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Tank Overhaul is a Canadian documentary television program broadcast on the Military Channel (now American Heroes Channel) starting in 2007.Episodes are filmed at the Isle of Wight Military Museum as well as other organizations specializing in military history vehicle restoration and preservation.
HMS Manatee, Landing craft, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight; HMS Marlborough, Electrical training school, Eastbourne [29] HMS Mastodon, Landing craft, Exbury House, Hampshire; HMS Mauritius, Mauritius; HMS Martelo, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Lowestoft, (1 October 1945 – April 1946) HMS Medina, Landing craft and Fleet Air Arm, Puckpool, Ryde, Isle of ...
One was established at Sandown on the Isle of Wight, and another at Dungeness on the Kent coast. Construction was carried out at night and in secret, and equipment was carried in under tarpaulins. The pumping stations and storage tanks were camouflaged to look like villas, seaside cottages, old forts, amusement parks and other innocuous features.
In 1980, it was brought for a price of £2 by a private owner and was given to the Isle of Wight Council who cosmetically restored it. It went to the Cothy Bottom Heritage Centre, Newport Quay and the Isle of Wight Bus Museum before being put away out of the public view. In 2018, ownership was transferred to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway (IOWSR).
On the Isle of Wight neolithic occupation is attested to by flint tool finds, pottery and monuments. The Isle of Wight's neolithic communities were agriculturalists, farming livestock and crops. The Isle of Wight's most recognisable neolithic site is the Longstone at Mottistone, the remains of an early Neolithic long barrow. Initially ...
The LMS had various elderly tank engines and the operating department required a new small class 2 locomotive to replace them. Noting that the Great Western Railway 4500 and 4575 Classes of 2-6-2T ('Prairie') had been successful, George Ivatt designed the new engine type incorporating self-emptying ashpans and rocking grates which were labour-saving devices.
With further reductions in the Territorial Army in 1967 the unit became B Company (Duke of Connaught's 6th Royal Hampshire RA) The Hants and Isle of Wight Territorials. In 1971 on the formation of the Wessex Regiment, ‘A’ Company of the new regiment was designated Duke of Connaught's Own.
In 2011, 110 was cosmetically restored and painted in a fictitious British Railways black livery and numbered 32110 before being moved to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. It is undergoing an assessment for a major overhaul and has been given the identity W2 Yarmouth , the name worn by one of the E1s that operated on the original line in 1932.