TIGER TANK
SIR J. GRIGG GIVES PARTICULARS FOUR INCH FRONT ARMOUR. GUN THROWING 20LB SHELL. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY, June 8. The Secretary for War, Sir J. Grigg, answering a question in the House of Commons, said the German Tiger tank weighs 55 to 60 tons. The front armour plates are four inches thick and the sides 3i inches thick. The gun carried by the tank had a calibre of 8.8 centimetres, weighed about a ton and a half and threw an armour-piercing shell weighing 20 pounds 12 ounces and also a high-explosive shell. The speed of the tank depended greatly on the surface of the ground.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1943, Page 4
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