I think starting this channel was a very smart move. I'm Australian and had no idea this museum existed until this channel appeared (granted, I'm on the other side of the country in Perth). Now I'm planning a trip to Cairns just to visit. You guys deserve mountains of government funding for helping to preserve the nation's military history and bringing foreign tanks down under.
Don't let the government pay for a private museum, as then the government can force them to do what they want. I firmly believe in the private business model, and since this is a private collection, I would not want the government to prop them up.
I beleve in the future this museum should be place in a trust for the community who are involed with it and not given to a greedy government or big business to sell it off peice by peice.
Yeah, I love the Cromwell. Learning about tanks from a modern viewpoint, it's the first British one you get to where you go "Yeah, that looks like a proper tank". Gorgeous piece of kit 😊
@@Mattamaza "failure of a tank" righto lol It was a valued workhorse in ww2 with a huge amount of service success. Please stop posting statements about topics you clearly don't have a mature or informed understanding of. Lets not pretend that it didn't play a duly recognised contribution to the success of the allies in ww2. Sherman was a well engineered and versatile tank, but that doesn't make every other tank bellow it a failure. Cromwell had excellent mobility, low silhouette and a good gun, often out matching most of its opposition. You need to revaluate what a failure actually is in the context of ww2, as opposed to in the eyes of internet armchair experts.
@@NitroNuggetTV This nonsense comes from 'The Chieftain's Hatch' RUclips channel. The Chieftain, Maj. Moran, US Army, started out as Irish and has become an American - hence his fanatical hatred of anything British (well, also anything not actually American). Moran now devotes every minute of his day attempting to prove that every piece of American military supply, weapons, ammo, tanks, AFVs generally and particularly, every aspect of American military leadership in every war ever etc was superior to everything else in the world. You often get this wild uber-nationalism in people who turn their back on the country of their birth and choose another one. Perhaps it's a guilt thing. Anyway, Major Moran has become a bore - an unreliable bore, in fact - as his judgement has become progressively more impaired by patriotic zeal. There are better sources of historical information online now.
I'm a modeler from the Southeastern US, and I have learned so much from watching your videos! I love Workshop Wednesdays, and enjoyed seeing that Panther Maybach Engine work video right when I was building a model of a King Tiger, with pretty much the same engine. I am posting a vid in the next week of that finished build, and I mention you guys in it. Your attention to tanks and your overhauls and rebuilds are amazing! Very clean, thorough and well done, and the ones that run, are a sight (and sound!) to behold! Thanks so much for all your awesome works! Tell those hard working guys that they are appreciated, even over here in the US!
Great yarn Jason. A good looking weapon and what a good save to bring her back to the UK to get patched up to this nice condition. We're lucky to have this machine in Australia
Jason, another great video, thanks mate! Happy birthday to AusArmour, and a very big thanks to Rob Lowden for making his ever growing ‘personal’ collection available to the pubic, good on ya mate!! Maybe one day Rob could sit down for an interview with you or Kurt? Cheers,
Happy birthday AA&A Museum! The A27M is my favourit. I have scratch built one RC in 1/6 scale but not put any markings on it yet. I'll make a copy of yours. My JagdPanther is very much inspired of yours. Thank you for the work you do.
Jason - thanks once again for the tour of your displays. As a tourist just walking around I wouldn’t know what I was looking at. Your tour guild spots are a real educational treat. 🤠Tanks for keeping us “on track”
An awesome addition! Not just a random runner, but one with first-class provenance! The only thing better would have been a Workshop Wednesday restoration.
Congratulation on ten years and I thank you am 76 live on a small fixed income would never be able to visit there but thanks to you I can see and enjoy this
For late starters, the Museum has certainly thrown together an impressive collection in a short space of time in an increasingly competitive environment. Congratulations!
Wow!!! I'm looking forward to getting back to the museum to see this Beast!! I met Jason this time last year, and was very impressed with his knowledge and appreciated the time he took to explain the history of the collection it self. Brilliant museum, brilliant experience.
Look amazing. where i live on the lincs coast we have one on the beach ( comet ) from the lfet over RAF bombing range. Your tank looks really good 🙂Thank uou for another great video from m e and my dog Max in the uk.
I remeber reading in troop leader the exhaust cowl was particularly useful for initial start ups, as the Meteor tended to smoke on first start after a night of rest In a laeger.
There is a Cromwell on a display plinth at Thetford Forest in Norfolk UK. Named Little Audrey, commemorates the Seventh Armoured Brigade that trained in Thetford Forest in 1944 prior to taking part in the d day landings.
That flat plate, including the drivers port, is the perfect place for a 88mm AP to whistle trough, like a hot knife through butter! But otherwise, the perfect tank, in the era of the Pak36.
This vehicle is from the period after they left the desert and returned to the UK for the European campaign. As dad would say they went from El Alamein to Berlin ( Hamburg actually )
Way hey, Adrian barrell, now that's a name I remember used to be local to me I remember visiting his family engineering business, I remember he had at least three Sherman tanks on his premises, and for all I know he could still be there.
I think starting this channel was a very smart move. I'm Australian and had no idea this museum existed until this channel appeared (granted, I'm on the other side of the country in Perth). Now I'm planning a trip to Cairns just to visit. You guys deserve mountains of government funding for helping to preserve the nation's military history and bringing foreign tanks down under.
Me too, planning my trip as well😁😁
We don't want the grubment to get involved in anything.
Government too busy lining their own pockets to care about anything like this unless they can profit off it .
Don't let the government pay for a private museum, as then the government can force them to do what they want. I firmly believe in the private business model, and since this is a private collection, I would not want the government to prop them up.
I beleve in the future this museum should be place in a trust for the community who are involed with it and not given to a greedy government or big business to sell it off peice by peice.
Congratulations to Rob and the whole team for creating a truly world class exhibition and living history space!
The Cromwell looks like it's brand new. Gorgeous!
Cromwell (tank) doesn't get enough love, my favourite Brit tank. This vehicle has a great history, glad to see it survived the cutting torch.
Yeah, I love the Cromwell. Learning about tanks from a modern viewpoint, it's the first British one you get to where you go "Yeah, that looks like a proper tank". Gorgeous piece of kit 😊
Cromwell was more expensive, less reliable, less protected, harder to maintain, and worse armed than the Sherman. An absolute failure of a tank.
@@Mattamaza Bit like the F35 then.
@@Mattamaza "failure of a tank" righto lol
It was a valued workhorse in ww2 with a huge amount of service success. Please stop posting statements about topics you clearly don't have a mature or informed understanding of. Lets not pretend that it didn't play a duly recognised contribution to the success of the allies in ww2. Sherman was a well engineered and versatile tank, but that doesn't make every other tank bellow it a failure. Cromwell had excellent mobility, low silhouette and a good gun, often out matching most of its opposition. You need to revaluate what a failure actually is in the context of ww2, as opposed to in the eyes of internet armchair experts.
@@NitroNuggetTV This nonsense comes from 'The Chieftain's Hatch' RUclips channel. The Chieftain, Maj. Moran, US Army, started out as Irish and has become an American - hence his fanatical hatred of anything British (well, also anything not actually American). Moran now devotes every minute of his day attempting to prove that every piece of American military supply, weapons, ammo, tanks, AFVs generally and particularly, every aspect of American military leadership in every war ever etc was superior to everything else in the world. You often get this wild uber-nationalism in people who turn their back on the country of their birth and choose another one. Perhaps it's a guilt thing. Anyway, Major Moran has become a bore - an unreliable bore, in fact - as his judgement has become progressively more impaired by patriotic zeal. There are better sources of historical information online now.
I'm a modeler from the Southeastern US, and I have learned so much from watching your videos! I love Workshop Wednesdays, and enjoyed seeing that Panther Maybach Engine work video right when I was building a model of a King Tiger, with pretty much the same engine. I am posting a vid in the next week of that finished build, and I mention you guys in it. Your attention to tanks and your overhauls and rebuilds are amazing! Very clean, thorough and well done, and the ones that run, are a sight (and sound!) to behold! Thanks so much for all your awesome works! Tell those hard working guys that they are appreciated, even over here in the US!
Handsome tank, well restored. Thanks for the fine presentation. Happy Birthday AusArmour.
Great yarn Jason. A good looking weapon and what a good save to bring her back to the UK to get patched up to this nice condition. We're lucky to have this machine in Australia
It sounded beasty. Happy birthday to the Museum.
Its such an impressively restored vehicle
Happy Birthday, fantastic place.
Congratulations on your 10th anniversary !!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉 What you all do there is priceless !!! Thanks from the USA !!! 🇺🇲 / 🇦🇺
Outstanding exhibit with its original engine.
Jason, another great video, thanks mate!
Happy birthday to AusArmour, and a very big thanks to Rob Lowden for making his ever growing ‘personal’ collection available to the pubic, good on ya mate!!
Maybe one day Rob could sit down for an interview with you or Kurt?
Cheers,
Congratulations for your 10 years anniversary! Keep going guys!
Happy birthday AA&A Museum! The A27M is my favourit. I have scratch built one RC in 1/6 scale but not put any markings on it yet. I'll make a copy of yours. My JagdPanther is very much inspired of yours. Thank you for the work you do.
Happy Anniversary! Great Collection! Love this series!
What a beautiful tank
Jason - thanks once again for the tour of your displays. As a tourist just walking around I wouldn’t know what I was looking at. Your tour guild spots are a real educational treat.
🤠Tanks for keeping us “on track”
Love me a Cromwell. Great exhibit.
Jasons knowledge and attention to detail is outstanding. Well done good to see. I have a request, can he do a talk on the use of tanks in Vietnam?
Steve in the driver’s seat grinning like a Cheshire cat!
An awesome addition! Not just a random runner, but one with first-class provenance! The only thing better would have been a Workshop Wednesday restoration.
Great briefing Jason, thank very much. Admire your encyclopaedic knowledge and ability to deliver so well.
I am southern American, I have a difficulty keeping up with how fast he talks . Great info .I just have to stop video and replay ever now and again.
Great information served! Was pleased to hear it running!
I am writing you from South Texas.
Beautiful! I love the sound of that engine and thank you for the overview.
Congratulations on the anniversary
Many happy returns of the day!
Absolutely awesome, thanks Jason, Cheers
Cromwell tank, my love 😊
great example with some amazing pedigree - and happy birthday to Australian Armour & Artillery Museum
Happy birthday! Love the museum...
Well done, Jason. Congratulations on the museum's anniversary,
Congratulation on ten years and I thank you am 76 live on a small fixed income would never be able to visit there but thanks to you I can see and enjoy this
Outstanding walk around, specification information and history.
Thank You!
Happy birthday- Let’s get it on the track- what an excellent story
Happy anniversary
Brilliant 👍
Great video
Thank you for posting.
Cheers
For late starters, the Museum has certainly thrown together an impressive collection in a short space of time in an increasingly competitive environment. Congratulations!
Happy Birthday - from the States - Michigan to Be Exact...Stay Safe...
congrats on a decade of operation rob, and crew!!! what an awesome piece of history!
Congratulations on ten great years! A lot of hard work and care you've put into the Museum and it shows!
A great addition
Happy Anniversary Aus Armor ❤ !! Great museum and an amazingly talented staff.
What a great history for this tank.
Happy birthday to Aus Armor!
Wow!!! I'm looking forward to getting back to the museum to see this Beast!! I met Jason this time last year, and was very impressed with his knowledge and appreciated the time he took to explain the history of the collection it self. Brilliant museum, brilliant experience.
Happy Birthday mate Respect
Happy Birthday to you all
wow what a fantastic vehicle and history
Congrats - and what a story :)
Look amazing. where i live on the lincs coast we have one on the beach ( comet ) from the lfet over RAF bombing range. Your tank looks really good 🙂Thank uou for another great video from m e and my dog Max in the uk.
This museum does excellent work.
Happy birthday 🥳. Great job
A remarkable restoration. Thanks Jason.
Thank you.
Congratulations. Going to your museum would be the only reason i would go to australia. 😊
Very distinctive and beautiful tank.
great history on this one. Good work keeping it circulation.
Lovely looking tank.
These segments are extremely enjoyable, very informative, and made with high production value. Keep it up.
Happy Birthday ! You guys have made a great museum site and workshop in only 10 years. Kudos to you and your team !
Happy Birthday Oz Armour. Looks like it's just rolled out of the factory, nice addition to the collection. Thanks again for another cracking video.
My Dad served in Cromwells for a time in NW Europe.(and he lived!)
Awesome history on your Cromwell!
Excellent piece of history - good work 👍👍
Holy cow, the museum has only been open for 10 years?! 😮
I can't believe what you guys have accomplished in such a short time!
Man, what a trip. Coming in hot with a whole bunch of info! WTG
Splendid achievement.
Beautiful restoration there. Happy to see it in the markings of the most handsome, excellent & modest regiment in the British Army 😂
I really enjoyed my visit to the museum around this time last year 👍👍 I enjoyed it as much as I did Bovington in 2019 ☺
Excellent presentation and history.
I remeber reading in troop leader the exhaust cowl was particularly useful for initial start ups, as the Meteor tended to smoke on first start after a night of rest In a laeger.
Love the detailed history.
Thanks :)
Wonderful.
Happy Anniversary. I always enjoy your content; I learn more with each vid I watch.
There is a Cromwell on a display plinth at Thetford Forest in Norfolk UK. Named Little Audrey, commemorates the Seventh Armoured Brigade that trained in Thetford Forest in 1944 prior to taking part in the d day landings.
Happy Birthday🥳 Love this channel.
Great video, well done.
🎖️⭐🏆🙏❤️🩹
Thank you for sharing this
10 years, awesome. here's to the next 10.
Love your videos.
Ok, that naming scheme for the tank was pretty cool.
happy birthday.... love your content. you are on my bucket list
Fantastic restoration. Is it possible the machine guns will be fitted in the future?
Happy Birthday AusArmour 🎉🎂🍻
Congrats on 10! You guys have accomplished a lot in a relatively short time. Look forward to seeing what happens the next 10.
Happy birthday Ausarmor!!!
Today also is my marriage anniversary. 13 yrs and counting.
The naming system for the tanks showed that the brits had a sense of humour.
The Cromwell is what made it possible for the 7th armored division to make it 70 miles a day after their breakthrough on D Day!
Probably not. The head of the spear doesn't travel without the haft. Oh.. And the 7th used mixed units of 3 Cromwell's and 1 Firefly.
"after their breakthrough on D Day!"
On D Day ?
That flat plate, including the drivers port, is the perfect place for a 88mm AP to whistle trough, like a hot knife through butter! But otherwise, the perfect tank, in the era of the Pak36.
Oh noes! A tank that can be penned! Good thing no German tanks could ever suffer that fate, eh?
Nice one.
Happy birthday
I was in Cairns in 2013, missed out on visiting Aus Armour by a year 😢
I do like these vehicles, they did seem to be a big old school design wise given when they came into service
Great video
What is surprising is that it still exists after all it went through.
Great tank, my favourite - your tracks could do with a little more tension.
I didn't realize the Desert Rats fielded tanks in green. Great video.
This vehicle is from the period after they left the desert and returned to the UK for the European campaign. As dad would say they went from El Alamein to Berlin ( Hamburg actually )
Way hey, Adrian barrell, now that's a name I remember used to be local to me I remember visiting his family engineering business, I remember he had at least three Sherman tanks on his premises, and for all I know he could still be there.