Bovington Carrier

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Ron Pier

And the new lottery funded £2.5 million hall built to house the reserve collection. Not generally open to the public. We got a good look round and under wraps are lots of vehicles from Beverly being stored until the Army vehicles museum can find places to house them properly. Ron

I took some overseas friends to the museum after W&P and we were given a viewing of the new facility. The Curator said the vehicles were from the National Army Museum collection which has been in store at Stevenage, but moved whilst building work is going on up there.

[Ron Pier]

Yes Lynn remiss of me to miss out 'Carden' But the museum call it a carrier.
Yes Richard I also had a long chat with David Willy (try and stop him). and yes the vehicles came from Stevenage but lots of those were in store from Beverly. The National army museum had collected theirs after the roof had collapse! It seems they are preparing a facility at Chelsea, but the Tank museum are uncertain about the time scale and the room available. They are more than willing to house any armoured stuff and have agreed to hold the soft skin under wraps for a maximum of two years. Shame this stuff is not on display. From what I could see by peering through the poly sheets, there are some rare and interesting vehicles and nicely restored. Ron