After a somewhat less than competent foray with the local, official and so called experts alongside a certain museum here, that left some three rather rare and now almost extinct Maybach V12's in piles of scrap on the test stand, a certain almost complete Jagdtiger, missing only one bogie set, "donated" its HL230 P30, in fact the wrong engine, to get the crowd-pleasing (so money pulling) Tiger 1 running (again).

In fact the subject Tiger 1 ran so poorly that this engine is now discretely and more safely placed for analysis and re-work with the actual private experts, which I cannot name, but their work on a certain privately owned and sweet-as-a-nut Jagdpanther gives testament to their knowledge and specialist mechanical acumen.

No huge trick here, just a genuine interest rather than "another job", plus some painstaking research in the archives and those surviving engineers who worked on them for real. These types of activities often seem to be alien to officialdom for some reason.

It is, IMHO, historical and mechanical vandalism to cannibalise a near running Jagdtiger in a panic move to appease the accountants both of a museum and our national lottery hand-out people.

But that's just me.

R.