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Side skirts
Four removable pieces of skirting were fixed to each side of the later Tigers, to prevent mud being thrown up by the wide tracks.
This is the underside of a side skirt from the Tiger at Bovington Museum, before restoration. The German red primer can be seen where the mounting blocks attached to the skirt. I don't know if the rest of the paint is original.
This is the profile of the standard skirt. The slanting face is at 60 degrees to the vertical [1] . There is a full end piece, shown here, at both ends of the skirt array.
The width of the skirt is 280mm [1] ; adding the thickness of the sheet metal and the vehicle's nominal hull width, gives exactly the figure of 3705mm that is quoted by Spielberger [2, see page 208] .
There were stiffeners within the skirt array; one at the middle of each skirt piece, and one at each internal end. This is a stiffener.
Therefore, at each joint within the skirt array there were two stiffeners.
Sources
[1] Survey of vehicle 250122, Bovington, by David Byrden
[2] Der Panzerkampfwagen VI und seine abarten, Walter J. Spielberger, Motor Buch Verlag
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