3 Churchills need saving in Germany

[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.

[eddy8men]

the pic with my hand shows the thickness of the armour on the conqueror turret. all that history gone

[maple_leaf_eh]

It hurts to look at those pictures.

[jdmcm]

That is practically criminal...

[Private_collector]

What a dreadful loss. I'm angry too.
Such a bloody minded approach to conducting business VS helping retain some significant pieces of history.

No doubt, those tenks will be unrecognisable when they return as Hyundais or whatever.

This sort of action SHOULD be outlawed. We heritage list buildings, why not some vehicles like these.

[eddy8men]

I had to stand there and watch while they gas axed them. still hurts and genuinely makes me a sad to think nothing was salvaged at all.
I had one last go at trying to save something yesterday but the door was definitely slammed shut in my face. so it's a done deal they are now gone for good.
there was a wartime square door bridgelayer which was particularly interesting because it hadn't been reworked with the cones over the armour bolts, it was also one of only two surviving examples. the twin ark was the only surviving example of the type and that is also gone.

[motto (RIP)]

Swords into plough shears, it has always been so but that makes it no less maddening.
I understand it's often the case these that days the scrappy has no room to manoeuvre having been locked into a contract for the complete destruction of the equipment and no on sale to a third party except for melting down.
I have friends that have been in the ammunition business for years who used to buy empty, reject or overrun casings and reject or overrun projectiles from a scrap dealer by the ton.
The guvmint has now become so paranoid they would rather bury it in a secure location. Probably alongside our F111s.

David