The Norfolk Tank Museum
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2019
- So this week Rita and I went to a tiny little tank museum in deepest, darkest Norfolk. Luckily, the natives were friendly.
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"There's no way you could fit 5 men inside of that!"
Spoiled Capitalist! That tank has more living room than luxury soviet apartment!
Barley Sixseventwo - In Soviet Russia, tank fits you!
"Like the surface of Tattoine but with more cabbages." ROFLMAO
sunday video? all hail the Gnome Overlord!
(you don't really need the boiling vessel sir, just wait for the Jingles Effect to start a fire)
is jingles a galaxy note 7?
Yes the heat will be achieved but what about the water?
Simpler than that - all he has to do to get a kettle boiled and a pot of tea made is to raise his hand and click his fingers. He doesn't have minions for nothing!
incel? galaxy note 7?
heavens no, didn't you hear what happened at tankfest? - Jingles didn't attend this year's tankfest so the Jingles Effect activated and started a fire
oh no jingle, you are going to send thousand of people to this museum next holidays break. They will curse you! :D
I am glad I hope it makes good money to help it out, this will be a good thing for the museum!
They will curse him all the way to the bank.
@@UnintentionalSubmarine oh yes indeed!
Hopefully it will not be a Jingles effect, but a steady trickle of interested people that have seen it mentioned. I have climbed into the fighting compartment of a modern Swedish APC and it was a tight fit (not that tall, but let's just say it is a good thing the crew have to enter in battle gear) so while looking inside is for everyone, crawling into a tank is definitely not for everyone.
Their web site however....
You all forget not all of the people who follow jingles A. Live in the uk B. Live near norfolk and C. Have the ability to go there.
The new mic does the job, clear sound over the engine start for Rita!
While the museum looked great and all, the sheer joy on Rita's face tells it all. She really should be hired to do marketing for them!
What...? Did the Chieftain tank have smoothbore gun...? Oh, I guess this is the proof that it's the real Jingles...
rrreeeeeeeeeeeee. Jingles that is a crime against your own nation!
and four men inside a Chieftain turret?
A Conqueror, sure (with it's two loaders), but not a Chieftain!
Did I miss something? Yea, he did say the Chief had a 5 man crew - wich it didn't, but where did Jingles claim the Chieftain had a smoothbore gun?
yeah, was searching for comments on this to. If I am not mistaken, next Challenger iteration/refit will probably be one of the first to have a smoothbore in UK service, but not finally decided upon.
@@Bird_Dog00 2:20
Deborah II - not just 'built for a TV show' (though yes, it was), BUT, built by (though with help!) another british legend, Guy Martin! In fact Mr Jingles, if you have a little search, you will see him taking part in some Spitfire and Vulcan bomber restoration work too! I like to think of him as a modern day Fred Dibnah. A trune 'hands on' mechanic who not only knows his stuff, but LOVES it.
thank you jingles for comming to norfolk where i live and recognising that norfolk has things to offer and show people iv been to this museum more times then remember i have great memories there
so again massive thank you from a norfolk lad
So is Norfolk just like Tatooine, but with more cabbages? Lived in the other Norfolk.
Hopefully the swams of Jingles' minions doesn't disturb the peace.
Jingles: Pronounces Carbine the American way
Me: It's Treason then!
Thank you for the "Norfolk Experience" Jingles. It was quite a noisy yet fulfilling video :)
Dammit Jingles, I love these museum tours. Keep'em coming!
I too trained on the SLR - or at least the Canadian variant of the FN FAL, the FNC1. I first encountered it in 1983 at the age of 17 while taking an Air Cadet smallbore rifle coaching course that was entirely .22 LR. The Army lads took us kiddies out to their range, handed over the FNs, told us the same thing they told you ("Pull it in tight and mind the eye relief") and let us have a go. I emptied a 20-round mag that consisted of 1 round of jaw-dropped panic followed by 19 rounds of giggling like a schoolgirl, went home, and did 22 years in the Army.
But my leige, it's Sunday. You are too kind to bless us with your presence on your day off.
The new microphone 🎤 system seems to be working very well. I could hear Rita loud and clear, even on the armored car. And I know how loud those things can be. 👍👍
1:06 The PIAT Launcher, a spring loaded anti tank weapon!
Wait, they took the boiling vessel out of the Challenger? HERESY, Every British Tank MUST have the ability to make tea! It's mutiny boys, CHARGE!
The man who would've been Jeremy Clarksons father in law made good use of a PIAT Launcher during the Battle of Arnhem at Oosterbeek. from @ 2.45 , ruclips.net/video/dowO-kbra1M/видео.html. The man had Titanium balls the size of the Moon! More about Major Bob McCain VC here, ruclips.net/video/-G33CdtGVcI/видео.html.
someone obviously needed it for home use
Well with all the laws on keeping fully functional and armed tanks in collections they just figured out an easy solution to make this Challenger MBT non battle ready lol
Every British armoured vehicle not just tanks
*All British Army equipment must be capable of making Tea.
- Totally from the Queens regulations.
Jingles and Rita take drive to the local store, IN AN ARMORED CAR. Nice!
No boiling vessel?! It's obviously not a British tank anymore.
"Sorry sir. Beyond repair. They've stripped the most vital equipment out"
"I was trained on this weapon!"
Immediately muzzle flags Rita lol
So glad somebody said something about that lol. I couldnt believe he waved the barrel around like that just sayin
@@cinjonsmythe6318 I mean to be fair, he did check it's condition, but rule #1 is treat it like it's loaded
@@SldgeHammr then again, he was Royal Navy...
Having grown up with a Coastal artillery Lt.Col. dad, and done my compulsory service for 10 months in a mech inf. Batallion, I'm practically astounded that an ex navy logistics sailor like Jingles even know which end of a rifle the muzzle is at all XD
He was naval HR. Had he been a gunners mate or master-at-arms, I'd say let him have it. Hell, most navies aren't big on their sailors learning to shoot much of anything lest they realize that officers are entirely unnecessary in the handling of a ship at sea save to bollox things up even harder than they already are.
The artillery piece at 7:38 is a post war Czech modification of the 15cm s F.H.18. It's called the 152 mm houfnice vz.18/47 and has a shorter barrel, muzzle break and was rebored to the Soviet standard 152mm calibre.
This museum really reminds me of the AAF Tank Museum in Danville, Virginia but better. The AAF Tank Museum doesn't let you touch the display vehicles or equipment.
There is a tank museum in Norfolk, Virginia in the US as well that is quite the lovely museum. Their version of tank day involves live fire demonstrations because it’s America.
Lol, I could spend an hour just looking at those Lee-Enfield rifles.
Of course the natives were friendly, it's Norfolk. They were just glad to meet someone they weren't related to.
Oh, and if you think an SLR kicks don't whatever you do have a go with a Lee Enfield.
I actually visited this place about a month ago. We managed to be the first and only people there, so Steve and the lads spent a good 4 hours with us showing us round and telling us almost everything about all the vehicles. Not only could we climb in the chieftain, but all of the other vehicles too and they also fired up Deborah. Like jingles says, really cannot recommend the place enough, and the lads there were absolutely great! If you ever go, try go on a quiet day, it's ace!
And I also noticed the boiling vessel was missing in the chieftain after telling my dad there was one in every british tank... Boy did I look silly
I bought my dad tickets to the tank experience for his birthday a few years ago. Managed to get a cheap ticket for myself when another guest was a no show. I highly recommend it to anyone.
Jingles beard is great big bushy and Majestic AF, I also had an Enfield Jungle Carbine I inherited from my grandfather, it was unfortunately Sporterized, so worth very little, I sold it to a guy who was trying to get some parts to restore one that was in better condition.
The old sailor still knows how to clear the FN FAL. Been Canadian we called it the C2 and the Sten submachine gun was know C1. Fun fact the Canadian army still uses old Browning High Power as their service pistol today
If you're still in this neck of the woods, The Muckleburgh Military Collection is another great little museam on the North Norfolk Coast.
The drum magazines for Brens were intended for anti-aircraft use. The guns should have a taller AA sight attached in addition to an adapter that held the front end of the drum. The back of the drum has feed lips just like a normal box magazine that lock it in.
*'Lovely Rita, meter maid,
Nothing can come between us, When it gets dark I tow your heart (a tank) away*
*Standing by a parking meter, When I caught a glimpse of Rita, Filling in a ticket in her little white book,*
*In a cap she looked much older, And the bag across her shoulder, Made her look a little like a military man,*
*Lovely Rita, meter maid, May I inquire discreetly, When are you free to take some tea with me?'*
Last time I was so early the means of production were being seized.
I went to this museum once a very long time ago, when I must have been around 13 or 14.
I was with the owner of the museum inside of that Chieftain he has and I messed with the gun controls , the left and right was locked however the up and down wasn't and I almost hit the scimitar in front.
He wasn't too happy with me
Wat. Wat de Fubuki is that!
That is Rita?
Ah.
Oh.
Dat is one Classy Cruiser! And that Smile!
Lovely place. Godfather helps them out, drives their tanks and helps keep them running. Won an archery game a few years ago and got to go round the arena a couple of times in that saladin!
JINGLES, NOT HAPPY, this place is literally two minutes away from my work and my house. i keep meaning to go there and it would have been the perfect excuse to go if i knew you were
You know jingles the Indian army still uses the bren lmg so if you want to fire one you know where to go
They stopped using them in service in 2012.
@@tasman006 damn i didn't know that, by the way which weapon system replaced it?
I am not quite certain the Indians would allow an Englishman walk around India with a machinegun
@@harshdharaiya2976 probably the m249 or rpk. Those are both standard lmgs used all around the world
Wiki suggests an Minimi/M249 variant.
So happy to see the museum visits happening again.
I went here when I was younger, back then they had some kind of APC with a trailer hooked up and it would drive you around some fields. Was fun
The surface of Tatooine but with more cabbages... priceless.
Great to see you and Rita in Norfolk.
Next time (and there should be a next time), then The Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum and City of Norwich Aviation Museum should be on your itinerary (you can do both if you have a full day and somebody to drive you).
Come in the school holidays and I'll show you around myself (I work in a school, so can't choose when I have my time off). I also know a place in Norwich that does really, really good burgers.
TeaDaemon don’t forget the tank place at Weybourne too!
Hey Jingles that first Bren in the armoury was really a LMG a 7.62mm conversion of the Bren that was still in use in the nineties, you can tell by the strait magazine and the same flash eliminator as the SLR so it would have been used when you were in
Wait...Jingles vid on a SUNDAY!!! What kind of sorcery is this...ah hell it means double shifts in the salt mines all next week
Another nice video and a bonus one. Rita seems to get all the fun. I love it when you put up different stuff and add interesting details or commentary.
Hmm, well at Bovington a couple of years ago they did tours with 3 people in the chieftain with a guide, they indeed had a boiling vessel in it too.
I'd really recommend you go to the Boscombe down museum near Salisbury. Their main collection consists of cockpits of jet era aircraft cockpits and almost every cockpit can be climbed into.
This museum reminds me of the Imperial War Museum back in the 60's when I visited it. Most of the stuff on display was like this one, meaning I could get up close and personal to lots of stuff, and more like a warehouse too. I remember some Japanese, or maybe Italian hand grenades mounted on a wall with part of the description saying 'These were usually of more danger to the the thrower, than the enemy'......:)
I visited it again years later, and then not so much stuff on display, and what there was seemed to be behind glass cabinets, so not quite so interesting.
Also, I joined the RAF at 15 years old in Sept 61, as a Boy Entrant (now obsolete) and during the training on the range, I fired the LE .303 rifle, I think the MKI with the snub nose, a short go on a Bren gun......only in about 5 round bursts sadly.
Those spike bayonets we called them 'pig stickers, but also had the 6 inch (or so) bladed bayonet to mount on them.
Happy days.....
What a pair of gits!!!! I used to go there when I was a kid and lived in Northamptonshire. A long, long time ago. Good call jingles 😎
Hey Jingles my son had his birthday party here & your right the guy who runs the museum is so hands very friendly & i did mention you when i visited :)
After I finished up in the Canadian Infantry, I started off with the FNC1 and loved it. It is basically the same weapon. Not being able to buy one, I bought an Australian L1A1 and it is the same weapon. I have extra parts for it and love just taking it out its case and giving it a cleaning and a good wipe down with oil. Miss those good ole days :) They replaced that beautiful weapon with the C7... or our version of the M16. Hated it. Felt like a toy after using a real rifle for years.
Proud to have been there 4 times and live 10 miles away
God if only I could have that much fun riding in armoured vehicles anymore when it's your job it loses that flare
Thanks for this vid Jingles, one of these days I’ll have to get over there and visit the Tank museums you have. Just today I was in town visiting the museum, here in Brisbane we have the last A7V German tank in the world. She’s massive, photos don’t do justice!
[Sees title]
Which Norfolk, I wonder?
[Watches video]
Ah, the British one.
Neat stuff. If I ever make that trip to the UK I want to do sometime this definitely needs to be on the itinerary.
Hi Jingles and the ever lovely Rita.
you guys get to do some really cool stuff and this is something I would have given my right arm to partake in this day.
thanks for sharing this both of you.
Never got my Dad to Bovington (do not put off things people you do not know what will happen) he was ex-army served in the 11th Hussars and did every job in just about every MBT and recc vehicles the British Army at that time. We did get to go here and it was great but that may have been coloured by my Dad having multiple stories about nearly every vehicle and weapon :) . Could not agree more with Jingles well worth a visit.
Great video Jingles... loved the "various different" subject matter! Rita isn't hard to look at either.
Anyone else notice how much better armored look with Rita @ the commanders hatch?
My father was in the USAAF 8 th Air Force in Norfolk at Rackheath RAF Station 145 not too far from this museum. The 467th Bomb Group flew Consolidated B24 Liberators.
Just came here to see if this small museum was worth visiting. Now I have my answer - heading there next week! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Jingles Rita looks like she enjoyed it as well
Love both the surprise video and the Norfolk tank museum. I might be pinning this to things to do next next time I go to Europe.
on the other side of norfolk, theres the muckleburgh collection, an equally small and independent collection, worth checking it!
Not only Arties that looks like from ww1, they actually developed some light machine guns and gave them names that makes you think they were a ww1 design.
NOW THAT A MUSEUM I WILL ENJOY
Love these museum video's. Hope to see more in the future!
30 seconds in and already a mistake about the Cent AVRE having 163 mm instead of 165 mm calibre. Glad you never change :p
2:23 chieftain uses smoothbore guns now
And calling a Vickers K gun a Bren with drum magazine
@@blue2sco He is correct on that one though, the Bren also had a 100 round drum mag but it was mostly used in the AA role or on armoured vehicles
Or the howitzer that was said to have 150 Centimeters... That'd be 1,500 Millimeters wouldn't it?
@@jessegd6306 advanced german technology allowed rounds 10 times the interior diameter of the barrel to be fired XD
Man, I remember when my grandparents took me there a couple of years ago. We were the only people there, so we got to talk to one of the guys working there (He was a former greek presidential guard iirc).
BTW, another good tank museum you gotta got to is the Muckleburgh collection if you haven't already.
I’m a little disturbed that I get this on the top of my recommendations after I thought of an idea for this kind of museum yesterday
Correction Old Bean! at the 2:19 mark you said the cannon was the 120mm "Smooth-Bore". It is still the venerable 120MM "Rifled" cannon, though by all accounts the British will soon convert over to smooth-bore.
I love the hands on experience, makes it feel more real to me, even though it is anyway. He looked super happy to be able to handle the same kind of rifle he was trained with.
One thing I've noticed with British Museums is the lack of getting to actually go inside or hold anything, I've been to countless museums and castles but I had never noticed until I went to Spain on holiday. I went to the Castle above Ibiza Town I have never had so much fun holding so many weapons, trying on armour and they even had cannon balls you could pick up and it was just a lot more interesting that just being allowed to stare. It's great that Norfolk is providing the opportunity to actually get inside a tank, hopefully I'll find myself there one day.
It's because of the "Health and Safety" rules and that no-one controls their brats anymore. It's far easier to prevent everyone from touching things than to try and stop some little uncontrollable sprog or sprogette from sticking something into their own or someone elses bodyparts. Stops lawsuits and arguments with some useless parent whose snotty little brat is now bleeding all over the floor because it doesn't understand the words "NO", "DON'T TOUCH" and "LEAVE THAT ALONE".
It's not just health and safety, it's security and damage
Thanks for a sunday extra, looks like a nice place to go visit.
From the look on RIta's face, I think we know what Jingles could get her for her birthday/Christmas (whichever comes first). You can pick up a Saladin for about $43k USD.
Well looks like I’m adding this one to my itinerary when I finally get to visit England for the first time! Thank you Jingles!
Very nice, Jingles. Great to see an alternative to the usual museums that get featured. Nothing at all against those places, but it’s good to see what other places offer.
Y’all looked as happy as pigs in slop in that Saladin...
suprise sunday video.. thanks jingles
Wow, thanks for the video. Totally brought back all my memories as a Chieftain Gunner when you showed inside her.
I came to this museum about two years ago. Great stuff!!!
Just moved to the UK and im super stoked about all the amazing museums. Hoping to see you at a get to gether or event at some point along with MilitaryHistoryVisualized. He's a nice guy and did a podcast with him.
Didnt know this place was so close!
After that just head north to the coast for Sand, Sea, Ice Creams, Fish & Chips and More Tanks at the "Muckleburgh Collection"
Great video and I appreciated the new remote mic.
That's one noicy scout car, should be heard for miles around!
Thanks Jingles, very interesting, never have the chance to see things like this
I see you're putting the new Rode mics to good use ;-) Well Jingles if you're ever on holiday in Belgium and want to be able to climb in and out of tanks and get a guided tour, you should definitely pass by the Gunfire museum in Brasschaat we'll give you the 'which tank will fit test' :-)
My grandad used the mark 5 'Jungle Carbine' when he served in Malaya, in 1950. There's an equally respectable collection of rifles in the Bury St. Edmunds barracks, in Suffolk, but a distinct lack of tanks!
Glad you shared that with the world. Thanks
Your geeking out over the slr just like my dad does when he handles the old girl.
The air museum at doncaster has open cockpit days on bank holidays which given how insurers shit their shoes at the idea is great
"UHH, that's the way i like it" Rita at her best!
Glad to see you did it properly by checking to see if it is empty kudos to sir
I had no idea this museum existed and it's now on the list, so thanks for that Overlord Jingles!
I live in Virginia, US and I was thinking "There's no tank museum in Norfolk" but there is one in the original Norfolk
So no tank museum in the copycat Norfolk ;)
Will definitely go visit thanks jingles
Given Bovington is the other end of the country for me and this little gem is less than an hour away, I greatly appreciate the bonus video Mr Gnome Overlord sir. And for the price of only £8 admission I'm planning a visit shortly xD
When I was there in 1999 with my best friend he had found a group that I wonder if it was the predecessor of this group. They had a Chieftain, FV432 and an Abbot. The Chieftain had the turret locked and the top cut away and seats installed. It was giving rides at Tank Fest that year. I drove the FV432, loved it, Abbot, felt top heavy to me, and got in the driver's hole of the Chieftain but could not drive it. It was very hot that summer. So it was very dusty on the driving range. I took a picture of my best friend with his smile being the only thing showing in the dust.
Thank you for a bonus video on my birthday!
I just noticed a ring on Rita's left hand. Have I missed something?
Beautiful!! Next time I pop over to the UK I'll surely pay a visit to it!!!
Thanks for sharing!
great, time to add another museum to my list when I go to England
Jingles, you wimp! My school cadet corp (in the 1970s) had .22, Lee Enfield and Bren guns. (Yes, really!). I learnt to shoot on the LE, so when I got a chance to fire the FN it was absolute bliss. You only got real recoil on an LE!
My cadet unit also got to shoot the SLR, Charlie G sub cal as we paraded with our local TA and did exercises with them at weekends.
Jingles voice is soothing when sipping on a cup of tea in the morning just waking up lmao