Hello everybody,
Today we take a look at Armourfest, that Lawrie visited a few weeks ago.
Featuring tanks, demonstrations and displays, this was a super day out.
For more information check out their website here: http://norfolktankmuseum.co.uk/
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Tug of war?
It was parked in the wrong place and the two crews had a "debate" over who would remove it……
go see mr hewes he will give you a go if you ask him nicely.
looking forward to meeting you tomorrow I’m not spoiling it for other viewers
does this mean that Lawrie might go to tankfest at some point? 👀
I think your point about these "instruments of destruction " becoming engineering marvels that now bring joy is very well put. Have you been the The Tank Museum in Dorset?
2:06 thats a Britsh SAS jeep like the ones used during the Raid on Sidi Haneish Airfield
Love This 👍. Keep it up
Great video. I too would find this event interesting to go to, i have been to the tank museum and a few independent smaller military vehicle museums in the past and have always found the history of these types of vehicle so interesting.
We are crying out for an LMM / Mr Hewes YouTube collaboration
Hey Lawrie I’ve a 4×2 goddess you can drive if you like when I put the new engine in? And if you fancy I can get my 4×4 goddess out and you can compare them?
My dad was a tracked vehicle mechanic with the 4th Armored Division in France.
He spoke highly of the Sherman but not so much for the halftracks.
It was a treat to hear the engine on the Sherman and wonder about its history and unit.
Dad got shelled somewhere between Nancy and Metz and was shipped home in a coma. He was the only survivor of his crew, and due to a mixup in dogtags, he was listed as KIA.
The mixup wasn't known until some time later, over a year, that he regained contiousness.
Thanks for taking us along!
Cheers
Terry
Sound's like the chap with the Sultan likes his Jag unsilenced……
……Good boy!😂
Ah the love and hate of service vehicles. The best thing I have ever been involved in or caused………… Was putting a minibus in a storm drain in Norway in January 2004. The long wheelbase Landy just slid all over the road and did nowt. The BV 206 did it's best and just slid all over the road. Then the boys said we'll call 'Taff' ….. A MANN Armoured recovery vehicle turned up….. HUGE! The guy jumped out 'Tiny' compared to the behemoth. That was the only thing that got us.. sorry me the driver out of the storm drain. So much fun, so many vehicles, so many people, all of them, the best you'd ever meet and so many unbelievable stories. I miss all those blokes and those happy days.
Love the CUCV M1009
Nice one Laurie, I almost went this year, looks like I missed out but you should see if you can do some sort of co-op with Mr Hewes on his channel. As long as there were trains, there were trains with military paint and guns! 👊
At 1:36 is that Jack from the Mr. Hewes channel?
So…. When you buying a tank, mate? 😂😂
I didn't know there was a second tank museum in Norfolk… wow.
Great video allways like your presentation 10 out 10😊
Lovely seeing the RL doing tame cross country, I did my cross country training in one of these and I can’t assure you the terrain we did it on was far more rugged. When watching from the back while another driver was doing his bit it was amazing to see the twist between the cab and load area. The windows needed to be open so they wouldn’t break
I think you’ll find the Champ was beaten by Land Rover and not jeep.
too expensive to run for too long? at Operation Market Harborough they had 6 (and a t72 because why not) drag racing. everyone's saying collab with Joe Hewes but even if you don't I'd definitely check out one of the events he takes his machines to. i have a feeling you'd like the Foden
You say no tracked vehicles, that include ones with rubber tracks?
The firetender that Lawrie liked but did not know what it was is a Alvis Salamander, based on the same chassis as the Alvis Stalwart, Saracen, and Saladin. 🤓
We had Centurions and Chieftains in Denmark
NTM is a great place to visit especially when Armorfest is on. On the day after the event I had the great privilege of being driven down the length of the site by my son in the Chieftain tank and then being part of the three man crew to drive Deborah II down and into the museum, EPIC !!!
i would of loved of watched a AEC Matador eating up that terrain course my favourite truck of ww2. i absolutely love them and remember the time that they were still being used as recovery trucks in the 1980s I remember one towing our peugeot 504 estate and i got to sit in the cab as a child
Contact Mr Hews and see if he'll let you colab with him for a video if you like main battle tanks
The Bedford lorry whìth the open windscreen is the one i drove in the lybian desert. It was good to open the windows to the air in.
Fanatic video! Best I’ve seen if armourfest! Drop me a message we’ll take some vehicles for a spin if you fancy it! 🙂
I’ve had a ex Mod Land Rover 110 it wasn’t fast
fun fact: the mark 1 tanks were tested secretly not too far from this site just over the border in Suffolk in Elvedon, totally different with the sandy soil of the brecks compared to france.
The Austin Champ was NOT a take off from the Jeep. It was the mobile platform of an artillery system that the Gunners decided they did not need. So you had the Champ and a production contract! It was useless in that you could transport four people or two people and kit. The vehicle was very solid and heavily built to allow for the artillery piece to be fired from the back.
My son and I went on the second day – looks like there was barely anyone there compared to when we went – for us the bank was rammed full. The sherman broke down and an angry farmer dumped a load of cow muck by the side of the track. The chieftan and mock battle were excellent, we were covered in dust and diesel by the end! The first world war tanks were great, and the Gulf war static display was good too.
The modern one looked like a man/rmmv hx truck. The older kat 1 are more fun and more off-road
Vf4005!!
The FV180 CET (Combat Engineer Tractor) has the bucket to the rear. That way there is more power provided by the powertrain for digging operations. The winch was mainly used in conjunction with a RPA ( Rocket Propelled Anchor) in self recovery tasks. The RPA could be fired using 1 or 2 rockets out to approx 4590m, was self righting and helped exiting the water during river crossings if the bankexit was difficult.
Great video, I’ve never been to the Norfolk tank museum, must give it a look. How does the museum compare to the Muckleborough collection when they haven’t got a show on like this?
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