Tanks and Buses: Serving the Front Line | Hidden London Hangouts (S04E12)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- The team visit @thetankmuseum at Bovington to meet Curator David Willey and explore the surprising shared DNA between some early tanks and London buses.
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Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like if you were all in the classic Blue Peter studio!
"Tanks" a lot for this! I never knew that some tanks were powered by bus engines!!
Thanks for keeping us all entertained and for your wonderful positive vibes each week.
Not negative waves???
Thank You Guys another fantastic video
A great bit of history that most of us probably didn’t know much about.😀👍
Great episode guys. I'm a tank enthusiast, I was a sergeant major and tank driver in the Israeli army back in the day. Loved learning about the history of this magnificent vehicle. If you ever get a chance, come to the armoured corps museum in Israel. It's almost as big as Bovington.
Hi guys.
Great vlog, love that museum.
I was a train driver on the metro 62 stock and D stock for 14 years.
One of the controversial things at that time were female drivers and guard.
The only problem I could find with female staff as a crew was the emergency coupling, if a train broke down in front we as a crew had to get this big lump of a metal coupling out and fix it to both trains. I love the idea of women working on the underground but we as blokes had trouble lifting this coupling but I don't think most females could handle it at that time.
Glad things have changed for the better now.
A lot of female workers nowadays (lorry drivers etc.) Are just as good if not better than a lot of men. I have also been a trucker for 30 years so have seen it all first hand.
Love history so keep it up guys.
Pete and Su.
Tanks for a great episode!
Did you get to meet the man, the moustache, the legend that is David Fletcher while you were at Bovington?
You touched on moving tanks to the frontline, the early tanks in WWI had hinged sponsons - they swung inwards - so they would fit on the railway network for easy transport.
Great episode, thank you.
Thanks for yet another brilliant episode these programmes on Saturday evenings are far better than anything on tv.
Did anyone see the episode of Eggheads on Wednesday 17 Nov? There was a question about Johnston type face the Eggheads got the question wrong and lost. Perhaps they should start watching the hangouts.
Keep up the great work
Brilliant episode, like when you are talking about transporting vehicles through tube lines with the Sherman tank from the fury film behind you! The tank museum is at the top of my list of places to visit.
Well that was interesting. Had no idea of this LT - war effort connection. Hope your arm's improving Laura... Thx all!
Tank on the underground? How would it fit in the lift?
Fascinating history, thank you!
Who’d a thunk a tank was so close to the ol’ 98b I used to catch when I was a kid! Just tried imagining driving a tank through the deep level tube … 😂
Eight crew in a MkIV - people were not as tall as they are now so it would have been cramped but nothing like as bad as it appears today. Plus dietary makeup welas not as good so many blokes were Iike bantamweights. If you felt the weight of the webbing on display at Bovington in the WWI area I have no idea how they managed to lift that lot never mind carry it.
Great and timely episode thank you.
AEC Matador was also a 10 ton Ammo carrier for the Royal Artillery
The dirt Detectives on tour
I’d be at home waiting for bad news, rather than be on the front line - fighting,
oops sorry to be a tad late-time change and all
A shame that the Manchester tank didn't have a Gardner engine!
❤ U Alex. God save the Queen.
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Chris Nix, Siddy Holloway, Alex Grundon, Laura Hilton it's such a nice video, but tank engines weren't my type of thing. Because I'm more into buses, tube, trolleybuses and trains that's why 😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉
why do u make it sound like women had a choice to work
the men where fighting over seas it was the womens job to protect london
and make stuff for the army. do u think that once all the men where gone
the women fell apart no the put there boots on and just got to work ur looking
at it from moden women point of view