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00FB03

TANK BRIDGELAYER AVLB CHIEFTAIN MK2 (PROTOTYPE)

Possibly Surviving AVLB
Date in Service 01 Nov 1968
Contract NK
Colour Green Matt
Asset Code HA04222021
Last Known Location QM(T) Dept Armour Centre, Bovington
Last Merlin Record 13 Apr 2000

Notes

Chieftain AVLB Mk2 Prototype, entered service November 1968. One of three AVLB prototypes (00FB02, 00FB03, 00FB04). Merlin records service at QMT Bovington Armour Centre from 1979, with ABRO Bovington planned repair 1992, returning to QM(T) Dept Armour Centre April 2000 — last confirmed Merlin movement. No cast flag set. PDF vehicle register notes all three prototypes were used for driver training. Recorded as possible survivor pending physical confirmation at Bovington.

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Data source: Service history and last known location are sourced from the British Army Merlin Archive, the official vehicle inventory system covering records up to 2012 when the archive was declassified. Survival status has been assessed from the last recorded unit — vehicles may have changed hands, been restored, or been scrapped since then. If you have current information about this vehicle, please submit a correction.

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Service History

Movement records from the British Army Merlin Archive

31 Oct 1968
VEHICLE DEPOT LUDGERSHALL Receipt: 01 Nov 1968
01 Jan 1979
QMT BOVINGTON ARMOUR CENTRE Receipt: 20 Apr 1979
11 May 1992
ABRO BOVINGTON PLANNED REPAIR. Receipt: 13 May 1992
25 Nov 1992
QMT BOVINGTON ARMOUR CENTRE Receipt: 27 Nov 1992
24 Nov 1993
QM (T) DEPT ARMOUR CENTRE Receipt: 24 Nov 1993
08 Mar 1999
ABRO WARMINSTER PLANNED REPAIR. Receipt: 12 Mar 1999
13 Apr 2000
QM (T) DEPT ARMOUR CENTRE Receipt: 13 Apr 2000

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