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I found this photo of a tank at Ulverston. It was uploaded by an anonymous  person to a website about Barrow.
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It looks like a presentation tank arriving in 1919 but differs from most such photos in that it has no large home service number (presentation tanks coming from Bovingdon had a number in the 200 series and has the white red white stripes used in France.

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Not all presentation tanks carried Home Forces numbers in the 200 series. If they had been shipped back from France and declared surplus they would carry the red/white/red stripes, just like this one, the one in Rugby and the one in Barnsley. Only if they were machines that had been used in the UK, like the one in Merthyr Tydfil, would they have Home Forces numbers.

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That why I said "differs from most". The majority of photos I've found of presentation tanks have the large numbers

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