The tank - one of the heaviest produced in the UK - has been transported from Dorset
The tank - one of the heaviest produced in the UK - was transported from Dorset earlier this weekA military museum has taken delivery of a 64-tonne British tank as part of a restoration project.
The Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum at Thoresby Park, near OIlerton in Nottinghamshire, is the new temporary home of the FV 214 Conqueror.A four-hour operation saw it manoeuvred into place.Volunteers at the museum will spend the next few months restoring the tank - which saw service between 1955 and 1966.
It was transported to the attraction from the Bovington Tank Museum on Tuesday before being sited on a specially created concrete plinth.Image caption,Keith Girling, Nottinghamshire County Council's armed forces champion, who served in the Grenadier Guards for 18 years, said: "Thoresby has a long association with the British tank, and it only seems fitting that a great venue...will be home to such a historic and significant exhibit.
"I'm sure the presence of the FV 214 Conqueror will no doubt prove to be a huge attraction to people coming to our county.""I look forward to seeing the results of their hard work," he said.Mr Holtby said it was the first time a tank had been on the site for about 80 yearsAbout 180 of the tanks were built in total, which were used in the then West Germany with the British Army of the Rhine.
"A lot of the restoration work will be cosmetic and if we get it looking something like what it did, then we'll be delighted."
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