@@gastonbell108 There's no moulding process that could adequately represent his razor sharp wit either. That'd be a nice lifetime modelling project though: make one of everything the Tank Museum has in its collection.
Well...when you're 6'5" like Nicholas Moran, you might need to remove the steering wheel to get both in & out. Oh bugger, the steering wheel is on fire!
I think it would be easily solved with one of those “push the shape through and turn 90’” type locks. You often find them on kids toys. It’s solid once locked and all you’d have to do to get it off is turn the thing a right angle and pull.
@Charles Yuditsky Well, according to Mr Fletcher, it was done so the driver could get into his seat....just like an F1 car of today. Hence the comment. ;-)
"worth a............spit" XD I think he had the first two letters of that word differently in his head there before his mind pulled the emergency break :D
Haha, he was probably thinking of some soldier's statement about it since they would go about describing gun performance that way, and did a quick mental rephrase :D
Merci pour ce commentaire, hommage à mon père qui a combattu dans cet engin en Indochine en 1946/48, et qui a beaucoup apprécié l'utilisation de cet armoured car et surtout la mitrailleuse Besa qui lui a sauvé la vie maintes fois. Cordialement JJ
This Tank vids are the best, David Fletcher knowledge is second too none . Please Jeremy Clarkson or someone from Grand Tour do a video on Sir David Fletcher .
I was having a not so good day and then... David's smiling face greeted me today as I tuned in to watch the latest Tank Chat! Thank you for having this man talk about one of our favorite topics! :)
At 5:30 and on... showing the two side views, transposed on top of one another, to then help see the slight differences, was neat, that really makes a difference in helping my small brain see the topic at hand... Thank you for taking the time to add that bit of video slide comparison, I am sure it took so time to align them just right for the effect.... It was neat to see that...
This armored car does look nice. I think it has that contemporary look to it. It looks not too dissimilar to modern versions, or rather AFV's as they are known now. Maybe outdated, but it still looks kinda modern.
@@unexpectedcaveman6573 At 6'5" or 196cm, I should say not... :) At a husky 6'1", I often get claustrophobic heebie-jeebies just watching his videos... :/
I always liked brits arm. Cars especially the WW2 Humber and my No.1 the Ferret and No.2 the Saladin, we had many times per year the brits in our Villages, Field and Forrests and i enjoyed it as a young boy to play inside this Cars
This is my first video of yours that I have watched. And even with the good World War II content aside, just your personality, and the way you presented your video, was more than enough to have me like and subscribe. Keep up the good work, cheers and tally ho.
Employment was in everyone's mind to knock out a "enemy tank", if they would have made a HE round it would have been a good support for advancing infantry against soft skin vehicle's and dug in troops, other tank killers were in use and the full use of the Coventry was not put to the test in Europe after 1944. Great Video Sir David
Hey the idea is that you're not exactly sending this against Tigers, and the German's own lighter stuff like half-tracks and their own armoured cars would still be vulnerable to a 2-pounder
Yeah but there were usually Panzer 3, 4 and Panthers around too, flak 88's and antitank guns, panzer Faust's... Germans were good at destroying impotent thinly armoured English armour by this stage.
As for stuff like Panzerfausts if the crew weren't in a position to run away from those too and had no infantry escort to deal with the operators, they were dead ANYWAY and would likely have been in ANY Allied vehicle
@@MostlyPennyCat the speed, thin armour and 2 PDR combo had universally been proved in- optimum by this stage of the war. I think the reason they said it was obsolete was they had better armour options available, hence obsolete.
@@indyrock8148 That was why it was small, fast, quiet, hid easily and had the ability to be driven backward at speed without the need of turning. The vehicle was for reconnaissance, not trading blows with enemy armors. Nobody used a lumbering noisy heavy tank for reconnaissance.
Seems like a good size and good fighting shape. The vehicle shape doesn't look obsolete the gun might be, if the suspension tires upgrade would be great for that fighting weight
The AEC and the Staghound were heavier than the Coventry. The Coventry is about the same weight as the Saracen. The American engine was used because Britain did not have a petrol engine of suitable power. The 158 hp AEC diesel would have been OK but there was a preference for petrol at the time.
nice one diddy ,i been wantin to know about that coventry ,cas i got george fortys book on armoured cars an it tells you nuttin about service of that ,only in french service nuttin about british service !
It may not have been as good ad its contemporaries but it was a good looking vehicle, and with a seventy five it would pack a fair wallop, if we had run short of Humber's and Daimler's then I think the Coventry's history may well have been different. While the two pounder may have been a bit lacking as an anti tank gun by then, there was plenty of other targets both lightly armoured and unarmored to shoot at, which is why the Daimler carried on using it to beyond the wars end, the Hercules engine was an interesting choice but as far as it being petrol, just about everything was run on it at the time so that should not be viewed as a negative point, the fact that the turret ring could take a seventy five was worthy of note as up gunning to that degree would have been a problem in many armoured vehicles, a Matilda with a seventy five would have been rather potent as would a Crusader. As I say if not for the Humber then it would have been seen in a different light.
Well apparently someone in the British Army was using them before the sale to the French. In your closing Black and White photo on this video a Coventry armored car is sitting behind and to the left the group of British soldiers in the photograph.
Since aluminium/aluminum metal was first discovered (smelted from the common compound alum) by Danish and German scientists, I think that earns them the naming rights. That makes “aluminium,” the preferred Danish and German spelling, the preferred one.
It seems to me that you can add a slat cage, swap the gun for an automatic grenade launcer, and that would make it ideal for the low intensity conflicts going on nowadays.
My father did two tours of duty in Vietnam. He told me there was a WW2 armored car used by one of the ARVN officers. The vehicle had at some point lost one of its original tires and had a tire from a civilian vehicle in its place. I wonder if that was one of these Coventrys
I asked my father when I saw him this evening and he said he couldn't remember what kind of armored car it was, but he thought it was French. He was sure it was not a Greyhound, though.
I’d really, really like to have David Fletchers voice as my tank commander in World of Tanks: Blitz instead of the anonymous stock type voice on there now that calls out penetration/bounce and that announces when certain components of tanks take damage. Please World of Tanks: Blitz make this an option. I know you’re reading this.
Feel like I need a 1/35 scale David Fletcher to stand alongside my armour models.
There's probably someone out there who can 3-D print you one, that would be cool though...
No artist can reproduce the nuances of his mustache
Could the Tank Museum sell it in their shop?
Revell briefly expressed interest in a kit model, but found that there was no known metal hard enough to adequately reproduce Fletcher's mustache.
@@gastonbell108 There's no moulding process that could adequately represent his razor sharp wit either. That'd be a nice lifetime modelling project though: make one of everything the Tank Museum has in its collection.
(2:06) "A car without a steering wheel is a bit of a waste of time."
- David Fletcher, October 8, 2019
;) We love you, David! :D
They should make a book filled with quotes from him.
@@SlyPearTree AGREED!!!!
"It wasn't all that good but we'll get to that in a minute"
I love it, straight to the point.
I like the look of it. As you say it does look Daimlerish.
Cars without steering wheels are indeed a waste of time.
Terry Wilkinson Coventry doing the Formula 1 thing before F1 was cool
Providing you stick to straight roads, it ain't so bad
Unless your hobby is crashing.
@@flypast9725 Best to get an armored car then
It's what vice grips were invented for.
I get the feeling that an “Oh no, the cars on fire” test would not kindly look upon the removable steering wheel seatbelt.
Yeah, that was what I was thinking as well. Removing that nut during a fire would probably be the longest few seconds of your life.
I think you could get out, just not in, with the steering wheel in place. Thinking about how the human body bends and twists...
Well...when you're 6'5" like Nicholas Moran, you might need to remove the steering wheel to get both in & out. Oh bugger, the steering wheel is on fire!
@@franzfanz or last...
I think it would be easily solved with one of those “push the shape through and turn 90’” type locks.
You often find them on kids toys.
It’s solid once locked and all you’d have to do to get it off is turn the thing a right angle and pull.
Removable steering wheel!? This was designed for the 1943 F1 championship.
There's nothing new is there......
@Charles Yuditsky Well, according to Mr Fletcher, it was done so the driver could get into his seat....just like an F1 car of today. Hence the comment. ;-)
@Charles Yuditsky That's OK. I suspeted you may not have watched the whole video.
enjoy Davids explanations very much...
A rare and interesting vehicle even if it was not used by Great Britain. Thank you David Fletcher.
"worth a............spit" XD I think he had the first two letters of that word differently in his head there before his mind pulled the emergency break :D
Haha, he was probably thinking of some soldier's statement about it since they would go about describing gun performance that way, and did a quick mental rephrase :D
🤣🤣🤣
Naturally you need a kitchen sink for the enamel mugs and the teapot.
Of course. 👍
Yeah but the sun of north africa does the job
@@build2270 Very cold at night and early morning. I think it is not dissimilar of the Australian desert.
@@CharlesvanDijk-ir6bl yeah
I wish I knew Mr. Fletcher. I love his British humor and his inside jokes and he's not a bad presenter.
Even the subscibe message at the beginning is exemplary - short, sweet and to the point. So many youtubers could learn from this.
I love how laid back this guy is, great job. Well done.
The 75mm version looks awesome...
Yes it does. That would have been a. Fkn BEAST in ww2. More speed than 99% of the other vehicles.... and yet... 75mm gun.
JackG79 a glass cannon if you will
@@JackG79 This wasn't a very fast vehicle. About as fast as the cruiser tanks were. And the size and lack of armor make it a very easy target.
Cheers David Fletcher! I can listen to you guys talk all day about tanks! Nothing quite like the morning coffee and a tank chat!
Merci pour ce commentaire, hommage à mon père qui a combattu dans cet engin en Indochine en 1946/48, et qui a beaucoup apprécié l'utilisation de cet armoured car et surtout la mitrailleuse Besa qui lui a sauvé la vie maintes fois.
Cordialement JJ
I like this channel because they give honest and accurate assessments.
David Fletcher. The grandad we all wish we had! Legend!
Gods, I love Tank Chats series! Every time I think I'm done watching them all, there is always more!
The word "gallumphing" springs to mind when watching it porpoise around the test area....
Well gallumph means to go prancing in triumph so ?
This Tank vids are the best, David Fletcher knowledge is second too none . Please Jeremy Clarkson or someone from Grand Tour do a video on Sir David Fletcher .
Yay! The king of Armour Vehicle information and mustaches, Mr. Fletcher!!
Nothing is more beautiful than a pak38 taking out a coventry!
I was having a not so good day and then... David's smiling face greeted me today as I tuned in to watch the latest Tank Chat! Thank you for having this man talk about one of our favorite topics! :)
It might not have been very good, but it certainly looks great.
I hope wargaming implements it with both turrets as options.
I want in game too!!!!
Its in Battlefield 5 and pretty nice to drive 👍
At 5:30 and on... showing the two side views, transposed on top of one another, to then help see the slight differences, was neat, that really makes a difference in helping my small brain see the topic at hand... Thank you for taking the time to add that bit of video slide comparison, I am sure it took so time to align them just right for the effect.... It was neat to see that...
You can't help to like David Fletcher when he's talking about anything armored.
Looks perfect for the morning commute. A nimble little grocery wagon if there ever was one.
Thank you , Mr Fletcher .
I guess you could say that the crews got sent to Coventry! :)
*I'll let myself out.
Hehehehe
You have to know British culture to get that one.
no no, stay, tell us another. it cant be as bad as that one :D
@@khaccanhle1930 believe it or not... im a new yorker and i get it.
@@ThePsiclone I'm afraid I really must be going but I had a lovely time. Tanks for the memories everyone! :D
Daimler: "Who are you?"
Coventry: "I'm you... but worse."
This armored car does look nice. I think it has that contemporary look to it. It looks not too dissimilar to modern versions, or rather AFV's as they are known now.
Maybe outdated, but it still looks kinda modern.
It looks comparable to an M8 Greyhound, with the Coventry having better offroad capability but the M8 being a lot lighter and cheaper to produce.
@@paulfrantizek102 Eland armoured car would be a direct post war equivalent.
Another great tank chat. This an essential channel for any tank enthusiast in the world.
A removable steering wheel? I'd like to see the Chieftain do an "oh my God the tank is on fire" from the drivers seat.
That was my first thought as well
He probably couldn't get into the position at all.
@@petesheppard1709 yeah, he's not the shortest of blokes isn't he?
@@unexpectedcaveman6573 At 6'5" or 196cm, I should say not... :) At a husky 6'1", I often get claustrophobic heebie-jeebies just watching his videos... :/
I adore armored cars even when they are quirky. Thank you for the video.
I just discovered this channel today, and i've already binged 65 of these tank chats
Great work, I've already learnt so much, keep it up!
Always nice to see you, sir! God Bless!
David. Please do a chat on the Staghound soon. Thanks for the chat on the Coventry.
David is the best !!! 👍👍👍👌
I always liked brits arm. Cars especially the WW2 Humber and my No.1 the Ferret and No.2 the Saladin, we had many times per year the brits in our Villages, Field and Forrests and i enjoyed it as a young boy to play inside this Cars
Apart from a 6 cylinder Hercules engine, it also comes with bouncy castle suspension, look at it at 0:52.
I don't think they had bouncy castles back then. Maybe 8 slinkys. 🙃
David Fletcher=Instant Like
I had a problem with stray cats so i got one of these & one blast from the 2pounder did the job.
I'm from and live in Belfast. Would be many a variant patrolled the streets here at the start of the troubles from 1969!
'Why not subscribe to the tank museum channel and watch them all?' - Why not indeed.
Exactly!
Also that non/syncronous first gear is know as a “granny gear”, 😂 common on 1960’s up to mid-70s American trucks.
Thanks for the great information you and your team did great I love seeing all the tanks and armoured fighting vehicles
Oh joy, a new tank chat! Christmas came early!
I love this guy, I can see him in a British comedy.
Both interesting and funny! Thanks for the video! An armored car with a kitchen sink? Sounds like a good idea.
Low praise indeed for a British armored car to be sold to the French Army.
They appreciated the five reverse gears
And the steering wheel in the back.
That's why they sold them in the first place....
I love the design and look of this armoured car.
Love a good tank chat well done!
This is my first video of yours that I have watched. And even with the good World War II content aside, just your personality, and the way you presented your video, was more than enough to have me like and subscribe. Keep up the good work, cheers and tally ho.
When David Fletcher tells me to like and subscribe, I do as he says. It's a shame I'm already subscribed :/ I want to support this channel more!
David Fletcher is the history teacher I wished I had in school.
Having to take the steering wheel off to get out, I hope you don't have to get out fast in an emergency 😀.
one for The_Chieftain
Don't worry, if you have to get out in a hurry it is amazing just what obstacles you can get your body past.
Much like how a Formula 1 car works. xD
@@RaXXha oh yeah you're right, I didn't think about that. Even street hot rods have that on some very high-end steering wheels
When your world goes to hell, "now let me get this nut off"
This guy is already a legend
Great vid David.
David Fletcher always reminds of The Professor from Felix the cat
Looked him up. The similarities are uncanny o.o
Great video
Employment was in everyone's mind to knock out a "enemy tank", if they would have made a HE round it would have been a good support for advancing infantry against soft skin vehicle's and dug in troops, other tank killers were in use and the full use of the Coventry was not put to the test in Europe after 1944. Great Video Sir David
Hey the idea is that you're not exactly sending this against Tigers, and the German's own lighter stuff like half-tracks and their own armoured cars would still be vulnerable to a 2-pounder
Yeah but there were usually Panzer 3, 4 and Panthers around too, flak 88's and antitank guns, panzer Faust's... Germans were good at destroying impotent thinly armoured English armour by this stage.
As for stuff like Panzerfausts if the crew weren't in a position to run away from those too and had no infantry escort to deal with the operators, they were dead ANYWAY and would likely have been in ANY Allied vehicle
@@indyrock8148
I think that's what the speeds for, you don't fight in this thing, you scout, very quickly.
@@MostlyPennyCat the speed, thin armour and 2 PDR combo had universally been proved in- optimum by this stage of the war.
I think the reason they said it was obsolete was they had better armour options available, hence obsolete.
@@indyrock8148 That was why it was small, fast, quiet, hid easily and had the ability to be driven backward at speed without the need of turning. The vehicle was for reconnaissance, not trading blows with enemy armors. Nobody used a lumbering noisy heavy tank for reconnaissance.
Again thank you for a great video
Seems like a good size and good fighting shape. The vehicle shape doesn't look obsolete the gun might be, if the suspension tires upgrade would be great for that fighting weight
4:28 It couldn't fire HE worth a - thinking about appropriate term, then finding one - spit.
It probably would have really come in handy during the Italian campaign, battles like Ortona etc...
I want a Fletcher action figure !
I need one of these for Traffic … boom get out the way. “ I’m driving here”. Lol
Thanks.👍
Thanks.
Sir David, I will and have subscribed.
Having had experience of Coventry Climax fork trucks I can say "lucky it never saw action".
the first gen hummer also had a wide track to follow in the ruts of tanks
I would have loved to see a kitchen sink fitted into this. Hahaha
neat looking vehicle.
"Why don't subscribe to The Tank Museum channel abd watch them all?"
"Because I've already done that a thousand times, sir Fletcher!"
The AEC and the Staghound were heavier than the Coventry. The Coventry is about the same weight as the Saracen. The American engine was used because Britain did not have a petrol engine of suitable power. The 158 hp AEC diesel would have been OK but there was a preference for petrol at the time.
Good show
I heard Wargaming are working on British Light wheeled vehicles....
i Love tank chats
I kind of love the looks of it though.
So many vehicles built in both large and small numbers and never used.
Good job.
nice one diddy ,i been wantin to know about that coventry ,cas i got george fortys book on armoured cars an it tells you nuttin about service of that ,only in french service nuttin about british service !
I imagine reversing out of narrow hedge lined lanes was the reason for the dual driver position. Almost impossible to turn around on the spot.
It may not have been as good ad its contemporaries but it was a good looking vehicle, and with a seventy five it would pack a fair wallop, if we had run short of Humber's and Daimler's then I think the Coventry's history may well have been different. While the two pounder may have been a bit lacking as an anti tank gun by then, there was plenty of other targets both lightly armoured and unarmored to shoot at, which is why the Daimler carried on using it to beyond the wars end, the Hercules engine was an interesting choice but as far as it being petrol, just about everything was run on it at the time so that should not be viewed as a negative point, the fact that the turret ring could take a seventy five was worthy of note as up gunning to that degree would have been a problem in many armoured vehicles, a Matilda with a seventy five would have been rather potent as would a Crusader. As I say if not for the Humber then it would have been seen in a different light.
Why is there no model of David Fletcher Mk1 housed in the Tank Museum? There should be 👍
Theres a Fletcher mug in the gift shop, so he's immortalised in Tea.
I pretty sure I've seen Fletcher in the Tanks! documentaries in the 90s.
Hope to see these in WoT... maybe it'll balance out the horrendous current brit light line. And some competition for the froggies new lights.
In the photo showing the rear drivers position there appears to be an ammo stowage area with 7.92 mm stenciled on it. Should it not read 7.62??
Well apparently someone in the British Army was using them before the sale to the French. In your closing Black and White photo on this video a Coventry armored car is sitting behind and to the left the group of British soldiers in the photograph.
But not in combat.
@@MFitz12 maybe, maybe not. He had said it was never fielded by the British.
@@ditzydoo4378 - No. He said it was not used in combat by the British in WWII.
Since aluminium/aluminum metal was first discovered (smelted from the common compound alum) by Danish and German scientists, I think that earns them the naming rights. That makes “aluminium,” the preferred Danish and German spelling, the preferred one.
Hey the tank Museum! Can you do a tank chat on the Kanonenjagdpanzer?
The Staghound armoured car, of which several thousand were in use with the British and Commonwealth armies, was even slightly bigger and heavier.
That's a heavy armored car!
It seems to me that you can add a slat cage, swap the gun for an automatic grenade launcer, and that would make it ideal for the low intensity conflicts going on nowadays.
My father did two tours of duty in Vietnam. He told me there was a WW2 armored car used by one of the ARVN officers. The vehicle had at some point lost one of its original tires and had a tire from a civilian vehicle in its place. I wonder if that was one of these Coventrys
Could’ve been but doesn’t strike me as very likely. I wonder if it was a US Greyhound, which were also used in WW2.
I asked my father when I saw him this evening and he said he couldn't remember what kind of armored car it was, but he thought it was French. He was sure it was not a Greyhound, though.
Can you do an episode on the Staghound? My Grandfather was in the 12th Manitoba Dragoons (he did not go overseas due to a hernia).
I’d really, really like to have David Fletchers voice as my tank commander in World of Tanks: Blitz instead of the anonymous stock type voice on there now that calls out penetration/bounce and that announces when certain components of tanks take damage. Please World of Tanks: Blitz make this an option. I know you’re reading this.