Curator Q&A #10: Tank Engines | The Tank Museum
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- In his latest Q&A, Curator David Willey talks tank engines, tank breakdowns, discarding sabot rounds, archive photos, tank compasses and tanks in Korea! tankmuseumshop.org/collection... SUBSCRIBE to The Tank Museum TH-cam channel: ► / @thetankmuseum
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I know Finn doesn't add much pertinent content to these videos, but he's become a lovable mascot of sorts whose absence is now not to be tolerated. He's a bit like David Fletcher's mustache in that respect.
Agreed
Whoever said that Finn doesn’t belong in videos is just plain wrong... I enjoy the tank content and Finn is a nice bonus! He’s such a good dog!
The proof, if any were needed, that we must always be on our guard and be alert that feckwittery is all around us
I actually saw somebody commenting that he wanted the The Director at home talks to stop, the madlad!
The Director at Home is the gem of this lockdown and I hope Mr. Smith will continue to show up in the Tank Museum content.
Tuning3434 yes, I saw that too. The Director does have a mischievous sense of humour that I suspect goes over a lot of people’s heads, so I can imagine some folk misunderstanding him and getting upset. I think he’s a great storyteller.
@@terrysaunders214 Douchebaggery is rampant.
VonFrag Esq yes indeed
Finn needs to be there. Screw the haters!
Never mind the fun-murderers, bring back Finn!!
Actually Finn is the positive addition, as he tends to cut Willey short when he start rambling. When Willey goes on and on and on into still more divergent tangents Finn loses patience and wants to be entertained!
@@thomasborgsmidt9801 I love the Tangents but also Finn. We need an auto-ball chucker (Disguised as a Model Tiger 1) for Finn, & then we could have a Charity for the Tank Museum Marathon!
stuff the haters, bring back Flynn and his tennis ball
Most of the time it is raining
Haters?
Hold my Beer!
How dare someone try and split up "Tintin" and "Snowy"
Even as a card carrying cat person, free Finn!
I took my son to see that Rosslyn Chapel. He loved the place but a special place was for the cat called William. who had adopted the chapel. My son said, would only happen in Britain.
Anyone who thinks a doggo wandering around is a bad idea clearly has no heart.
Why do people these days say doggo instead of dog?
@@JohnyG29 it's like the Aussies who put ee behind a number of things. It's a part of the evolution of the English language. For example Firee for fireman
@@JohnyG29 ¿Y por qué no los llaman perros como se supone que deben hacerlo?
They can bugger off, we need Finn!
Agreed! I'm actually a cat person, but yeah, please don't feel that such a handsome pup is not welcome.
Bring back Finn and banish that miserable sod!
wakenbaker-uk I don’t understand the connection.
This "at home" series has quickly become my favourite TH-cam content. Hope it continues after the Tank Museum opens!!
"I was younger and needed the money." Ha, well played.
Hi, Andrew! Yep. Sad to think that a lot of people will be scratching their heads and moaning: "But... but the question was about modelling tanks out of plastic, or maybe 3-D printing, or CNC programming for accurate replica components... I don't get it..."
No, they don't get it. And perhaps that's just as well. The important thing about drollery and a dry sense of humour is that you should never, ever explain yourself.
Straight face, straight bat, snicked off the edge through extra cover for four runs. Well played, indeed! ;-)
I am here for the tank Q&A, but also Finn. ;-)
Please, don´t let the killjoy rule, bring back Finn!!! He is such a lovely dog and brings joy and down to earth activity's as a bonus. To see your interactions is just part of the experience, whilst viewing your different presentations.
Why do I suspect that Finn has clocked up more miles in David's WWII Armoured Car, than many of us combined?
Finn was the greatest assistant for you Mr. Willie. Nice addition. At the start of the lockdown my wife started watching the videos with me because of Finn. Now she knows the Meteor engine, the Mark IV tank, and the armament of PZ III better than me. She always said tanks are dull, now she and I are debating about cupolas, sights, shell types, suspension. So thank you Finn, you've just made my wife a great tank fan!
Nice👍
Stoked for you
My father told me about seeing Hobart's funnies, the flail and roller, when he was at Normandy. In the mid to late 1970s I was with the US Army Engineers working on mine rollers and mine plows for the XM1 tanks. At a puzzle palace meeting, a tanker General declared that we will not be putting those ugly things on our beautiful new tanks.
Thirteen years later, upon looking out on sadam insane's mine fields, the tankers panicked. What were we Engineers going to do to protect the tanks? It was pointed out to them that they had killed our program and that we had the British Viper which was slow to use. We resurrected the prototypes from the Armor Engineer Board Yard and had more made under emergency contracts. I retired in 2002 and have not kept up with the newer technologies. I have noticed that rollers of various types still seem to be around.
Don't trust people that don't like dogs. Bring back Finn!
The Internet wants to know the location and the names of the idiots how complained about Finn. I think most of us like the suprise visits from Finn and him wondering around in the backround.
Timestamps:
01:38 Tank Engines
15:36 German tanks breaking down
18:15 Tank socks
19:25 APDS appearance
23:42 Historic photo archive
31:21 Paint
33:24 David Willey as a model
33:48 Compasses in tanks
36:25 Comet in Korea
38:02 Other countries versions of Hobarts Funnies
39:33 Hesh rounds for 95mm Howitzer
40:51 Matilda II manual
41:59 Blanket over Comet mantlet and big tool on side of Valentine
43:39 Besa machine gun (why 3 different machine guns)
46:19 Disruptive pattern material
47:38 Guitar riff at start of videos
47:54 Crusader III at El Alamein and elsewhere
49:44 Amazing Tank Museum merchandise
How can you be offended by Flynn, this is not a University lecture MORE Flynn please !!
#MoreFlynnPlease
My large dog spent two weeks in seminars at a university with no problems at all. Hardly anyone noticed.
University would be better off with Flynn.
@Skodaman2 She :)
@Skodaman2 ..either you're funnily sarcastic in-need of a sarcasm/humour emote,
..or a you're a Sun/Mirror/Mail/FauxNews Ectrmeist echo-chamber troll.
another brilliant video. But bring back Finn. Free the Finn!!
I hope that even when the tank museum opens that these kinds of vides can still be made. I understand that it wont be nearly as often but its a fantastic wee series
Finn is a super star! I love seeing Finn in the videos. He's such a gentleman. Please bring Finn back.
Bring back Finn, bring back Finn, bring back Finn...
Finn is an absolutely wonderful looking dog and has become an integral part of these chats, please bring back Finn!
It's " The Curator at Home", which means, messy bookshelves, tea, lunch, and the dog, or whatever else might be there. I think most people enjoy the fact that you are bringing all of us into your home & garden ( or the beach ), it's like we are just hanging out together.
I look forward to these little chats - in whatever setting or form you choose to present them in.
Thanks David.
Question for next time: Were only the British using tanks in WW1, or did their allies get use of them as well? Specifically the Canadians, was there any sort of separate regiment within the Canadian Corps that had tanks?
Aw come on, let Finn come back ! I expect to see Finn next week !! Also great beach and fishing site.
Bring back Doggo of the Tank! It's his home as well,
Finn is a part of the Curator at Home. I hope we see him in the next video.
Will you be continuing these Q&As after the museum is open again? Perhaps less frequently and with a rotating cast? I assume he will be much to busy to keep up this pace alone?
Really great content... Bring back Finn
Harry Ricardo is one of the largely unknown engineering geniuses of the 20th century. The Automotive research company he founded at the end of WW 1 is still in business and provides services to companies around the world.
I miss Finn, he makes for quite the mascot. (I saw, in an encyclopedia of World War II back in the 1970's, a picture of a French tankette crew with a kitten mascot. It would be a challenge, but do you think you could find that image?) QUESTION: Tank crews' mascots, what do we know of them?
My thanks to all of you keeping the Tank Museum going through this lockdown, including the women processing the on-line orders.
DOGGO or I will have to withdraw the tea rations! PERMANENTLY.
Finn the Dog apparently needs his own channel. Haha. Keep it up, David. great talk.
Excellent Q&A as usual MR Willey and hope they still continue after the virus is over. Also a big shout out to FIN. So please bring him back. WE WANT THE FIN!!!!
I've learnt so much from these Q&As
I think my favorite thing about this channel is the willingness to point out when history is unsure or generally accepted "facts" are incorrect, with things being muddled over time.
Fin adds to the video's quality for me.🐶
It's not a Curator's Q+A without Fin the Dog
Finn lives! Bring im back! Seriously though, to-date, he has not impacted my enjoyment and understanding of the information herein. In fact, he provides a nice change of pace and prevents the video from being too formulaic. Also he's just the cutest good boy.
Finn is a great character player supporting the prime player, Curator David Willey, Finn does a great job, besides being a brilliant Boarder Collie.
Great tank talk, didn't know about Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo tank engines, what a great man he was.
The modelling bit made my day! Perfect! :D
And yes, Finn should be part of this! :)
Bring back Finn please!
the best part about these videos it's the casual atmosphere of you talking while Finn is goofing off it makes the videos seem so much more natural and less serious like this is a passion and not a lecture
When I saw the title Tank Engines, I thought of Thomas!
On a serious note seeing a load of armoured vehicles on a train is very impressive, and got me thinking on how hard it must be to move tanks between different locations.
bring back finn >:(
bring back Finn or else!
Please bring back Finn, he is now one of the Tank Museums much loved characters.
hours Q&A incl engines, I hit "Like" before the adverts had finished!
Lovely to see Finn on the beach - thank you😀
Finn is as much a star performer as you Mr Curator , great content I’ve been to the museum many many times over the years ......
I remember coming across a 'tank crossing' sign driving around in Wiltshire. There was the sign, a gap in the hedge running along the road and a torn up path leading into the distance, giving credence to the warning. That was pretty surprising for a Michigan boy. Not the sort of hazard I'm accustomed to.
Who doesn't love Finn?!?
I could listen to these chats all Day. If I get stressed, your voice is very soothing. Thank You
For Preservation of your photographs contact your local history centre and they’ll gladly recommend what to do and how to preserve it. By the way a local stationer selling ‘archive boxes’ aren’t proper museum archival quality boxes. If you’re in the U.K. the companies to look out for Preservation Equipment Ltd or Secol.
How did I just know that most of the comments here would be about Finn? lol
Don't mess with David Willey. Don't mess with David Willey. ;-)
Speaking of other museums - there's a museum about an hour or two on the train from Bovington called the Solent Air Museum in Southampton that is well worth a look. We were allowed up into the cockpit of the big flying boat in the middle of the museum when we visited the place a few years back. During the same trip we went to the Imperial War Museum in London where they had a Spitfire's Merlin engine all polished and shiny in a glass box. The same engine is in the Solent Air Museum except it was just pulled out of a plane and put on a stand, it smells of petrol and steel and not for show at all. Thought it was quite the contrast to the one in the Imperial War Museum.
Bring back Finn. David, you are the boss of the tank museum - you're literally one of the most luckiest people in the world. Don't let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do. Love the Q&As. They are so interesting. Please Stay safe.
Finn is part of the double act,two Ronnie's etc😄
Sir, I believe that Finn has earned his place at the tank museum and you should consider him to have a permanent and honored place in your retinue. I am making a small donation to the museum in Finn's honor and to show you that the Finn Fans are a serious group and should be respected.
Finn is a character on these homely chats. Keep on Finn. These chats are great, hope we'll get these Q&A chats in the future. They're great. Thanks David.
Thank you for the answers David. Thank you for making these videos.
I really enjoy this chats, keep them coming, and bring back Finn and dump the Finn hater, cheers
As the bard said - Cry “ball” and unleash the dog of war. As a tank fanatic for the last 45 years these videos are an absolute joy. Finn doesn’t detract in the slightest and is a fun and thoroughly likeable element so please bring him back!
I like to see Flynn/Finn. I want to see more of him.
@10.46 The plume of smoke can give you away...as sometimes happenened with Chieftain....lol...Always happenened with Chieftain, even worse in Winter, thank you L60.
Having Finn around makes it more homely, more immediate and personal. It is like being a guest in David's garden.
'I would say that, I'm the curator of The Tank Museum' - Precisely!
Doggo did nothin wrong!
Excellent news looking forward to the Matilda 2. Also please bring back Finn and keep the videos coming, I always look forward to these from yourself Mr Willey and all of the team. Well done good work 👍
But this is a Finn stabilised video, free the Finn 1!
Would there be any chance of you giving us your opinion on which 5(?) books every AFV enthusiast ought to have on their bookshelf?
I confess to spending most of your excellent presentations squinting over your shoulder at your book collection.
As a side note and with regard to the lack of a suitable tank engine in the UK in the thirties in time for re-armament, did nobody think to investigate the possibility of converting/adapting the large numbers of RR Kestrel engines that were just then becoming obsolete for aircraft use as the RR Merlin came into service or do you think the inter services rivalry between the RAF and army may have seen that theory off?
Your reference to the "Tank crossing"-T-shirt for your significant other.....
Once in a pub I encountered four hefty welsh ladies.
I asked: "Wherefrom i Scotland do You ladies hail?"
Answer: "Wales, Wales, Wales, Wales."
Me: "Sorry, my mistake! Where in Scotland do You Whales come from?"
I much later regained consciousness in the intensive care unit heavily plastered up......
@@TheTutch Probably more along the lines of overthinking. In medieval litterature, as in "Morte de Arthur" Wales was spelled Gales, as in Gaul. or gaelic.
No, it was more like me not thinking on my feet and then spending some time in a cast.
About Harry Ricardo, the tank engine was his first big break. Ricardo is still around and designed the V8 for the McLaren road cars.
David Willey is actually hilarious! Sometimes I don't even think he means to be, but he frequently has me in stitches with his bone dry wit :D
I hadn't seen the 'at home' series until this, tonight. Whenever I go to someone's house, I enjoy exploring their shelves for interesting books and music. Your shelves look wonderfully interesting.
Thanks David.
Regarding digitising photographs:
1. scan them at a higher resolution than is needed just for printing - 600 dpi or better.
2. once scanned - BACK THEM UP.
3. name the file so it means something.
I suppose the Finn hater is the same person who down thumbed this video :p Bring back Finn!
For the modeling. Tank trunks, the barrel placement is self evident.
Get the dog back.
Idea for a future question and answer... or topic indeed. How was the armour plate specification arrived at and then tested before being used in a tank, prior to and including WWII? The format for these Q&A and the talks is beautifully low key, allowing for plenty of room for depth to emerge and to also go off on the odd marvellous tangent. It just works.
I like the rambling bookshelves myself, relaxing, ^oo^
Just wanted to say thanks for offering some cheaper postage from the store, it allowed me to buy a couple of books and of course socks!
Just got my order of books, many thanks to you all at the museum store, great job.
I cannot recommend using the store enough, fine products, packing and shipping was excellent, and I was even contacted with a refund from the estimated shipping cost as they managed to pack in cheaper than expected.
Postage is still pricey, but shipping books from England to Canada isn't going to be cheap for anyone.
Shipping was fast and professional.
Fine job, folks, top notch service.
Thanks again.
Thank you David for answering my question! Loved it!
Your dog is one of the high points of these videos, whoever doesn't like the dog really needs to crawl back under their rock and practice hating even more than they already do.
Well someone else in the comments thinks that other person in the comments should shut it about Finn being in the videos. Good boyz are welcome in any video about anything.
33:23 - lol I suspect the question may have related to Model Tanks
Looked like a great day for it, it was 2 degrees here this morning lol. And do me a favour, no Finn?, he takes up two seconds of the videos. He's a handsome boy.
Really like these lectures and the way you present them. These are a great advert for the Tank Museum.Thankyou. Continue these even after the museum reopens, if you can.
What a delightful 'rabbit hole ' u just sent me through mr. Curator. Always a treat. Must schuffle to Bovington from Denmark as soon as possible.
Regards from DK.
Doesn't want Finn? Barking mad!
I refuse to watch unless Finn is present 😂
I volunteer whoever did not like Finn in the videos to lead a cavalry charge. "Kiss the Cannonball". Hope you got a jolly good saddle!
A good day of fishing is still a journey. I love walking down a river casting. And Finn is a great sidekick!
I thought I saw video in the 1999 three part documentary, "The Korean War: Fire and Ice", where I saw a Comet driving through a city. Only on screen a few seconds, but it did not look like a Cromwell to me.
Great work! Thank you for still putting out amazing content in these new times
Let the session begin! Class is in session once David has clapped 😂👍🏻👏🏻
"Acid free is key" It truly is 100% of my maternal great-grandad's -RMC- second world war memorabilia, from photos to firearms (properly registered in the States, where moved post war), is catalogued and properly archived or displayed. My siblings and I have determined the firearms will stay in the States (where I live) in private hands. My 14 year old has been mad for history since age four, he's the only one with true interest, all of my portion goes to him. Hopefully quite a ways in future!
Very interesting and informative! Great talk!
Finn needs an I love tanks collar.