Cambridgeshire man parks World War I tank on his drive


A World War I devotee has stopped a reproduction Great War tank on the drive of his Cambridgeshire home.



WNO-Tony Cooke, from Cottenham, said the Mark IV "trench buster" is one of just two working reproductions in Europe.

The 21ft (6.4m)-long tank was fabricated for a Kenneth Branagh film and purchased for £30,000 by a group headed by Dr Cooke.

They would like to make the tank the centerpiece of a £2m National Center for the Great War in Dry Drayton, if arranging authorization is conceded.

An application to fabricate the middle at Hacker's Fruit Farm has been submitted to South Cambridgeshire District Council.

The middle would incorporate a World War I preparing camp and remade Allied and German trenches, differentiated by no man's territory.

Dr Cooke said: "The Great War appears to have been ignored, particularly in training, and we need to by one means or another get the cutting edge to comprehend the presents these fighters made."

It is trusted the imitation will discover another home in close-by Dry Drayton

'Trench buster'

The application is interested openly discussion and if passed the arrangement is to open the inside in time for one year from now's centennial of World War I.

Meanwhile, the tank stays on Dr Cooke's drive.

Its past holder, Mike Bradley, purchased the tank from the set of Kenneth Branagh's film of The Magic Flute.

Dr Cooke said he has so far spent an alternate £5,000 to remake the tank's outside to make it a "loyal generation" of the first "trench buster", complete with copy weapons.

It is, be that as it may, 5ft (1.5m) shorter than the first and 22 tons lighter, on the grounds that its metal casing is clad with wood rather than protective layer plate.

Dr Cooke said: "They were intended to move out of shell holes, cross trenches and demolish altered emplacements, automatic weapons or field big guns - they were really progressive in that time."

The other working copy Mark IV tank was constructed for chief Stephen Spielberg's film Warhorse.

It is currently at the Tank Museum at Bovington, Dors

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