ORGANISERS of the Yorkshire Wartime Experience took a special delivery today - a rare military tank.
The vehicle, one of the first Centurion tanks dating back to 1944-1946, was transported on a low loader from an air museum in Doncaster to Hunsworth, near Cleckheaton, where it will be on display during the Yorkshire Wartime Experience in the summer.
Owner, Phil Turner from Sheffield, bought the tank in 2005 after it came out of service. He said it was a gun tank originally involved in the Korean conflict and was converted into a beach armoured recovery vehicle.
It was also used on Naval landing ships and was used in the Falklands War on HMS Intrepid and latterly on HMS Fearless before coming out of service.
Following refurbishment, it was on display at the air museum but is now on loan to the Yorkshire Wartime Experience where it will no doubt be a huge attraction to the many visitors who attend this popular annual show in Hunsworth village.
Show organiser, Stuart Wright, said: "For us, as a show, it is an exceptionally rare tank and unusual for a tank to have a combat history you know about. It served in the Falklands and the Gulf War and it was built in Leeds so it is like the tank coming home again."
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