I'm sure the blokes working at the nearby supermarket will be giving David all their toilet paper for driving a churchill and blessing them with the presence of his moustache.
"Quarantine day 45: the tanks have been freed from their cages" I totally support that, these things have been made to run freely on the wild and break the tactical, operational and strategic stalemates forced on commanders on the Western Front by the effectiveness of entrenched defensive infantry armed with machine guns! they do not belong in a zoo!
There are lots of trucks which can be easily turned into 4x4 6x6 APC or armored car. What you get in the end is not heavier than the truck itself when fully loaded. Any modern military truck that carry ammo, fuel, weaponry is armored to some degree. One thing for sure - if its armored internally (plates are covered with the truck cabin body panels) its done the wrong way. Aside from kevlar blankets of course.
Yea. Deathtraps and under powered comes to mind. With drum brakes and high center of gravity and not much grunt gives one magical feeling of death and horror. I rather take a tank tyvm.
@@TheDiner50 That is such a great idea. Since the tank costs 50x of some nice armored MAN trucks fitted by the Rheinmetall... You can SIT on a tank to not walk. But its not for your comfort. More like for your presrnce on battlefield with the reast of the platoon.
"The back doesn't appear to be used for anything! Just a big space but that's the way they liked it". Mr. Fletcher you are brutally hilarious in your delivery.
I did notice in several photographs that they sported Churchill tank sights on the top of the turret. I believe the Irish Army was still using Churchill up to the 60s. I was watching an old video about the Sturmgeschutz a couple of days ago. David was on it and looked much younger, but the moustache looked the same age as it does now. There is a rumour that the moustache is, in fact, a family heirloom and dates back to the later 19th century. During WW1 David's great-great-grandfather, while wearing said moustache, had to explain the Mark IV tank to King George V. This means that the moustache took part in the worlds first tank chat.
@@gaelan2k9 one of the Churchills ended up on display on the seafront in Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland, as some Churchill production took place there during the war. The thank has an interesting back story in that it bogged on the range while in service with the Irish army and lacking heavy lifting gear capable of extracting it, they simply removed the turret and buried the chassis! At a later date it was dug up cosmetically restored and ended up in Carrickfergus as a static display. At the time local school children also created a full size replica for display at their local town hall.
They were the only vehicles to have seen actual combat with over 15 being deployed to the Congo. Some were left with the Congolese army at end of conflict.
People may comment on the size of the vehicle and wonder if it was necessary but for the time there was nothing that really compared to it in Ireland, so an element of a fear factor is present as David discusses around the 6:48 mark, which would often deter anyone from messing with such a vehicle
@Andrew Barnett No, it isn't. If you throw a molotov at a vent the petrol will leak inside, if you throw a man at the vent he will not get inside, you moron.
It wasn’t that the money was being collected for army wages but instead, it was common for cash in transit deliveries to have an army escort. Bank and post office robberies were the main form of financing for the Provisional IRA so these deliveries were a tempting target.
The Irish Defence Forces originated as the Irish Volunteers which was founded in 1913 in the fight for independence. Their official title in the Irish Language is Óglaigh na hÉireann, Irish Volunteers. They were originally the IRA so they were the ones driving these machines.
@@unofficiallymike for some reason history seems to be repeating its self almost in every ex British colony, I mean in Cyprus you have the original " eoka " movement and then ones eoka manage to form a government independent from Britain you get " eoka- b " ( like saying b- version or mk2) fighting against the original eoka's government... just insane
My old Uncle Seamus used to drive us around as kids in the 60's in his Morris Minor which had the semaphore 'trafficators' . Like others have commented below, he too had to thump the B pillar if they stuck. Funny the things you remember. Someone also commented on the iIish having Churchill tanks. There used to be one parked on the artillery / tank range in the Glen of Immal in Co. Wicklow in the 70's (not as a target). Don't know what became of it. Because of underfunding back then the Irish Army was almost a living museum and the engineers were skilled at keeping old stuff going. Seem to have excellent vehicles now.
Great comment. The Churchill was a good tank for Ireland when you think about it. Funnily enough, when I first joined the British Army in the late 70s I remember seeing a Churchill AVRE deployed in Germany by a reserve engineering regiment. Reliable beast apparently that could climb anything. It's amazing how the Irish Army kept all this old kit going, a marvel in itself. It's not that long ago that the scorpion and 25 pdr went out of service. I worked briefly with the Irish Army in kosovo, great bunch of lads. They were under command of the Turkish logistics brigade. After a few days, the commander came to our HQ and asked if he could be attached to us operationally (whilst remaining officially on the Turkish ORBAT for admin, for political sensitivities). We welcomed them with open arms, really professional bunch. In fact a few of the NCOs had trained in the British Army. Good bunch of blokes, all of them.
@@gunner678 Hello Matthew. Great to hear of that sort of co-operation. Can't have been easy keeping the peace in Kosovo. Some of the things on the news at the time were dreadful. A dark chapter in modern Europe's history.
I think the one parked on the range either broke down or got stuck so it was left there, the weapons were removed and stored in the armoury until they went out to to the range to do target practice, they were refitted na taken out again after they finished, kept that up until they shot all the ammo they had for it and didn't have the budget to buy anymore, the story I think went was that there were local kids climbing all over it and one fell off it and got hurt, so when the child's mother complained about it and went looking for money to pay the doctors, they buried it because they couldn't recover it, but If I'm not mistaken it was dug up and tidied and it is now in Belfast
@garymellett123 Thanks for the information, Gary. It would be nice to think it's been looked after and enjoyed. Am I right in thinking the Churchill did very badly in the Dieppe raid because the shingle got wedged between the small road wheels and the track, and most of the tanks never got off the beach? If I remember correctly, during the planning for D-Day, having learned this lesson, the Allies covertly took sand samples off the Normandy beaches in order to ensure they were suitable for landing armour.
@barryolaith yes you are correct, the shingle of dieppe wreaked havoc on the churchills, lodging between road wheels and sprockets and breaking track, and yes I believe there were samples taken of the beaches, they were reconoitered by frogmen I believe before the invasion I'm not too sure though,
My mum's Morris Minor had flappy semaphore indicators. They would often get stuck open, so dad and I put some after-market modern indicators on...but left the semaphores on just for the lols (rewired to both pop up at once).
One of the irisch landverks has ended up at the dutch cavalerie museum. Idk how but its there. Edit: if you ask nicely you are maybe allowed to climb in a tank
The Dutch swapped it for something, I don't know what the Irish got in exchange. There is another Landsverk L-180 in the Netherlands that was bought from a private collector in Ireland, and it is being converted to look like the old Dutch L-180s.
@@mcpuff2318 1998 a Swedish C130 flew into Baldonnel aerodrome and offloaded a Scania APC used by the Irish and Swedes in the Congo conflict and in return, the Irish loaded up a Landsverk car used by 11th Motor Squadron.
I had the privilege of obtaining a license to drive one of these vehicles when I was in the Irish Reserve Defence Forces (similar to the Territorials) in the late 70's. Ironically I was not old enough legally to drive it on the roads as I had 'adjusted' my Birth certificate to allow me to sign up!!!!!
Someone found the mustache hiding in the museum . How wonderful . Good thing he had clothes on . If it were me , I'd have been in a bathrobe and helmet driving in the yard .
I was wondering if she'd feature in this series, delighted to see the Defence Forces represented by David Fletcher 😊 My Masters thesis examined the procurement and employment of AFVs in the Irish Army from 1940 to 1970, so the "make do and mend" method necessary in the Cavalry Workshops before lessons learned with the UN is a major theme 😊
@oliste it was initially hoped to use the larger armoured cars such as the Landsverk and Leyland, however weight and space restrictions on the aircraft used to ferry the battalions and Armoured Car groups to the Congo ruled them out, meaning they had to bring the much smaller Ford Mk. VI armoured cars instead.
@oliste glad to hear it, always a pleasure to get people to look I to the history of Irish Army vehicles as its something often overlooked I think. They were products of their time and were reasonably well suited for an improvised defence of strategic ports and airfields during WWII, but they did suffer losses, both in combat and mechanically, in the 1960s on ONUC so the really were instrumental in kickstarting the modernisation of the Irish Army from Cyprus onwards.
@@jamesbacon748 I know there's a copy in the History Department collection. I could alternatively send you an e-copy via email if you can pm me an address? =)
Our first car was a Morris Oxford (1958) and it had them. Occasionally it would jam, and it was my job as a 7 year old to whack the inside of the door pillar as hard as I could to free it up, which was a responsibility I took very seriously. My father always used hand signals anyway, and indicators weren't compulsory. Turning left (RHD car of course) was a particularly elegant and balletic motion of the hand. We called them trafficators.
thisnicklldo Remember this myself , we had an Austin A30 with the same trafficators and the same requirement for door post thumping . I remember you could identify the slightly later ,though very similar, A35 was by the indicator lights that were mounted above the door posts . We called the « dugs lugs»
I think when he talks about the IRA, he's really talking about the old or official IRA as it didn't have an extensive arsenal in it's day. The Provisional IRA that came much later was frightfully well financed and equipped by comparison and was receiving shipments of RPG-7 grenade launchers from Libya and Barret Light .50cal anti material rifles from the USA, not to mention a number of heavy machine guns of the Russian variety.
@Celtic Resistance I wouldn't dispute the old IRA having TNT, but what I will dispute is the willpower to engage an armoured vehicle with a 20mm cannon on it with only one playing card. Had they failed to knock it out with the TNT then that 20mm cannon could be brought to bear against the volunteers and they would have been powerless to stop it. It would have been a different matter later on in history with the Provo's as they could have disabled that vehicle and even upon failure could still bring a lethal array of weapons to bear to either finish the vehicle off for good, or at least have the capacity to fight their way out of the vicinity.
@@belfastsoul8863 The Provisional IRA were extremely Left wing in their political views. Think Left as in Che Guevara. The old 1920s-1940s IRA had no time for socialism.
@@samprastherabbit so left are the Provos and Sinn Fein now, that they can be considered more Official than the Officials. Cathal Goulding called Gerry Adams to say he wants his party back
In those times people used to stick out their arm to indicate they are about to turn. However, since this are armored cars, they would need an armored hand to do that, and there just wasn't enough knights around for the job. So they had to do with the indicators.
".... but much more powerful, it was about 135 horsepower ...." whoa, 6 tons, 45 mph and 135 hp, I'm floored. And someone (like the bearded chap at the end) should unlock the door and let poor Mr. Fletcher out of museum storage now and again. 😆
On a closer look, I realize that it's the base of the right hand jack stand. But my first thought when the shot of this vehicle in the museum came on screen was: "Why is it's tongue hanging out?" and more importantly, "Why is it forked?" I'm just going to wander off quietly now...
@@comhghallgeraghty3541 David mispronounced Howth, but you can't blame him for it, really. If you've never heard it, you're quite likely to get it wrong. And in relative terms, the Curragh's quite close to Dublin by the standards of any country larger than Belgium.
Fully stocked with additional six packs stored in the turret , bottle of bushmills for heavy engagement's😂☘️👍, reminds me of the famous radio request during the siege of jadotville , 'send more whisky!'
(4:11) Semaphore turn indicators! That is very interesting! I have never heard of such a device, but now that I know it really makes a lot of sense, before the use of lights for turn signals. Fascinating. Now I'm going to have to do a search for more vehicles that used them! ;) Thank you, Mr. Fletcher! :)
@@patrickwalker2509 Wow. Very interesting. Now I have something to interesting to muddle about with on the Internet the next time I take a break! Thank you! :)
They were driving in the same side of the road in Ireland and Sweden at that time. A bit peculiar that the Swedish car had the steering in the other side than the one built in Ireland. Sweden changed side of the road in the 1970’s but they have not made the same change for trains yet.
I suppose it is because the Swedish railway network is isolated from the rest of mainland Europe (except for the Öresundsbridge) and that it doesn't really matter which side you are driving on with trains.
_Total panic when I see the notification: where it #100? Where is #100?_ *opens video to have something to relieve feel of dispair* _ in relief when reading description_
I think the space at the back may have been for troops, maybe? The Irish defence force don't use tanks, generally. They seem to not for armoured patrol or personnel carriers or a vehicle that serves as both. They opt for MOWAGs now. I'm not certain, just an observation.
Wonder what the stopping distance from 45 mph is like in one of those. I reckon it would nearly be 3 miles and the breaks would be glowing a bright red. Lol
3:33 Also the Dutch used Landsverk 180 and 181 armoured cars and the were used in the second World War for defending airforce bases around The Hague and reconaissance. They performed well but we only had 24. The Germans took them over and have used them in Russia. A Dutch museum has bought an Irish Landsverk, made it up and has it now in its collection. www.landsverk-m38.nl/M38_inleiding.htm
The Gov't (Probably): You guys need to self isolate!
David Fletcher: Ok *locks himself in the tank museum for a month*
And arent we thankful
And that's when he encounters a wild Lloyd aka Lindybeige.
I'm sure the blokes working at the nearby supermarket will be giving David all their toilet paper for driving a churchill and blessing them with the presence of his moustache.
Did he really lock himself in lol!? what a mad lad
Tank historian is on list of essential professions
I see who won the Rocks, Paper, Scissors, and got to shelter in place in the Museum.
Well. We all are meant to stay at home. So I can't think there was a question where everyone was going to stay home at.
I imagine that he lives there anyway, in a warren underneath the museum. :D
They locked him in by accident
He lives inside the TOG. There is plenty of room for a cocktail party in the back.
"Quarantine day 45:
the tanks have been freed from their cages"
I totally support that, these things have been made to run freely on the wild and break the tactical, operational and strategic stalemates forced on commanders on the Western Front by the effectiveness of entrenched defensive infantry armed with machine guns!
they do not belong in a zoo!
There is something magical about old armoured cars...
Yeah, to get them to work you need magic.
There are lots of trucks which can be easily turned into 4x4 6x6 APC or armored car. What you get in the end is not heavier than the truck itself when fully loaded. Any modern military truck that carry ammo, fuel, weaponry is armored to some degree. One thing for sure - if its armored internally (plates are covered with the truck cabin body panels) its done the wrong way. Aside from kevlar blankets of course.
I love armored cars. From the US Greyhound to the German 8 rad.
Yea. Deathtraps and under powered comes to mind. With drum brakes and high center of gravity and not much grunt gives one magical feeling of death and horror.
I rather take a tank tyvm.
@@TheDiner50 That is such a great idea. Since the tank costs 50x of some nice armored MAN trucks fitted by the Rheinmetall...
You can SIT on a tank to not walk. But its not for your comfort. More like for your presrnce on battlefield with the reast of the platoon.
The campaign to adopt David Fletcher as my adopted grandfather is in full swing! Let’s make this happen people.
You can't have him, I have first dibs😂😂
"The back doesn't appear to be used for anything! Just a big space but that's the way they liked it". Mr. Fletcher you are brutally hilarious in your delivery.
DaGleese noic
it's for storing fertilizer
@@bobmcbob49 Whiskey kegs.
"...made the top speed about 45 mph, which was faster than you'd wanna go on something shaped like this anyway."
Gotta love him.
When the tank museum and forgotten weapons uploads at the same time
Truly we are blessed.
Forgotten weapons up loaded too?! Sweet.
The two greatest mustaches on the internet, we are truly blessed!
Would Love to see Gun Jesus and David Fletcher ( Tank Lord.? )
Team up and talk about a tank and go though all of the weopons on it.
I did notice in several photographs that they sported Churchill tank sights on the top of the turret. I believe the Irish Army was still using Churchill up to the 60s.
I was watching an old video about the Sturmgeschutz a couple of days ago. David was on it and looked much younger, but the moustache looked the same age as it does now. There is a rumour that the moustache is, in fact, a family heirloom and dates back to the later 19th century. During WW1 David's great-great-grandfather, while wearing said moustache, had to explain the Mark IV tank to King George V. This means that the moustache took part in the worlds first tank chat.
Comet was retired in 1971. Don't know about the Churchill - surely earlier.
@@robinusher5707 I think the Irish army had four churchills that lasted to the end of the sixties
@@stewartellinson8846 They wouldn't have taken a Cromwell, that's for sure!
The Churchill and Comets are still around the Curragh Camp, they were trying to get a Comet running but couldn't get an engine
@@gaelan2k9 one of the Churchills ended up on display on the seafront in Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland, as some Churchill production took place there during the war.
The thank has an interesting back story in that it bogged on the range while in service with the Irish army and lacking heavy lifting gear capable of extracting it, they simply removed the turret and buried the chassis!
At a later date it was dug up cosmetically restored and ended up in Carrickfergus as a static display.
At the time local school children also created a full size replica for display at their local town hall.
The Irish also built Ford Armoured Cars from their workshops too. Some are on display at Collins Museum in Dublin.
They were the only vehicles to have seen actual combat with over 15 being deployed to the Congo. Some were left with the Congolese army at end of conflict.
The Ford MK VI in the Curragh is still running, as is the Leyland among others.
People may comment on the size of the vehicle and wonder if it was necessary but for the time there was nothing that really compared to it in Ireland, so an element of a fear factor is present as David discusses around the 6:48 mark, which would often deter anyone from messing with such a vehicle
It's so big that it actually makes the machine gun look more powerful, like it's an actual cannon or something.
Few molotovs could destroy that thing. Especially if they got petrol inside.
@Andrew Barnett No, it isn't. If you throw a molotov at a vent the petrol will leak inside, if you throw a man at the vent he will not get inside, you moron.
@@ShredCo wrong. You just have to throw him hard enough
@@Laotzu.Goldbug Touché.
I’d be bored to tears during quarantine if I hadn’t recently stumbled across this channel. Great videos
It wasn’t that the money was being collected for army wages but instead, it was common for cash in transit deliveries to have an army escort.
Bank and post office robberies were the main form of financing for the Provisional IRA so these deliveries were a tempting target.
I saw this once in Ennistymon about 20 years ago.. Pretty slick operation.
Use to do several a week when I served for a few years back in the 90's
Is the 100th tank chat going to be David Fletcher chatting about the history of his moustache?
Actualy i am a bit concered that his Mustache will eat him one Day.
@Golden Eagle some say it fought the communists in south Vietnam in the 70's
Must be tough to drink tea!
His moustache is just an extra frontal armor plate
That mustache is the only known thing that a Bob Semple Tank can't defeat.
Picturing a 96 year old IRA bank robber swearing as he watches this.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
spikydipple well he obviously escaped if he made it to 96
The Irish Defence Forces originated as the Irish Volunteers which was founded in 1913 in the fight for independence. Their official title in the Irish Language is Óglaigh na hÉireann, Irish Volunteers. They were originally the IRA so they were the ones driving these machines.
@@unofficiallymike He means PIRA but it's commonly called IRA
@@unofficiallymike for some reason history seems to be repeating its self almost in every ex British colony,
I mean in Cyprus you have the original " eoka " movement and then ones eoka manage to form a government independent from Britain you get " eoka- b " ( like saying b- version or mk2) fighting against the original eoka's government... just insane
Been binge watching David Fletcher early documentaries he was in.
got link ?
Any chance of sharing a linky to them?
Dito
My old Uncle Seamus used to drive us around as kids in the 60's in his Morris Minor which had the semaphore 'trafficators' . Like others have commented below, he too had to thump the B pillar if they stuck. Funny the things you remember. Someone also commented on the iIish having Churchill tanks. There used to be one parked on the artillery / tank range in the Glen of Immal in Co. Wicklow in the 70's (not as a target). Don't know what became of it. Because of underfunding back then the Irish Army was almost a living museum and the engineers were skilled at keeping old stuff going. Seem to have excellent vehicles now.
Great comment. The Churchill was a good tank for Ireland when you think about it. Funnily enough, when I first joined the British Army in the late 70s I remember seeing a Churchill AVRE deployed in Germany by a reserve engineering regiment. Reliable beast apparently that could climb anything. It's amazing how the Irish Army kept all this old kit going, a marvel in itself. It's not that long ago that the scorpion and 25 pdr went out of service. I worked briefly with the Irish Army in kosovo, great bunch of lads. They were under command of the Turkish logistics brigade. After a few days, the commander came to our HQ and asked if he could be attached to us operationally (whilst remaining officially on the Turkish ORBAT for admin, for political sensitivities). We welcomed them with open arms, really professional bunch. In fact a few of the NCOs had trained in the British Army. Good bunch of blokes, all of them.
@@gunner678 Hello Matthew. Great to hear of that sort of co-operation. Can't have been easy keeping the peace in Kosovo. Some of the things on the news at the time were dreadful. A dark chapter in modern Europe's history.
I think the one parked on the range either broke down or got stuck so it was left there, the weapons were removed and stored in the armoury until they went out to to the range to do target practice, they were refitted na taken out again after they finished, kept that up until they shot all the ammo they had for it and didn't have the budget to buy anymore, the story I think went was that there were local kids climbing all over it and one fell off it and got hurt, so when the child's mother complained about it and went looking for money to pay the doctors, they buried it because they couldn't recover it, but If I'm not mistaken it was dug up and tidied and it is now in Belfast
@garymellett123 Thanks for the information, Gary. It would be nice to think it's been looked after and enjoyed.
Am I right in thinking the Churchill did very badly in the Dieppe raid because the shingle got wedged between the small road wheels and the track, and most of the tanks never got off the beach? If I remember correctly, during the planning for D-Day, having learned this lesson, the Allies covertly took sand samples off the Normandy beaches in order to ensure they were suitable for landing armour.
@barryolaith yes you are correct, the shingle of dieppe wreaked havoc on the churchills, lodging between road wheels and sprockets and breaking track, and yes I believe there were samples taken of the beaches, they were reconoitered by frogmen I believe before the invasion I'm not too sure though,
Semaphore indicators! Dr Fletcher, you take me back to my childhood
Thank ye lads for making this, I love seeing my nation's history being taught. Fantastic episode
I am a Tank Museum Patreon thanks to the efforts of David Fletcher and David Willey. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and producing these videos!
I'm an old army ranger and I love this channel
Without a doubt the best military museum I’ve ever visited. Loved the pronunciation of Howth 🙂. Locals pronounce it like Hooth!
Some needs to follow this guy around and document every thing he knows about each tank . Love these chats and your awesome Sir .
Where does Sir David get all of this information? No autocue or idiot boards, just fluid, informative delivery with nice asides. Lovely.
David Fletcher is an MBE recipient; he is not a Knight...
Cheers Mr Fletcher. Thanks again to the TankMuseum
Lovely Video, great to see the Leyland and David both in fine form. Many thanks indeed. Be safe.
My mum's Morris Minor had flappy semaphore indicators. They would often get stuck open, so dad and I put some after-market modern indicators on...but left the semaphores on just for the lols (rewired to both pop up at once).
He's my favorite historian. I like his humor.
One of the irisch landverks has ended up at the dutch cavalerie museum.
Idk how but its there.
Edit: if you ask nicely you are maybe allowed to climb in a tank
I think i may have a picture of that one. In Amersfoort yes?
@@66kbm yes
The Dutch swapped it for something, I don't know what the Irish got in exchange. There is another Landsverk L-180 in the Netherlands that was bought from a private collector in Ireland, and it is being converted to look like the old Dutch L-180s.
@@MickKeenan with the 37mm? Because at the cavalerie museum they didn't realy change it
@@mcpuff2318 1998 a Swedish C130 flew into Baldonnel aerodrome and offloaded a Scania APC used by the Irish and Swedes in the Congo conflict and in return, the Irish loaded up a Landsverk car used by 11th Motor Squadron.
I hope all the Bovington Musseum staff is safe.
Thanks for the treatment received in the last tankfest.
Mr. Panzer is the best!!
No one can talk about tanks like he do....
Appreciate your dedication to go out in public and teach us but please stay safe it's bad here across the pond
Thank you , Mr Fletcher .
Thanks and best regards from Ireland lads. Keep up the good work.
Great video, David! Very nice to see an Irish military vehicle on the channel.
Excellent show and vehicle to show us! Thank you.
I remember the first tank chat. Time flies .
Am I the only one who hits the like button on every video Mr. Fletcher is in even before he starts talking?
Another great Fletchism “as fast as you would want to go in a thing shaped like that”.
Perfect timing just put the kettle on
I started watching every chats starting at episode 3. Wow. 101 of these now.
I was in the transport museum in Howth on a school trip, in the 80's.
An Irish armoured vehicle? Never thought I’d come across that- great video as always
I had the privilege of obtaining a license to drive one of these vehicles when I was in the Irish Reserve Defence Forces (similar to the Territorials) in the late 70's. Ironically I was not old enough legally to drive it on the roads as I had 'adjusted' my Birth certificate to allow me to sign up!!!!!
No disrespect to the other Museum staff, but when I see a David Fletcher video...
*I SMASH THE LIKE!*
Thank you for the content to all at Bovington.
Cheers fellas. Thanks for the content in these trying times. 🍻
4:04 the Irish have heart for headlamps!
No we don't
Someone found the mustache hiding in the museum . How wonderful .
Good thing he had clothes on . If it were me , I'd have been in a bathrobe and helmet driving in the yard .
he was actually racing around naked in 131 when they found him, had to wash and dress him before making the film.
I would love to get naked in a certain fancy tank there coverd in white grease.I look a bit like David with my moustashio as its where I keep my hash.
David Fletcher's mustache actually filters all his incoming air like an NBC system. Unfortunately he also loses power in dusty environments.
Did chuckle at that comment...
Thanks for this guys. Amazing work.. definitely going to sign up To your patreon
Yeah a 20 mm Madsen would make me think twice too.
Mr Fletcher, I hope you are safe and well!
I remember the semaphore signals on vehicles here in Canada. 🇨🇦That’s how old l am.🤠
Awesome Video!!!!Awesome Creation!!!!
I would like to see interior photos of the vehicles during Tank Chats.
This looks perfect for weekly grocery shopping trips
That big space was for hauling turf and Guinness. That's how we did thing back then.
Glad I'm not the only one unable to get a haircut because of COVID....
A somewhat delayed St. Patrick's Day salute to the Leyland? Well done David Fletcher for carrying on during the current plague!
I was wondering if she'd feature in this series, delighted to see the Defence Forces represented by David Fletcher 😊 My Masters thesis examined the procurement and employment of AFVs in the Irish Army from 1940 to 1970, so the "make do and mend" method necessary in the Cavalry Workshops before lessons learned with the UN is a major theme 😊
@oliste it was initially hoped to use the larger armoured cars such as the Landsverk and Leyland, however weight and space restrictions on the aircraft used to ferry the battalions and Armoured Car groups to the Congo ruled them out, meaning they had to bring the much smaller Ford Mk. VI armoured cars instead.
@oliste glad to hear it, always a pleasure to get people to look I to the history of Irish Army vehicles as its something often overlooked I think. They were products of their time and were reasonably well suited for an improvised defence of strategic ports and airfields during WWII, but they did suffer losses, both in combat and mechanically, in the 1960s on ONUC so the really were instrumental in kickstarting the modernisation of the Irish Army from Cyprus onwards.
Now this sounds like a fantastic piece of work, where could one find a reading copy of your thesis Alan?? ;-)
@@jamesbacon748 I know there's a copy in the History Department collection. I could alternatively send you an e-copy via email if you can pm me an address? =)
I remember a Volkswagen with the semaphore indicators..
Our first car was a Morris Oxford (1958) and it had them. Occasionally it would jam, and it was my job as a 7 year old to whack the inside of the door pillar as hard as I could to free it up, which was a responsibility I took very seriously. My father always used hand signals anyway, and indicators weren't compulsory. Turning left (RHD car of course) was a particularly elegant and balletic motion of the hand. We called them trafficators.
VW bug with semaphore turn signals. First car I ever drove. Had the small rear window
thisnicklldo
Remember this myself , we had an Austin A30 with the same trafficators and the same requirement for door post thumping . I remember you could identify the slightly later ,though very similar, A35 was by the indicator lights that were mounted above the door posts . We called the « dugs lugs»
Nice memories of Fathers A 90 Atlantic , in the late '50's .
Pretty sure the kubelwagon had them too
I think when he talks about the IRA, he's really talking about the old or official IRA as it didn't have an extensive arsenal in it's day. The Provisional IRA that came much later was frightfully well financed and equipped by comparison and was receiving shipments of RPG-7 grenade launchers from Libya and Barret Light .50cal anti material rifles from the USA, not to mention a number of heavy machine guns of the Russian variety.
@Celtic Resistance I wouldn't dispute the old IRA having TNT, but what I will dispute is the willpower to engage an armoured vehicle with a 20mm cannon on it with only one playing card. Had they failed to knock it out with the TNT then that 20mm cannon could be brought to bear against the volunteers and they would have been powerless to stop it. It would have been a different matter later on in history with the Provo's as they could have disabled that vehicle and even upon failure could still bring a lethal array of weapons to bear to either finish the vehicle off for good, or at least have the capacity to fight their way out of the vicinity.
@nopinkcreations wrong on the political point.
@@belfastsoul8863 The Provisional IRA were extremely Left wing in their political views. Think Left as in Che Guevara. The old 1920s-1940s IRA had no time for socialism.
Fair play, Noel. Nice to see someone with a good sense of actual Irish history in the comments.
@@samprastherabbit so left are the Provos and Sinn Fein now, that they can be considered more Official than the Officials. Cathal Goulding called Gerry Adams to say he wants his party back
I just see loads of tank chat videos while watching them and I’m torn on what to watch
Like em ?
Love em !
Love this guy!!! As British as you can get. 😉
In those times people used to stick out their arm to indicate they are about to turn. However, since this are armored cars, they would need an armored hand to do that, and there just wasn't enough knights around for the job. So they had to do with the indicators.
I think the body was built and assembled by Thompson and son in Carlow Ireland.
".... but much more powerful, it was about 135 horsepower ...." whoa, 6 tons, 45 mph and 135 hp, I'm floored. And someone (like the bearded chap at the end) should unlock the door and let poor Mr. Fletcher out of museum storage now and again. 😆
On a closer look, I realize that it's the base of the right hand jack stand. But my first thought when the shot of this vehicle in the museum came on screen was: "Why is it's tongue hanging out?" and more importantly, "Why is it forked?" I'm just going to wander off quietly now...
The Curragh is county Kildare FYI quite correct it borders Dublin however
@@fistingendakenny8781 ??
@@comhghallgeraghty3541 David mispronounced Howth, but you can't blame him for it, really. If you've never heard it, you're quite likely to get it wrong.
And in relative terms, the Curragh's quite close to Dublin by the standards of any country larger than Belgium.
@@TheChieftainsHatch agreed
Thanks.
Your awesome be safe out there
An armoured car with trafficators, makes sense for the time. More commonly seen on early Morris Minors, these days.
Reminds me a bit of the Soviet BA-10
Rumors say,the car was equipped with the very effective NAPGC ( No Armour Penetrating Guinness Cans )
Fully stocked with additional six packs stored in the turret 😂☘️👍
Fully stocked with additional six packs stored in the turret , bottle of bushmills for heavy engagement's😂☘️👍, reminds me of the famous radio request during the siege of jadotville , 'send more whisky!'
(4:11) Semaphore turn indicators! That is very interesting! I have never heard of such a device, but now that I know it really makes a lot of sense, before the use of lights for turn signals. Fascinating. Now I'm going to have to do a search for more vehicles that used them! ;) Thank you, Mr. Fletcher! :)
Check out the original Morris MInor!
I can remember most cars in the UK had them when I was young
Also called Trafficators as well.
@@teaurn Thanks you! Interesting images of that car. :)
@@patrickwalker2509 Wow. Very interesting. Now I have something to interesting to muddle about with on the Internet the next time I take a break! Thank you! :)
Enjoyable as always
Fun Fact: The Danes added the Madsen 20 mm Cannon to Nimbus motorcycles in a special sidecar.
They were driving in the same side of the road in Ireland and Sweden at that time.
A bit peculiar that the Swedish car had the steering in the other side than the one built in Ireland.
Sweden changed side of the road in the 1970’s but they have not made the same change for trains yet.
I suppose it is because the Swedish railway network is isolated from the rest of mainland Europe (except for the Öresundsbridge) and that it doesn't really matter which side you are driving on with trains.
Perhaps the export variants of that vehicle were all left-hand drive to increase marketability abroad (?)
@@Paranomasia12 Weirdly enough all Swedish cars where built with left hand drive even when we drove on the left side of the road.
Hm, I wonder how interesting it would be to have Sir David Fletch and Nicholas Moran (AKA The Chieftain) collaborating on some of these.
I jus luv this guy!
_Total panic when I see the notification: where it #100? Where is #100?_
*opens video to have something to relieve feel of dispair*
_ in relief when reading description_
The tank museum talks about anything Irish
THE CHIEFTAIN: HOMST HAS AWOKEN THE ALL MIGHTY ONE
We want to drink beer with David Fletcher.
I think the space at the back may have been for troops, maybe?
The Irish defence force don't use tanks, generally. They seem to not for armoured patrol or personnel carriers or a vehicle that serves as both. They opt for MOWAGs now.
I'm not certain, just an observation.
Awesome and Cheers!
Oh Bugger the Irish Leyland Armoured Car is ON FIRE!! lol! Cheers!
Tank Chats , David Fletcher , clicks three times fast .
That an fv4005 stage 2 in the background at 3:20?
wow really cool!
I believe the semaphore-indicators were called 'trafficators'
I'd like to see this up and running , maybe at tankfest ?
Maybe with a diesel engine
Wonder what the stopping distance from 45 mph is like in one of those. I reckon it would nearly be 3 miles and the breaks would be glowing a bright red. Lol
I knew that turret looked familiar! So it is from a swedish tank.
The turret is extremely similar to that of the Leichttraktor.
3:33 Also the Dutch used Landsverk 180 and 181 armoured cars and the were used in the second World War for defending airforce bases around The Hague and reconaissance. They performed well but we only had 24. The Germans took them over and have used them in Russia. A Dutch museum has bought an Irish Landsverk, made it up and has it now in its collection. www.landsverk-m38.nl/M38_inleiding.htm
Very interesting !
Wow! I drifted off a second and thought I had moved on to the Ba-10. I guess sometimes form DOES define function.
Sweden had right hand drive until the end of the 1960s so the LHD Landsberg might have been their standard export version.
Interesting vehicle.
"I am David Fletcher, I speak for the Tanks"