Initial Tiger 1 tool box.

[John Glover]

Hi fellow tankers. Doing some research for my initial Tiger 1 build. I am aware that initial Tigers had a jack block installed on the back of the tank on the left hand side .If you have a look at the photos of tiger 100 on display in Gorky park by the Soviets you can see the four L shaped corner brackets and latch that held this on. These are the same corner brackets and layout to hold the jack block when it was moved to the front of the tank after the introduction of the Feiful filters on the back. My question is Eric from East coast armor has built a beautiful model of Tiger 100 on which he has made two video's. Beside the jack block on the back he has installed a tool box which is mounted vertically not horizontally like we see on the EARLY production tigers. Has any one got a photo of a initial with tool box. I am sure I read some where that tool boxes were not introduced right at the beginning. Anyone can shed some light on the subject. For reference if interested you can look at Tiger 100[production number 250009]Tiger 111[production number 250002] and Tiger 121 [ production number 250004] These were all part of the first nine Tigers that were produced and sent to the Russian front. These are all initial Tigers John.

[Jofaur86]

http://www.alanhamby.com/early.shtml

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can this be help? below the filter, we see the support of a tool box?

[Jofaur86]

Find this on book "Tiger I in action" sorry for the quality

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[Jofaur86]

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[John Glover]

Thanks Jofaur, but this is a photo of a lot later tank. Mounting brackets for side guards ,rear mud flaps, S mine launchers and 2nd version feifuls to name a few things and the tool box mounting bracket in the standardized location .Thanks anyway. John.