Tiger 241 then 841

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Description

This Tiger of the 501st had a name painted on the front upper plate, and a small flat Eiffel Tower attached to the spare track bracket there, presumably a souvenir of the 2nd company's time in France. We assume that it was renumbered from 241 to 841 before Operation Ochsenkopf, and it should have had another number thereafter but we don't know that number. The British eventually found the hull in a workshop, stripped of internal parts. As described in 'Combat Tactics' 7.3, they used it for gunnery tests in July 1943. The resulting photographs show unusual cracking on the upper left side; this matches a German report (copied in the same book) of a Tiger being hit by artillery. Thus we have the chassis number of the Tiger.

Chassis number

250028

Details

Hub of the sprocket wheels Central dome is big
Alignment of bolts on the sprockets Bolts aligned with arms
Tow cable direction 32mm cable with the ends to the front
Tool holders on glacis plate Custom tools in a nonstandard layout
Toolbox at rear left Supported perpendicular to the wall
Mudguard type Narrow mudguards
Thick area on mantlet Flat with 2 small holes
Headlight arrangement Two headlights on the hull roof
Turret bin type UNKNOWN

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