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1.  Bill says:
9 Feb 2011 06:42:08 PM

TAKE A FREE RIDE:

The Tiger had two types of tracks 520mm
narrow and 720mm battle/combat wider tracks.
If you look close at the photograph, you can
see the outer roadwheels have been removed from each side, for transport.
This was done to fit the flat cars, and meet
clearance requirements. Later special cars were built to transport the Tigers.

ONCE A TIGER ALWAYS A TIGER:

The Tiger in the photo, isn't a Battle tank, but the one behind is, anyway its called a
Recovery Vehicle or Bergepanzer-Tiger it mounted a ten ton lifting crane and carried
other support equippment, the 88mm gun was removed and the turret traversed to the rear and fixed.
The overall cost of fielding a Tiger, with
its support equipment, maintenance and spare parts set the Fatherland back a lot of Reichmarks,RM I'll say maybe a total 800,000
but I'm just guessing here.

The Tank to the right of the Bergepanzer is a Panther it cost the Fatherland 117,100 RMs
and 6,000 were built, the Tiger went for 250,000RMs and 1,347 were built.

2.  Bill says:
22 Dec 2014 02:56:59 PM

OOPS!

In any comment here at ww2db, it has always been my intention to share the right information be it
people events or weapons. Studying the above file photo again, the vehicle described by me, isn't a Bergetiger after all, but looks like a SdKfz 9 FAMO the largest of the German halftracks.
These vehicles were used as a Tiger recovery vehicle, fitted with a crane it took two or three halftracks to tow a Tiger. Did you know it cost the Fatherland between 300,000 to 800,000 Reich Marks to build one Tiger. What does FAMO stand for. Fahrzeugwerke und Motorwerke AG. Thought I'd clear this up.

My apologies to the editor/ww2db for this one should have studied the photo in more detail to make sure, I enlarged the photo to 300% if anyone has more info let me know...

Bill