital, Liverpool
Walton Hospital, Rice Lane, Walton on the Hill, Liverpool. The central clock tower concealed a large water storage tank

British tank WWII
British Matilda tank in France during World War II

Tank Corps Recruitment
Wanted Smart Men for the Tank Corps - Let Professor Tank teach you a Trade Recruitment drive for the newly created tank Corps toward the end of WW1

No 5537 Prairie Tank Locomotive
2-6-2 55XX class locomotive. Built 1928

WW2 Valentines Card, Cupid's Tank
A WW2 Valentines greetings card, the illustration shows Cupid painting a British infantry tank with my Valentine. There's still no weapon in the world as strong as Cupid's bow

GLC-LFB - Foam Tender at East Ham
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

British tanks in Oosthoek Wood, Belgium, WW1
Two British tanks passing through Oosthoek Wood, near Elverdinghe, Belgium, on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 11 September 1917

British Mark IV tank with Tadpole Tail, WW1
British Mark IV tank with Tadpole Tail, introduced in 1917 and used during the latter part of the First World War

British soldiers with tank in trench, Ribecourt, France, WW1
Men of the 1st Leicester Regiment, 6th Division, in and around a captured German second line trench, one mile west of Ribecourt, northern France, during the Battle of Cambrai, First World War

Releasing carrier pigeon from tank, France, WW1
A human hand releasing a carrier pigeon through the porthole of a tank, near Albert, Somme, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 9 August 1918

Oil tanker loading at an oil terminal in Nakhodka, Russia

Central heating for cars / W H Robinson
The Autofooetjoye central heating device, consisting of a small zinc water tank glued to the back of the car

Battle of Cambrai 1917
Tank trains standing at Plateau Station awaiting despatch to detraining railheads at the Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front in France during World War I in November 1917

Captain Charles Upham
Portrait of double VC winner, Captain Charles Upham (). Born in New Zealand, Upham was a sheep farmer who distinguished himself during World War Two on two occasions

German Armoured Vehicles; Second World War, 1944
Illustration showing a selection of German armoured vehicles used during the Battle for Normandy in 1944

British Infantry and Tanks, Reichswald; World War Two, 1945
Photograph showing British infantry riding on Sherman tanks towards the Reichswald area, Germany, February 1945. On the left of the image anti-tank guns and their crews can be seen

American Troops landing on D-Day; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing American troops storming one of the Normandy beaches on D-Day, 6 June 1944

D-Day beach, Arromanches, Normandie (Normandy), France, Europe

Tank commemorating D-Day rehearsals, Slapton Sands, Slapton Ley, South Hams, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Europe

COAL TRAIN
Coal train hauled by a 4-4-2 tank locomotive at the harbourside

No 4573 Prairie Tank Locomotive at Chipping Norton Station, 1960
A view of Chipping Norton station in Oxfordshire, taken in 1960, showing the station buildings and the 2-6-2 45XX class locomotive, built 1924. The station opened in 1855 and closed in December 1962

WW2 poster, Back Them Up! Showing a British tank attack in the Western Desert. Date: 1940s

Locomotive no 538 0-6-0 tank engine

Turn out more Scrap Metal - Turn out More Tanks poster
World War II poster encouraging civilians on the home front to donate more scrap metal which can be turned into tanks to help the war effort

German Tanks Advance
A German tank column, accompanied by infantry, advances into Russia

Wwi / British Tank / Cambrai
At Cambrai, British tanks smash through the Hindenburg Line, a success that the limited mobile reserves were unable to exploit

WW1 / 1917 / BRITISH TANK
A British tank in action in France

British machine gun carriers passing through French village
British Bren Machine-Gun Carriers passing through a French village on the way to a rendezvous in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939

Tank in action. Reproduced from the original painting by John Hassall for William Foster & Co. Ltd. Engineers, Lincoln, England. John Hassall, Ri, Rwa (1868-1948)

Exercise MedMan in BATUS, Canada. A Challenger Tank is shown returning to base
A Challenger Main Battle Tank, of 1 Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (1RRF), is shown returning to base after completing a firing mission as part of Exercise MedMan

India, Punjab, Amritsar, a sikh pilgrim carrying a barcha spear at the Golden Temple - the holiest shrine of Sikhism

2-8-2 tank locomotive No. 7200, 27th July 1934
7200 Class, built 1934. Rebuilt from 2-8-0T No. 5275

0-6-4 crane tank locomotive, No 18, Steropes
Built 1901, withdrawn 1936

No 5527 Prairie Tank Locomotive
2-6-2 45xx class locomotive. Built 1928

GWR Pannier Tank No. 1366, outside Swindon Works, 1934
This 0-6-0 Pannier Tank was built at Swindon Works in 1934. It was part of the 1366 class of pannier tank locomotives. This particular locomotive was withdrawn in 1961

Matilda II tanks under construction at Swindon Work in 1941
In September 1941, three Matilda II tanks were photographed leaving AE shop on Rectank wagons. The tanks are incomplete and are presumably ready to be transported elsewhere for final assembly

Kirk and Saraski music hall aquatic acrobats. Sisters known as ?the aquatic marvels?. Performed dives, acrobatics and endurance feats in a tank of heated water

Poster, Monaco Aquarium. Date: 20th century

German Tiger tank by G. H. Davis
The fangs of the Tiger revealed: another German super-weapon whose invincibility has been disproved. Details of the German Mark VI tank, a 56-ton monster whose 88mm gun fires a three foot long shell

Tank abandoned in a field, end of WWI
A tank abandoned in a field during the First World War, with a notice attached to it written in French saying, among other things, that it is forbidden to go inside. circa 1921

A tank transporter hauling a Challenger 2 main battle tank to Wales for an exercise. Challenger 2 is an advanced main battle tank in service with the British Army and with the Royal Army of Oman

0-6-4 crane tank locomotive, No 17, Cyclops
Built 1901, withdrawn 1936

Sharon and Moshe Dayan On West Bank of Suez
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (L) stands with Major General Ariel Sharon on west bank of Suez Canal, October 18th, the second day of Israel's push across the canal into Egypt

Tank of Allied armies in front of Cologne Cathedral, Germany
Tank of the Allied armies in front of Cologne Cathedral, Germany, towards the end of world War II

The Diving Belles music hall divers and aquatic acrobats
The Diving Belles led by Daphne ?appearing in an elaborate sea cave scena Mermaids in Shells with clever and original tricks and fancy diving?

Challenger II Tank on Exercise Med Man
Exercise Med Man, Batus training area, Canada. 2 RTR with Challenger 2

Hang Dau Water Tank in Hanoi, Vietnam

2-4-2 Tank Engine Suspended by Cranes, Rochdale, Lancashire, England. Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Date: 1900s

Army tanks in battle with planes overhead, WW2
Army tanks in battle with planes overhead. Date: 1940

British six-pounder gun by G. H. Davis
The British six-pounder gun: explanatory drawings. It was an efficient field and anti-tank gun of high velocity, used for example against Rommels German army in the desert, Second World War

Scene at a petrol station, with an attendant filling up a car

2-8-2 tank locomotive No. 7200 at Newton Abbott
7200 Class, built 1934. Rebuilt from 2-8-0T No. 5275

14 ton 3000 Gallon Drinking Water Tank, No. 101
Built in 1948 to diagram DD6

The USS Terrebonne Parish (LST-1156) tank landing ship docking at Windmill Beach
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 1962. The USS Terrebonne Parish (LST-1156) tank landing ship docking at Windmill Beach, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2 November 1962

Fighting fires at Thames Haven oil tanks, WW2
Fighting fires at Thames Haven oil tanks during the Second World War

INDIA: GOLDEN TEMPLE, 1858. View of the sacred tank and marble causeway leading to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, India. Line engraving, English, 1858

Advertisement for various types of steam engine
Advertisement for Robey & Co of Lincoln (Globe Works), London, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Paris, manufacturers of various types of steam engine. circa 1883

Presentation of a tank in South Street, Worthing, c.1919. People crowd around a military tank on which several men in military uniform are standing

Officer of Tank Corps with dog and motorbike, France, WW1
An officer of the Tank Corps on a Douglas motorbike with a spaniel dog, at Neulette, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 3 May 1918

Recruitment poster, join the Regular Army

Hot water cylinder with jacket
Domestic hot water cylinder covered with an insulating jacket

WWII: TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, 1945. Edward Gleed and two other Tuskegee Airmen adjust an external 75 gallon drop tank on the wing of a P-5/D fighter plane Creamers Dream, at Ramitelli Airfield, Italy

WORLD WAR II: BOUGAINVILLE. American soldiers advancing behind a tank on the Japanese-held island of Bougainville, October 1943

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EDITORS COMMENTS

Unyielding and unstoppable, tanks have played a pivotal role in shaping history. From the Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank patrolling outside Basra, Iraq to the German Panzer tank of 1944, these armored giants have left an indelible mark on warfare. The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards & Gulf War Tank stand as a testament to their power and presence in modern conflicts. But they are not just instruments of war; they also hold historical significance. Take the Pannier tank, no. 7766 from the 1930s or the Churchill AVRE Tank in France during World War II - each representing a different era and purpose. In India's Amritsar lies the Golden Temple, its serene beauty contrasting with images of tanks surrounding it before significant events like WW1 or even back in 1913. These juxtapositions remind us that even sacred places can be touched by conflict. During times of war, propaganda posters like 'Back Them Up' rallied support for those who fought alongside tanks on battlefields such as Menin Road in Ypres, Belgium during WW1. British Mark IV tanks stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Canadian soldiers, showcasing international cooperation amidst chaos. Beyond Europe's borders lie scenes like The British Second Army in Valkenswaard, Holland during World War II - proof that tanks transcended continents to fight for freedom wherever needed. Whether it is the raw power emanating from a Challenger 2 Tank or witnessing history unfold through vintage photographs capturing moments like German Panzer Tanks advancing through Germany or Indian temples surrounded by armored vehicles – one thing remains clear: Tanks symbolize strength and resilience throughout time.