Tank Chats #60 Valentine Bridgelayer | The Tank Museum
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Tank Chats playlist • Tank Chats from The Ta... The Valentine Bridgelayer, on a Valentine Mark I hull, was developed in 1943 during the Second World War. They were largely superseded by Churchill Bridgelayer, although some Valentine Bridgelayers were used in north-west Europe from 1944 to 1945, because the supply of Churchill Bridgelayers could not meet demand.
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Logistical vehicles. The true heroes but always overlooked.
I want a KMW Kodiak in my garage for whenever the weather and/or roads where I intend to go is too bad for my I30 diesel car ;)
This is engineering not logistical
These vehicle are used by close support Royal Engineers .
I could listen to David talk about nothing in particular for hours, he just has that grandfatherly aspect to him that just puts you at ease.
Amen, he could read out his shopping list and you know it would be educational and have some amusing anecdotes thrown in there along with a nice serving of snark.
phone book
@@ulrichkalber9039 Phone book would be great, largely because he would inevitably take a moment to make fun of the names or business ads as he went.
Maybe a public reading of a phone book could generate some money for a good cause...
Check out The_Chieftain's channel, Operation Think Tank.
Best part about working nights in the States. All my quirky British UA-camrs post during my lunch break.
David Fletcher is the perfect human being. I want to go to a pub with him and talk about tanks over a pint.
So do I!
I'd join in too
Emperor_Xenolius I want a miniature one to put in my shirt pocket.
As long as he keeps talking, I'd keep buying drinks until I ran out of money or one of us fell from our chair.
In my mind Irving Finkel and David Fletcher are the two finalists in that competition and i would be fine with either of them winning.
'I won't go into detail about the Valentine tank as we've done that before...'
Please do, the Valentine's contribution is so often overlooked. The most produced British tank ever, and the only western tank the Soviets really liked.
Soviets digged the Sherman too
@@r3cker They just wouldn't admit to it during the cold war.
Cue David flailing his arms round looking silly for the next out take please.
Sir David Fletcher is the Papa Smurf of tanks. That's how cool he is.
He demands that the armor be three apples thick, and only one out of a hundred of the Mark I thru IVs be female.
Well, the Valentine is an amazing tank that the British used, especially the Archer. 76mm 17lb gun? The firepower of a Sherman Firefly, but the way it was always facing backwards made it a lot less useful in CQB. Awesome video!
My father drove one of these during the war, from D-Day until the end of the war, in western Europe in the 7th Armoured Division. I would love to hear of anyone who's relative did the same.
Its a well knowen fact, that these were also used to squash enemy tanks.
Or annoying Officers and Senior NCOs
@DroehnIng I think you just did ...
@DroehnIng r/woooooosh
@DroehnIng wow grumpy pants here.
Get me closer driver I want to hit them with my bridge!
Perfect Saturday morning breakfast telly!
David Fletcher on a Saturday morning... Sweet!
Can I say I love this videos. The family will be visting the museum ASAP due to this.
Thank you David and crew for the continued expatiation of the tank lover knowledge base. Can't wait for the next installment.
Any chance you can get David to do a 1 hour chat on something?.... Anything will do.
Search Operation Think Tank on youtube. It was a panel with mr Fletcher and some other historians. He explains among other things his love of the two wheel tank trailer.
Yes. My only complaint of tank chats is they're too short. I could listen to him ramble on all day.
Maybe we could get him on Top Gear...
Love your work guys
2 crews, a commander and the driver.
Life must have been hell in these tanks on deciding who is going to make the tea.
Threaded rod - no hydraulic fluid spraying all over the place instead of doing it's job. I love it. I can think of half a dozen places where threaded rod should probably be used in machinery right now.
Doubt it will happen, "not invented here syndrome" stops a lot of common sense solutions.
Thanks.
Fantastic video guys! Always a pleasure to get a notification showing you all have a new video. Hope to visit the tank museum in bovington Someday and get a couple of autographs from You two
These also saw service with the KNIL during the Indonesia Independence War. They were mostly used in combination with several kinds of armored cars and Stuart light tanks
British ingenuity, a fine thing.
I love this man.
Superb, from Mr Fletcher yet again.
David Fletcher. I salute you, sir.
Best part of driving ABLV's is that you are the fastest tank, once you've laid the bridge
OK, which one of you has the shakes, and clicked the thumbs down when you meant to click the thumbs up? Be honest.
it was the hydraulics guy who is still bitter over the threaded rod system.
Love the thumbnail!
Sat at work, this made my day.
the scissors bridge was so powerful that it was used to cut pillboxes open
Thank you .
David Fletcher is the one with authority to change the name of the scissor bridge if he wants to, hahaha. Good video as always.
Screw thread actuators are used in aircraft as well because they are extremely strong and can generate a huge force. A gearbox can have a reduction ratio of in excess of 200 to 1 (1000 to 1 is possible without breaking a sweat) and locks by using a work gear. So if you have a motor capable of 5 pound feet of torque you can pull 1000 pounds+ with it. With the higher gearing a tiddly 5 pound foot motor would pull 2.5 tonnes or there abouts.
Upvote first, then watch.
Well earned trust
Excellent, good video.
The legend is back
Since the valentine is an infantry tank, I don’t even want to think how fast that thing goes with the huge hunk of material on top of it.
Like some sort of tower defense "Slow tank" stereotype unit.
He does say in the video it could do the Valentine's full normal speed.
@@DIEGhostfish which is basically "at a leisurly pace"
It does not have a turret. I wouldn't be surprised if the turret weighed more than the bridge, because of all the armor.
15mph to 20mph - he says so in the video.
David Fletcher is the Sir Martyn Poliakoff of tanks.
Old professor poli is awesome. And his hair is pure electrons
There's a collab...
@@twirlipofthemists3201 them two old taters would be awesome .
@@twirlipofthemists3201 maybe do an episode on old guys in England doing youtube channel stuffs .
Mr. Fletcher states it was a 2 inch threaded rod (at 2:05). Look at the pictures, that drive rod is a lot thicker than 2 inches.
And so is Mr. Fletcher's, I presume.
Another fab vidgeo by the one true master of tank n tache.
Didnt know there was a valentine bridge layer, thought it was just the churchill
The British were all over the place with tank variants, there were like 3 different Churchill variants that could lay bridges (one of them being a bridge) and 2 Crusader/Covenanter variants
you got to do one on the Ram 2
David Fletcher, living legend.
Does Mr Willey pehaps have a top 5 in the collection?
There's a Fletcher top 5 but not Wiley yet.
Why do I feel like the mod today. Hey Tank Chats, need a mod? :-)
@@princeofcupspoc9073 I know that dude, that's why I suggested Mr Willey.
For some reason imagining a Sherman with a ton of improvised armor cracking one of these things.
#teamfletcher
Welded aluminium was very advanced for those days, what type of welding procedure was used? Gas and stick welding required very corrosive flux and it was very hard to ensure all flux was removed so it is unusual for weldments of that time to survive very long. TIG welding known as Heliarc was still in the experimental stages and just being introduced in the US. BOC did not introduce their version of TIG which they called Argonaut until after the war.
My father tried to weld a wheel back on an aluminium cart when I was a kid. Did not go well. :-) From google:
Tig welding was invented during world war 2.
Mig welding was invented during the 1950's.
I am not sure when the first aluminum stick rods were produced, but I think it was after ww2.
@@princeofcupspoc9073 Yes TIG or rather Heliarc as it was called back then was invented by the Linde corporation as part of the Manhattan project. It used Helium as a shielding gas hence the name, the US had a ban on Helium exports and as the US oil wells were just about the only source back then I would not think it was used for welding those bridges here in the UK. I have a collection of books which are bound copies of Metal progress published by The American Society For Metals. They cover the period from 1944 to 1949 and one of the has an add for the Heliarc welding process, there is also articles on welding armour and tank building as well as a lot of information on the Manhattan project and Uranium some of which was classified soon after the war but freely talked about in publications like these during the war.
I think David maybe got his wires crossed and is thinking of a different bridgelayer? The 30' bridges on the Covenanter bridgelayers in Australia at the NSW Lancer's museum, and the Army tank museum both show rust where the paint has gone, so they're definitely steel, the Lancer's one has rusted through in places. I doubt aluminium would be diverted during war time from aircraft production to build bridges for tanks.
@@bettongmi4340 You could well be right on that, I was looking through the books I mentioned last night and found an article on recycling aluminium and seems that it was not really possible back then. The US navy tried experimenting with aluminium recycling from aircraft and found too much contamination and impurities for any practical use other than the lowest grade castings so even re used aluminium is unlikely to have been used for bridges. War time metallurgy is really interesting, what with various shortages of materials and the need for unifying alloys (before the war every steel manufacturer had their own "secret" alloys) The US nearly ran out of Tin as the main source was the Malay peninsular which was in Japanese hands.
David should try starting a new religion. Put an altar in the museum and get him to preach about tanks for an hour once a week, think he'd get a good congregation going. Me for a start
where the brits the only one who used "brigdelayer-tanks"? i didnt even know they excisted already in ww2.
The German had a panzer iv in the beginning of the war but it didn't worked very well so it was abond again
This vehicle wasn't under the 79:th Armoured Division?
Please make Tank Santa do a special episode and post it on Christmas Eve!!!!
It's possible that they made the bridges foldable so they'd fit onto transport ships and landing craft more efficiently.
It did make it easier to transport but its main reason was to enable a long bridge to be carried and laid easily, the Churchill AVLB carried a one piece bridge that overhung at front and rear but it could not span as wide a gap.
Easier to fold a 20m bridge in half to drive with than try and drive around with a bridge twice the length of the tank hanging over, with the driver trying to judge where the ends are, what they might hit at the front and back as they turn/slew.
Is this video still part of the Hobart Funnies series or just one of the more specialized Fighting Vehicles?
The Funnies include the Churchill ARK bridge layer, but this was a different project.
@@princeofcupspoc9073 The Churchill Ark was not a Bridge layer, it was more a mobile "Bridge" as it drove into the gap and over vehicles or troops crossed over using it.
The Italian Carro Armato L3 Bridge Layer is the better option! (not laughed so much as when i say a video of one - a tiny tankette with a Bridge it is just too funny)
and there is the commander who tells you what to do
💪🎾
Threaded rod on treads.
Sweeeet!
Threaded rod
The start of the video is a bit confusing...
Sir David to me
If an enemy saw one from a distance, would they be scared that it's a super weapon or laugh because it looks kind of ridiculous?
Looks a little like some sort of tactical missile launcher...
I think if the enemy can see it you're doing bridgelaying wrong.
Why spend a minimal amount of money to create a vehicle that can lay bridges when you can spend massive amounts of money to make the tank aquatic and have this barely be used
Because it looks very similar to German "Brucken" tanks? No, it's pretty obvious what it is. Because it's not in your video game does not make it "strange."
They'd laugh. Right up until tanks and armoured cars and trucks full of infantry started swarming over what they thought was an uncrossable obstacle.
Another perfect example of British ingenuity developed by men in sheds.
t h r e a d e d r o d
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AKA helical drive ;-)
For their pleasure XD
In rod we trust.
You should try one some time.
some day we'll find that 1 thumbs downer! ..some day
The mustache of knowledge is irrefutable.
Hey babe let's play a game called every time the words threaded Rod is used I get a b******
I want your babies David fletcher.