Three tips with a Ferret... Remember to pedal up in each gear 20 times each morning or get the infamous kick-back The steering doesn't self-centre if you let go of the wheel. The rear louvres are perfect for heating up a tin from your ration pack - preferably the one with snake & pygmy pudding.
The ferret was the longest serving armoured vehicle with the British army .first ones went into service in the late 50s and the last ones came out in the 90s .amazing vehicle with full independent suspension .rolls Royce b60 engine and pre select gearbox made the ferret a very capable vehicle. It could also go in reverse as fast as it could forwards. My ferret was army reg no. 00 DC 03 it was a mk2/3
Many a happy hour screaming around the Berlin Wall with my 2 Para Ferret section in the late 70`s. God knows how we didnt roll them on the back roads to Gatow etc...... 60mph plus. Mind you, we were young and deathproof!!
1.Never had a 3 man crew with the British Army...far too small inside for that! 2. Drivers would always enter & leave via the drivers hatch. 3. The vast majority of British Ferrets had a Browning .30 in the turret.
@Chris Richardson 1. It is correct that the "open top", ie the Mk1 could take a 3 man crew, but that was rare circumstances. The turreted versions (Mk2, 4, or 5) never had 3 crew. 3. The British never used 7.62 Brownings in Ferret, they only used .30 cals. The "upgrade" in weapon on Ferret was to replace the Browning with a 7.62 GPMG. The Candians did use 7.62 mm Brownings, but they never had their own turreted Ferrets, so the comment is presumably because they are Canadians and their museum does not know any better.
Those are not vents, they are vision slits (You can get splinter guards that still let you see out.) Mk2 versions do NOT carry a crew of three (There are several versions of Mk2s) . Only the Mk1/2 carries three. The ferret has a pre selective gearbox, you select the gear BEFORE using the Gear Change Pedal (GCP) It might seem minor but changing gear the way you describe is a fantastic way of killing the gearbox, you have to make sure the revs are in the correct range. The main gun was originally a browning or a bren (later converted to 7.62mm). Guys, if you're going to do videos, then at least look up Wikipedia or ask some of the many groups that have formed up around vehicles, they are a great resource filled with friendly people.
@@drogomuircastle7175 the British army didn't have heavy machine guns? In hindsight the best explanation for not putting an HMG on a ferret is that it might tempt the crew to actually try to fight something
@@ArtietheArchon It's not an issue weapon on the army inventory at that time, no. The only people who ever had them were the Paras and the HAC on special Land Rovers. It also won't fit and would wreck that silly little light turret it if ever was fitted and was used....
I'd love a Ferret with an electric drivetrain. Not as stupid as it seems. There are lots of knackered Ferrets going cheap. Buy one for peanuts and pay somebody to fit the electric system. Excellent low-speed torque.
It was a :30 mg m1919 a4 not 7:62mm and the flash hider was not usually on British vehicle. To get 1st gear you had to press the button on top of gear lever. The radiator has also been altered as there was a large heat exhaust vent on the very rear.
The Ferret is a great design, it looks like with some modification it would be a good civilian two seater: very easy access to the engine should make repairs a breeze, all other parts such as the shocks are easy to access, of course remove the steel roof and replace it with a slightly taller glass and add a steel roll cage, change the seating and steering, add an upgraded break package and the usual creature comforts e.g. AC, finally cut a door on both sides and keep the spare tires, and you have one heck of a car!
I've got about ten acres with some stables on it. Might get one for chain harrowing and stuff instead of a cheap tractor, plus it would give me something to do that isn't playing video games and painting warhammer figures lol.
If you want to find out what going against a MBT in a lightly armed reconnaissance vehicle is like, I would recommend watching part 2 of our video interview with the commander of a Sultan. Our good friend George Clegg had a run in with a Type 59 tank! Check out his story at 8:01 of this video: ua-cam.com/video/D0fGGn9-TwQ/v-deo.html
Well done video boys. Great to see a running, driving Ferret. Always wondered how the British Army successor the FOX performed. Wheeled Recce platforms have advantages- fast and quiet compared to track. Also some neat looking AFV's in the background within the compound. I think I saw a BMP, M551 Sheridan and something mounted on an M113.
I drove one of theses when i was based in Berlin, Germany (62 Transport & Movement Squadron) British Army. this was around 1986/7. My camp had a large vehicle bay which held all sorts of older military vehicles, which were fully working, but not used that often. Wonder where all that stuff went.
The French army had it during the colonial wars. The limits of the Ferret have determined the specifications for the AML 60 Panhard. (60 mm mortar and 3 men crew)
Auberon Waugh- the son of the writer Evelyn Waugh managed to shoot himself with his Ferret's Browning machine gun while on service in Cyprus in 1959. His Troop Corporal of Horse in the Blues (The Royal Horse Guards) was asked by Waugh to give him a kiss of life- as in Admiral Nelson's "Kiss me Hardy" but he was less than thrilled- he did not realise it was a joke. You never know what you might have to do in an emergency! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auberon_Waugh
@Chris Richardson The "Brits", never, ever, used a 3 man crew on a Ferret and it was never designed as such. Even the logistics Ferret, (without a turret), was only ever designed to have a crew of 2. With a turret fitted, it's impossible even for us tiny tiny tiny "Brits" to fit 3 in there. And I speak from 16 years service in an Armoured regiment.
deflate the tyre. Ensure that it is absoluted deflated. Take out the valve. take the inside bolts off (they are usually painted red).split the rims. take the tyre off. their is a runflat solid rubber inner, this needs to come out of the tyre before the tube can be replaced
The inside bolts take the wheel off the vehicle. The outside ones split the rim. Be very careful when removing the outer bolts to ensure the is NO air left inside the tyre.
First gear is only used when starting off in bad conditions or steep hills. Normal practice is to drive off in second. When changing gears, first select the gear you want to be in, make sure your engine revs are in the correct range (Think 20 to 25% higher than what you think sounds right for a normal car), then only when it is appropriate, push down on the GCP in one firm motion.
@@ptonpc just select the next gear you "think" you might need, then hit the GCP. Also, not to be forgotten is the transfer handle : you can be at 30kph going forwards , slam on the brakes, hit the TRF and suddenly you're going backwards. Anti-ambush :•)
He isn't wrong exactly. The original browning used .30-06, and that is 7.62x63, though not the same as what we think of when saying "7.62" as we are thinking of the 7.62x51mm, not the 7.62x63. But many Browning machine guns was later converted to the 7.62 nato.
@@Descorath I have to correct you there, being a troop recce driver for some time I can confirm some ferrets were retro fitted with 7.62mm G.P.M.G L8A1 IN THE EARLY 1980's.
If you can get a crew of 3 in there they would have to be midget contortionists. The main shortcoming of the ferret is very poor fuel range, the 4.5 litre Roll Royce drank like a fish. Remove the ignition govenor and the ferret could do about 150 kph (unless it ran out of fuel first).
tommothedog maybe the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa do, but the British populations of countries like China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Iran, the majority of the Middle East and South America etc don't have any large numbers of British descended people. Even the English speaking countries of Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe etc) have bigger British populations than others but really, only North America, Australia and NZ and Southern Africa are like you described.
Don't dislike this video just because the presenters are young, young boys because in a very small way this vehicle is why you're not watching this video in Russian
FFS. I know more about these vehicles than YOU after ten minutes researching online! Crew of three on MK 1. All others with the turret a crew of TWO! Don't bother mentioning the fact that it has a PRE-SELECTOR gearbox... Or the H Drive transmission.
The German Daimler company set up a subsidiary in the UK before WW1. They became different companies after the start of WW1. The name "Daimler" is owned by Jaguar, after the two companies merged.
Just a quick note, before you make a documentary about a subject, make sure you know your subject. Crew of 2 not 3 driver and commander. Standard turret weapon was a Browning .30 calibre. I have given up on watching anymore!
i had to drive one of these for a while when i was based in germany, i always thought it was a pile of junk on wheels, crampet and as much good as a carrying handle on a tank
good grief, so many mistakes in the commentary, what a dreadful example to set for a video associated with a military museum. Work out a storyboard before filming, or do a voiceover in the editing suite, so what you say relates to what is being shown, and is accurate.
"With armour 8mm to 16mm thick, the Ferret was capable of handling anything it might come up against". Really? So in your little fantasy world, there are no RPG,'s tanks or other large caliber weapons or missiles that make mince meat of this thing within the blink of an eye. Go back to playing World of Tanks, this whole video is embarrassing.
Three tips with a Ferret...
Remember to pedal up in each gear 20 times each morning or get the infamous kick-back
The steering doesn't self-centre if you let go of the wheel.
The rear louvres are perfect for heating up a tin from your ration pack - preferably the one with snake & pygmy pudding.
snake & pygmy pudding.
...we had babies head.
@@nealogorman1810 Chicken in brown sauce 😀.
If one of us came back from a replenishment run with that menu pack we were in the doghouse!
The ferret was the longest serving armoured vehicle with the British army .first ones went into service in the late 50s and the last ones came out in the 90s .amazing vehicle with full independent suspension .rolls Royce b60 engine and pre select gearbox made the ferret a very capable vehicle. It could also go in reverse as fast as it could forwards. My ferret was army reg no. 00 DC 03 it was a mk2/3
St kitts and nevis army still uses them
Many a happy hour screaming around the Berlin Wall with my 2 Para Ferret section in the late 70`s. God knows how we didnt roll them on the back roads to Gatow etc...... 60mph plus. Mind you, we were young and deathproof!!
Do you know what rifle rounds that 5/8 armor will stop, or what type of steel was used?
nice story.. my father was also a ferret driver back then
and we won
1.Never had a 3 man crew with the British Army...far too small inside for that! 2. Drivers would always enter & leave via the drivers hatch. 3. The vast majority of British Ferrets had a Browning .30 in the turret.
@Chris Richardson 1. It is correct that the "open top", ie the Mk1 could take a 3 man crew, but that was rare circumstances. The turreted versions (Mk2, 4, or 5) never had 3 crew.
3. The British never used 7.62 Brownings in Ferret, they only used .30 cals. The "upgrade" in weapon on Ferret was to replace the Browning with a 7.62 GPMG. The Candians did use 7.62 mm Brownings, but they never had their own turreted Ferrets, so the comment is presumably because they are Canadians and their museum does not know any better.
Always nice to see the Daimler Ferret out and about, its a really fun drive.
In lybya it was a two man vehicle. The radio was tuned in before we drove off .
I’m guessing a 19 set back then?
Those are not vents, they are vision slits (You can get splinter guards that still let you see out.) Mk2 versions do NOT carry a crew of three (There are several versions of Mk2s) . Only the Mk1/2 carries three.
The ferret has a pre selective gearbox, you select the gear BEFORE using the Gear Change Pedal (GCP) It might seem minor but changing gear the way you describe is a fantastic way of killing the gearbox, you have to make sure the revs are in the correct range.
The main gun was originally a browning or a bren (later converted to 7.62mm).
Guys, if you're going to do videos, then at least look up Wikipedia or ask some of the many groups that have formed up around vehicles, they are a great resource filled with friendly people.
ptonpc they were probably for both
I wonder why the Ferret was not equipped with a .50 seems more appropriate
@@ArtietheArchon Because at that time it wasn't in the British army inventory.
@@drogomuircastle7175 the British army didn't have heavy machine guns? In hindsight the best explanation for not putting an HMG on a ferret is that it might tempt the crew to actually try to fight something
@@ArtietheArchon It's not an issue weapon on the army inventory at that time, no. The only people who ever had them were the Paras and the HAC on special Land Rovers. It also won't fit and would wreck that silly little light turret it if ever was fitted and was used....
When You Have People Talk About A Subject , It’s Usually a Good Idea That They Know What They’re Talking About
I'd love a Ferret with an electric drivetrain. Not as stupid as it seems.
There are lots of knackered Ferrets going cheap. Buy one for peanuts and pay somebody to fit the electric system. Excellent low-speed torque.
Very proffesional, well done!
It was a :30 mg m1919 a4 not 7:62mm and the flash hider was not usually on British vehicle. To get 1st gear you had to press the button on top of gear lever. The radiator has also been altered as there was a large heat exhaust vent on the very rear.
Retro fitted with 7.62 G.P.M.G early 80's......L8A1 if I R.E.member correctly
I've always liked these little tanks,,,
Tanks have *tracks.*
Howard Fortyfive: not if you are Lieutenant Grüber!
The Ferret is a great design, it looks like with some modification it would be a good civilian two seater: very easy access to the engine should make repairs a breeze, all other parts such as the shocks are easy to access, of course remove the steel roof and replace it with a slightly taller glass and add a steel roll cage, change the seating and steering, add an upgraded break package and the usual creature comforts e.g. AC, finally cut a door on both sides and keep the spare tires, and you have one heck of a car!
It's certainly been done with a Daimler Dingo, which is the earlier version
I've got about ten acres with some stables on it. Might get one for chain harrowing and stuff instead of a cheap tractor, plus it would give me something to do that isn't playing video games and painting warhammer figures lol.
Is this a Wilson preselector gearbox ? Someone else said London buses, but I am thinking of many preWW2 sports cars that mounted that transmission.
The Wilson preselect gearbox was used in many vehicles, buses, armoured vehicles and yep, sports cars.
And farm machinery. The seal between the engine and the fluid coupling is a John Deare part!
0:57 except, a T64 right? I would love to see how that would go down!
If you want to find out what going against a MBT in a lightly armed reconnaissance vehicle is like, I would recommend watching part 2 of our video interview with the commander of a Sultan. Our good friend George Clegg had a run in with a Type 59 tank! Check out his story at 8:01 of this video: ua-cam.com/video/D0fGGn9-TwQ/v-deo.html
Very cool video.
Learned quite a bit!
Thank you!
No you didn't. Spend ten minutes online doing your own research if you want to learn 'quite a bit' about these. Those pair are muppets!
Great small vehicle to take to the store for weekly grocery shopping!
I'm in the UK. My eleven-year-old son wants me to buy an AFV.
If I had to choose, it would be a Ferret.
Well done video boys. Great to see a running, driving Ferret. Always wondered how the British Army successor the FOX performed. Wheeled Recce platforms have advantages- fast and quiet compared to track. Also some neat looking AFV's in the background within the compound. I think I saw a BMP, M551 Sheridan and something mounted on an M113.
@ Rob I noticed that 113 in the background myself . Call me crazy but it looked like a TOW II mounted on top .
@@I_am_Diogenes Thought for a second maybe the exotic ADATS, but did not look right. Figuring likely TOW Under Armour.
I always thought the Dingo was the Ferrit's direct father. DNA paternity test and daytime drama show time.
tow under armour ,upgrade for M113
I drove one of theses when i was based in Berlin, Germany (62 Transport & Movement Squadron) British Army. this was around 1986/7. My camp had a large vehicle bay which held all sorts of older military vehicles, which were fully working, but not used that often. Wonder where all that stuff went.
Doug DeMuro Drove this around Tennessee
Nice one guy s chaps thanks 😊
Great vehicle!
What about the button on top of the gear selector lever?
7.62 mm ? Try 30 cal .
Why do you even care if they are the same thing.
Yes sir...
The French army had it during the colonial wars. The limits of the Ferret have determined the specifications for the AML 60 Panhard. (60 mm mortar and 3 men crew)
Auberon Waugh- the son of the writer Evelyn Waugh managed to shoot himself with his Ferret's Browning machine gun while on service in Cyprus in 1959. His Troop Corporal of Horse in the Blues (The Royal Horse Guards) was asked by Waugh to give him a kiss of life- as in Admiral Nelson's "Kiss me Hardy" but he was less than thrilled- he did not realise it was a joke. You never know what you might have to do in an emergency!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auberon_Waugh
Sweet tiny but mighty small but terrible tank sume time i like to order one even its old i still like it and nice video i love it
Duh crew of 3 ? ...never heard of it : WTF!!!? (C sqdn RHDG)
@Chris Richardson The "Brits", never, ever, used a 3 man crew on a Ferret and it was never designed as such. Even the logistics Ferret, (without a turret), was only ever designed to have a crew of 2. With a turret fitted, it's impossible even for us tiny tiny tiny "Brits" to fit 3 in there. And I speak from 16 years service in an Armoured regiment.
Rather beautiful design.those Brits have awesome esthetics.
I would love to join you and drive the feret! I'll do volunteer work for you any day!
A common sight around The Streets Of Belfast.
please I would like to know how we can change ferret tires
deflate the tyre. Ensure that it is absoluted deflated. Take out the valve. take the inside bolts off (they are usually painted red).split the rims. take the tyre off. their is a runflat solid rubber inner, this needs to come out of the tyre before the tube can be replaced
The inside bolts take the wheel off the vehicle. The outside ones split the rim. Be very careful when removing the outer bolts to ensure the is NO air left inside the tyre.
Good video guys. Love the ferret . Would love to see a modern version .
When reaching peak rpms in first gear, do you need to manually switch to second?
Don't take my word for this, but if I remember correctly you have to manually switch into second with the preselection gearbox.
First gear is only used when starting off in bad conditions or steep hills. Normal practice is to drive off in second.
When changing gears, first select the gear you want to be in, make sure your engine revs are in the correct range (Think 20 to 25% higher than what you think sounds right for a normal car), then only when it is appropriate, push down on the GCP in one firm motion.
@@ptonpc just select the next gear you "think" you might need, then hit the GCP. Also, not to be forgotten is the transfer handle : you can be at 30kph going forwards , slam on the brakes, hit the TRF and suddenly you're going backwards. Anti-ambush :•)
You put it in second as you take off in first and hit the pedal switch to change gear when you get the revs .
Is it possible to own one as a civilian?
3:56 where is second gear?
it NEVER has a 7.62mm machine gun fitted! it was always the Browning .03
He isn't wrong exactly.
The original browning used .30-06, and that is 7.62x63, though not the same as what we think of when saying "7.62" as we are thinking of the 7.62x51mm, not the 7.62x63. But many Browning machine guns was later converted to the 7.62 nato.
The Ferret mounted the M1919A4, FN GPMG, BREN MK.3 and BREN L4.
@@Descorath I have to correct you there, being a troop recce driver for some time I can confirm some ferrets were retro fitted with 7.62mm G.P.M.G L8A1 IN THE EARLY 1980's.
Crew of three???
Wouldn't like one of those armoured scout cars down my trousers, no Sir !
If you can get a crew of 3 in there they would have to be midget contortionists. The main shortcoming of the ferret is very poor fuel range, the 4.5 litre Roll Royce drank like a fish. Remove the ignition govenor and the ferret could do about 150 kph (unless it ran out of fuel first).
What people don't realise is nearly every country in the world has a significant British or part British population
tommothedog maybe the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa do, but the British populations of countries like China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Iran, the majority of the Middle East and South America etc don't have any large numbers of British descended people.
Even the English speaking countries of Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe etc) have bigger British populations than others but really, only North America, Australia and NZ and Southern Africa are like you described.
That automatic transmission sure looks like a manual to me. If that's automatic... it's the most labor intensive automatic I've seen.
Don't dislike this video just because the presenters are young, young boys because in a very small way this vehicle is why you're not watching this video in Russian
Where can i buy that xD
tanks-alot.co.uk/product/turreted-ferret-green/
A crew of two.driver and commander.
FFS. I know more about these vehicles than YOU after ten minutes researching online!
Crew of three on MK 1. All others with the turret a crew of TWO!
Don't bother mentioning the fact that it has a PRE-SELECTOR gearbox...
Or the H Drive transmission.
i bet you guys play world of tanks. I'd love to have one of those parked in my driveway. Wasn't Daimler a german company?
Different Daimler weirdly. Took me years to figure that out.
The German Daimler company set up a subsidiary in the UK before WW1. They became different companies after the start of WW1. The name "Daimler" is owned by Jaguar, after the two companies merged.
@@raypurchase801 Cheers Ray. I always wondered about that.
Oh bugger, the tank is on fire
Episcopes..Not Periscopes..Duh!
I feel like this would have a more powerful engine than an Inline 6
I got a different name in mind... a jumping spider.
.30 cal mg not 7.62mm
Classic
LoL, compared to my old Volkswagen with aprox. 95hp/t... But, of course, my car has no armour. 8D
its so cute
That looks like a tank on an ATV chassis😂
I heard they are very hot and cramped.
Only on hot days, in winter you froze as the air filters were inside the vehicle and were continually drawing in cold air
Don't speak about the presenters that way.
John, since your a English cxnt why do you tell us.
A Canadian named johann.
Just a quick note, before you make a documentary about a subject, make sure you know your subject. Crew of 2 not 3 driver and commander. Standard turret weapon was a Browning .30 calibre. I have given up on watching anymore!
Such a cool looking 'car', but this one needs some TLC.
i had to drive one of these for a while when i was based in germany, i always thought it was a pile of junk on wheels, crampet and as much good as a carrying handle on a tank
Lol that's the way all British manuals are!
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This chap should get his facts right before making a fool of himself, most of what he's saying is complete rubbish.
Sneaky Medeaky.
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Damn it, Johann, quit saying “you’ve got.” It is incorrect English. Say “you have.”
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I do not understand that why the army need vehicles like this.
think armoured jeep
have ever heard lav?
good grief, so many mistakes in the commentary, what a dreadful example to set for a video associated with a military museum. Work out a storyboard before filming, or do a voiceover in the editing suite, so what you say relates to what is being shown, and is accurate.
Perfect car for gamers
SPEAK UP!
You're the type of person who is a antagonist in a movie about theater.
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"With armour 8mm to 16mm thick, the Ferret was capable of handling anything it might come up against". Really? So in your little fantasy world, there are no RPG,'s tanks or other large caliber weapons or missiles that make mince meat of this thing within the blink of an eye. Go back to playing World of Tanks, this whole video is embarrassing.
thats a key fob