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Amusing Hobby have put a complete Tiger (H) turret floor into this Tiger (P) kit. But this tank didn't have a turret floor.

Gearbox on turret floor

Here is an extract from an Amusing Hobby instruction sheet. Nothing in this clip should exist because the real Tiger (P) didn't have any of it.

We have very little information about what the tank did have. Without this rotating floor, it must have had a complete hull floor so that the loader could do his work. But there must have been some kind of electrical connector in the center, for turret power and communications. We simply don't know what that looked like.

There is a large hydraulic gearbox in this image (top middle). The Tiger (P) didn't have one of those. Instead it used an electric motor to rotate the turret. We don't know what that motor looked like, and we don't know how or where it was built into the turret. Or perhaps it was in the hull. We have nothing but a document with the words "Elektrischer Turmantrieb" [1, see page 30] .

[1] Der Panzerkampfwagen VI und seine abarten, Walter J. Spielberger, Motor Buch Verlag

 
 

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