Thank you for saving this amazing vehicle and for your help in preserving artefacts from Malta's proudest period in recent history. I am an Englishman but loved everything about living and working in Malta many years ago. I felt very much at home and found many of the older generation in particular more British than the British, particularly in their manners and precise speech, (while also fiercely proud of their independence.) Also the Maltese English accent is as distinctive as Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and South African and is easily my favourite.
Your wonderful Matador is a bit of a globetrotter although it seems getting the vehicle to Malta was a huge effort but well done in achieving this epic!
This restoration is amazing! Did all Matadors have a pale green cab interior or just vehicles in Malta camouflage? I'm a modeller but I'm not too well-versed on paint schemes as I'd like to be.
I think that all British equipment was finished in the standard 'kahki drab' then camouflage colours were applied according to the 'theatre' the equipment would operate in.
Very nice video. Hello from Washington state, U.S.A. I would think that those screens would also be used to prevent hand grenades from being thrown into the bed while the truck was rolling. What do You think?
It's a lorry in English. One of the best ever. Pull, carry and go anywhere. My dad used them in the army 70 years ago and the Matador was his favourite. It pulled a 3.7" anti aircraft gun and carried the gunners, ammunition, tents, food and water and everything else. A second Matador followed carrying more supplies and men and it also towed a large trailer mounted radar. Other types were built such as fuel tankers, mobile workshops and even some six wheeled variants. After military service they were sold off, most ended up as forestry winch tractors or breakdown recovery vehicles. Out of about 10,000 built only a few hundred remain. This Maltese example is a credit to the owner, I wish it was mine!
Excellent video 😊
Thanks for saving and showing us the truck😊😊
Thank you😮😮
The camouflage on those vehicles is sheer genius. 😎
Thank you for a bit of a history lesson about Malta and the truck
They are a great truck 👍👍🇦🇺
Thank you for saving this amazing vehicle and for your help in preserving artefacts from Malta's proudest period in recent history. I am an Englishman but loved everything about living and working in Malta many years ago. I felt very much at home and found many of the older generation in particular more British than the British, particularly in their manners and precise speech, (while also fiercely proud of their independence.) Also the Maltese English accent is as distinctive as Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and South African and is easily my favourite.
Very nice work, thank you.
Love the Matador...a great British truck and all rounder.
Your wonderful Matador is a bit of a globetrotter although it seems getting the vehicle to Malta was a huge effort but well done in achieving this epic!
Great video and great work restoring and saving this Matador!
Excellent video.
Excellent.
I will be recommending and subscribing to your channel.
And big shout out to Battlefront Malta Volunteers !!!!!
Lovely to see you have named it for Sgt. Godwin! Prosit!
Magnificent to see the supply line getting attention.
this guy has such a nice accent
also that camo is really nice
Lord Muck (TH-cam) channel. He often has a guy on his channel that rebuilds Matadors, he might be able to help with parts.
This restoration is amazing! Did all Matadors have a pale green cab interior or just vehicles in Malta camouflage? I'm a modeller but I'm not too well-versed on paint schemes as I'd like to be.
I think that all British equipment was finished in the standard 'kahki drab' then camouflage colours were applied according to the 'theatre' the equipment would operate in.
Very nice video. Hello from Washington state, U.S.A. I would think that those screens would also be used to prevent hand grenades from being thrown into the bed while the truck was rolling. What do You think?
Maybe the stone camo was used at the start of the war and changed to the rubble pattern later in the war, after the bombings.
Any research done on history of the Vickers Light Tanks used in Malta, particularly MK Vic
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Would be nice to see the engine!
AEC 7.7 litre 6 cylinder diesel, exactly the same engine as used in the London buses.
@@philhawley1219 Thanks!
0:28 " its pulling vehicle not a truck" one minute later 1:30 "we also have seen a kind of universal use of the TRUCK"
So is it truck or not
It's a lorry in English. One of the best ever. Pull, carry and go anywhere. My dad used them in the army 70 years ago and the Matador was his favourite.
It pulled a 3.7" anti aircraft gun and carried the gunners, ammunition, tents, food and water and everything else. A second Matador followed carrying more supplies and men and it also towed a large trailer mounted radar.
Other types were built such as fuel tankers, mobile workshops and even some six wheeled variants.
After military service they were sold off, most ended up as forestry winch tractors or breakdown recovery vehicles. Out of about 10,000 built only a few hundred remain. This Maltese example is a credit to the owner, I wish it was mine!