3 Churchills need saving in Germany

[kevin powles]

Rick, Best Father's Day ever for you Rick!, heading off to Churchill graveyard!. Stuff dreams are made of mate, good luck!.

Kev.

[eddy8men]

hi fella's
I got back tuesday morning from the scrapyard in Germany and unfortunately I wasn't able to save anything not even spare parts, let alone complete tanks.
the deal got off to a good enough start with us getting to the yard at 11.30 meeting up with our contact Thomas and having a look at the tanks with a view to salvaging maybe 10 ton of spares. at around midday we left for lunch for an hour and when we came back the deal was off and the scrap guys had decided It was too much hassle and not enough profit. Thomas tried his best to cut a new deal or salvage something but they weren't interested and we had to leave. I have to say it was a bitter blow to have to walk away and i'm still angry but there was nothing I could do.

here's a few pics of the tanks, I will post more later. the firs two are a mk2 arv and the other three are a postwar bridgelayer

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Rick,

Very sorry to hear about this outcome! Sounds like "a dime on its side" (as we say in Dutch), it could have gone either way. At least you tried, thanks for sharing this story and the pictures. I guess not all WW2 tanks can be saved

Hanno

[eddy8men]

thanks hanno
I guess you can't win them all

[kevin powles]

Rick, You must be fuming mad, what a waste just for a quick buck, history lost for ever.

:-(

[Robert Bergeron]

Sorry to hear the outcome Rick. You did not work in vain. You have raised our collective awareness of the worth of preserving these hostorical military artefacts. Well done! Robert

[eddy8men]

thanks guys the sad thing is the spares from those churchills would have helped with the restoration of at least 4 others and it wasn't just churchills, there were conquerors and cents as well.