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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2020
- The 100th Tank Chat milestone has been reached as the Rolls-Royce Armoured Car turns 100 years old! In this special edition, everybody's favourite moustachioed tank historian David Fletcher examines his favourite vehicle in The Tank Museum's collection: the Rolls-Royce Armoured Car, on its 100th birthday.
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Man, this really is the Rolls-Royce of armoured cars.
Nice to be able to casually drop in a statement about driving a Rolls-Royce to work when meeting someone
Ba dum tish!
You know its British when they roll off to war in style!
@@BHuang92Yeah, Yanks get Chevy Brits get RR
It’s so painful I love it
"The germans didn't turn up for some reason or other". Trust David Fletcher to make the understatement of the century. 😁
Candidate for "Most British Thing Said" in this video.
Three second doucumentary on Operation Sealion right there.
@@leeboy26 some lone Home Guard soldier on a cold windswept beach hoping they don't turn up before he gets back to base for his hot cup of tea.
@@bigblue6917 My guess as to why they didn't turn up was Hitler had a premonition of David riding along in the back of one.
@Robert Gräfe Britain 2 : Germany 0. Want to make it 3:0 ? 😉
Reasons to visit bovington museum:
1° - David Fletcher
2° - David Willey
3° - the tanks
Well then why not both mr.flecther and mr.willeys?
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I see, so the two requirements to work in Tank Museum are
1) First name David
2) Have a moustache
Yeah, we're going to the David Museum in Bovington next year ;)
Agreed.
The model should come with a to-scale figure of David Fletcher to stand in the back.
Ok, Tank Museum, time to produce Fletchers in pointing mode in various popular model scales.
You can buy the Cobi Matilda II. It includes an Mr. Fletcher Minifig!
@@papaaaaaaa2625 oh wow I thought you meant it was some minifig that had a vague resemblance to him, but I looked it up and turns out that's actually supposed to be him lmao
@@EvMund Yep, a small Mr Fletcher Minifig for collectors or the sons toy collection. All we need now is a small David Willy, a small Richard Smith and a not so small Nicholas Moran and it would be possible to Play Tiger Day at home...
Yes. But the museum also needs a life size wax model of Mr. Fletcher, otherwise no one will recognize that it's the Tank Museum when it's his day off.
@@papaaaaaaa2625 we also need a scale model Sofilein with various haircut options.
"Yeah I volunteered at Tank fest"
"Oh wow what was your job?"
"Tugging on David Fletcher's trousers to tell him he'd finished"
no one likes it when you do that 😆😁😆😘😜
Just don't get over enthusiastic about it. No one wants to see David Fletcher's nether regions
Without debagging him. LOL. Thank you Mr. Fletcher!
Damn
@@bigblue6917 tugging on sir Davids neither regions in a Rolls Royce Tank .I'm mentally scared now !!lol..But it was his favourite and I'm sure he got very exited. ..somebody would have to say it's time to go home now David.Its been four hours! Its all in fun .Good on you David.
Her sister in Ireland celebrated her 100th birthday on Tuesday
A few months ago I bought a couple of books on the Rolls Royce Armored cars and was surprised that there was no Tank Chat for the Rolls by Mr. Fletcher.I wrote to the Tank Museum and they said that there was one scheduled. This video was well worth the wait. Mr. Fletcher's stories and wry comments are both informative and entertaining. Beside the Haynes manual, Mr. Fletcher has authored "The Rolls Royce Armoured Car" published by Osprey, and "War Cars" by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.The latter, published in 1987, has a photo on the back cover of a much younger David Fletcher with a much smaller mustache. Thank you Mr. Fletcher for this video.
Mr Fletcher is certainly a remarkable man.
The mustache has always been the same size; Fletcher himself is merely shrinking as he ages. In another three decades his face will be mostly mustache.
That last reply of mine should read 'East' of Mumbai (5 hours drive each way by taxi!)
06:10 'drove up and down the East coast looking for Germans … who never turned up for some reason' epic understatement indeed :)
David Fletcher: the Lorax of tanks.
Us Irish had the Rolls in service until 1944 because we ran out of spare tyres. You can tell we loved driving them just as much as David!
I'm surprised that the Irish didn't use them for weddings
it's not forbidden to run the exhaust cutouts in the UK to avoid frightening people, it's forbidden to avoid embarrassing Rolls Royce by having people hear a noisy Rolls.
A bunch of men in top hats and double-breasted jackets pull up in an old Silver Dawn and shush you loudly, then gesture wildly with their umbrellas.
@@henryrodgers7386 fun fact, if your rolls needs a ride to the shop, they will show up with an enclosed transporter so that nobody ever sees a rolls behind a tow truck.
Exhaust cut-outs used to be an option on a number of British sports cars between the wars. You could quietly potter down to your local racing circuit at the weekend, scream around like a lunatic, then trundle home without disturbing evensong.
@@davidjones332 they were common on many cars around that time.
Seeing Mr Fletcher standing in the car in a stoic fashion is simply spectacular.
English gentleman with Rolls Royce and driver (2020, colorized)
What a gem of a video! I love the personal tales about it, and the accompanying photographs. Thanks for making and sharing!
I think I'll take a look at that book too.
A trully iconic car... and to see it's still moving around, _after 100 years_ ...amazing.
Thats the rolls royce promise
They built well then
My family has a 1919 model, we drove it a few days ago and it ran beautifully. Haven't made the armoured modification yet!
Another fascinating video. My grandfather drove these vehicles in the 1920-1921 whilst stationed with No 7 Armoured Car Company Tank Corps at Peshawar. He then went on to become an Instructor at Bovington until he was medically discharged in 1931 having been instructing on a vickers medium tank on 2nd May 1930 when it lost control whilst travelling from Farnborough to Lulworth and travelled through a barrier into the canal at Bull Grove Nr Winchester. (I believe that at the time instructors traveled on the turret of the tank with legs either side of the gun to enable them to speak to the driver). The barrier consisted of a horizontal metal pole which crushed my grandfathers foot and after infection set in he had to have his leg amputated below the knee. His other claim was that my grandmother used to do Laurence of Arabia's laundry as he was stationed at Bovington Camp as T E Shaw in 1923. My grandfather died when I was 6 in 1965 and I wish that he had lived longer so that I could have understood more of his service, He was in the Army from 1911-1931 and despite having to leave on medical grounds was always a military man at heart.
That should be published, especially if you have references; even his service number would be enough. If you have photos you could do a video. Ask young relations for help.
@@backblaise1255 thank you excuse my ignorance but who is / are young relations? I have his service number / service record book from 1919 when he transfered to the machine gun corps which I understand was absorbed into the Tank Corps after a short period of time.
@@ashbrooks2857 You could write his autobiography, and pictures or documents from his life would broaden it and make it more valuable, as would references. If you do that you can just share it with family, or publish it: as a booklet, or online, or as a video documentary. The last could reach a big audience but is the most complex to do well. If you have family that can help then the job becomes easier
Retired Aussie Armoured Corps soldier here. AFV crewman is a risky occupation, even these days. There is no give with amoured vehicles. Don't know how many times I hit my head on protuberances on the interior ceiling of the turret. Inside, very quickly learn to move slowly and deliberately to avoid painful collisions with tank bits and peices.
When I first joined the RAAC in 1981, we were not issued helmets, we wore our black beret and earphones/mike. The AFV crewmen of your Grandfather's day had it way worse than us more modern AFV crewmen did. They must have been tough and I salute and honour them. I am very gladdened that you have shared some of your Grandfather's history. I hope you share more.
I visited Peshawar in the early 1990s on business. The local Pathani people are so welcoming and friendly. At the time, there were about 1 million Afghani refugees from the 1980s Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The model vehicle your Grandfather operated was likely the earlier model (1914 pattern RRAC) there is only one known example in the World and it is in India at the Cavalry Training Centre museum in Ahmendnagar West of Mumbai. I have visited it twice and reverse engineered it creating a complete set of plans for it. Thank you for taking time to read my reply.
David Fletcher, a most sympathetic british gentelman, as well as, his deep knowledge of what he is talking about. 👍👍
Special note to North American audience. "Debagger" is UK slang for removing someone's trousers by force as a humiliation ... but I still spit my coffee across my key board anyway. Great episode as usual. Terrific seeing the interactions of this particular vehicle with The Queen and events over the years.
Panzer4F2 Thanks for the explanation. I was hoping it was something like that. It’s called being pantsed here in Canada.
Debagging in the removal of a persons trousers by force. A debagger is the person doing the debagging.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 And the debagee was the individual being debagged by the debagger.
In the US we called ebagging de-pantsing and I also about fell out of my chair when he said that.
@@peterwright4647 Same in my part of the US, pantsing or to be pantsed, hilarious when youre in middle school/junior high. And apparently still funny lol. Thanks for the info i'll have to store this away for a future trivia night.
"Hopefully without de-bagging me in the process". David's slight of phrase is one of my favorite things about these chats.
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I could litsen to David Fletcher telling stories all day. Such a wonderful man.
I always loved those cars. I 100% agree that there is something remarkable about them that makes them special. The fact that you can have a car (early models) on spoked wheels, with 80hp engine, two wheel drive and carrying around 4 tonnes of armour, yet it stil can work in conditions that at least 50% of today's cars wouldn't be able to and even fight in those conditions as well, is just mindblowing.
FolgoreCZ When i was a young car enthusiast i remember seeing one of these Rolls Royce armoured cars and was fascinated by how robust but cleverly built they were. I learned they served in every theatre of operations around the world, were mass produced, not just in British service either. They were even deployed to regions like Afghanistan, and even Australasian territories too. The Japanese even built cars based on the chassis. I think the Rolls Royce models in British service were later replaced by the Lanchester.
Just as well Rolls Royce learnt from their mistakes and now sell cars with actual seats :)
It seems to be a British thing to not put in proper seats, see the universal carrier, probably a treasury requirement to save money.
@@ogilkes1 The old landrover defender dident have comfortable adjustable seats either nore anywhere to put your elbow unless you had the window wound down all the time and a fairly pathetic heater .The upside would be your workmen or soldiers would be keen to get out asap to start a days work before they had cramp and claustrophobia of course.A merc g wagon or a Basic box Australian farmer Ute Toyota landcruser trumped it in every area.Not to mention the Old daihatsu fourtrak.
Rolls Royce don’t make mistakes ! 😉
"It was supposed to increase the speed, but no one ever noticed that." Ohhh, David, don't ever change.
Love watching these videos,I was lucky enough to be stationed just over the road in 1982 when I trained as a junior leader as a gunner in the Royal Armoured Corps and every Sunday we would go over to look around this great museum.
At the time there were loads of vehicles outside so it’s nice to see most are inside the extended museum now.
If you ever get the chance to go,i would recommend visiting over two days,there’s that much to see.
The first time you get to stand next to a tank you won’t ever forget,such imposing beasts.
From now on it shall be known to me as Fletcher Limo.
I have met David Fletcher on a number of occasions several years ago. For David's fans, you may be interested to know that he told me that years ago, he used to drive trams in Melbourne Australia and showed me a photo of his tram on St Kilda Rd. Melbourne. I have found David Fletcher to be very helpful and he has an infectious passion for things armour and armour history. Same with David Willey. I read in another comment that David Fletcher has been awarded the MBE. David, your MBE is well deserved. It was David Fletcher, who in 2001, alerted me to the existence of a RRAC 1914 pattern which had then recently been discovered in India. The only known example in the World. I have visited it twice (2001 and 2003) and created a set of engineering drawings from it by reverse engineering. I understand David is now long retired but I am confident, he has not lost his passion for armour. Thank you to both Davids.
The fletcher moustache mask. For all you ladies out there, a must have essential for all real men this Christmas.
And the Mr majeka hair do.
Mr majika 🤣 he's missing the little wiggly bit in top.
Perish the thought, my wife would make me wear it 24/7
Cheers to 100th tank chat and to the oldest running vehicle in the tank museum! May it run for future generations!
I am so happy that The Tank Museum is here to immortalise the great David Fletcher MBE. He is so full of stories and a great raconteur.
It makes me sad to think of all the similarly great people of the past for whom we have no audio-visual record.
Nice armoured car, too.
My grandfather served in the Rolls-Royce cars in Ireland, including "Sliabh na Mban" and I had the pleasure of sitting in it a few years ago in the Curragh.
There is something so satisfying in seeing David Fletcher in the back of this, wether you are at a tank museum parade or in the middle east in 1919. Absolutely remarkable.
David Fletcher is a gem.
Professor Fletcher never fails to fascinate me with his knowledge and tickle my funny bone with his droll sense of humor. I fear I have become an addict of Tank Chats and wish I could make a trip to the mother country to see these exhibits for myself.
David is the Tank Museums most valuable asset.
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David Fletcher 'tache mask - internet won. Best patreon money I'll ever spend to keep such a stunning historical resource going.
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Basically an armed and armoured pickup truck, ideal for modern day America......the designers were ahead of their time.
#1 Wind Mr. Fletcher
#2 Set him pottering amongst the tanks
#3 Listen as long as he talks
Note - the Irish Defense Forces RR 1920 patt. Armoured Car is in the Curragh, Co Kildare, rather than Dublin.
Love this chap, the chats are perfect, long may they continue. Stay safe David.
Whatever in the world will the Tank Museum do whenever David Fletcher is finally not around! My suggestion is stuff him and add him to the collection. The Museum would not be the same without him, God bless him.
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David Fletcher is a treasure
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They served as described in India and also in Burma. My uncle who served in the Burma Rifles, drove them in the early 1940's. They had a switch to electrify the body shell to prevent tribesmen from climbing over the car. They were the only armoured vehicles when the Japanese invaded in 1942 and I was told of the bullets ricocheting inside.
Thank you Mr. Fletcher for this interesting and entertaining History Lesson. You're truely the Tank Museums Highlight. Hope to visit the Museum again after everything has normalized, please stay healthy until then and also afterwards!
Cheerio Sir.
A crew of four: commander, gunner, driver and debagger
An uncle of mine was in the RAF in Egypt in the early Thirties. For some reason he was attached to the Camel Corps for a while and also drove in these armoured cars. I do remember him saying that they had to be cautious when cornering at speed as the turret could sheer off.
Happy 100th birthday, armored car! And congratulations to 100 tank chats, too!
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It’s so easy to forget that his passion and knowledge will be seen for hundreds if not thousands of years, it’s very important and so detailed.
And being Irish I shouldn’t like this... I understand the history and engineering. Love the passion
irish? You mispronounced Guinness English my good sir. /s
I was waiting for this one. The armoured version is just as classy and posh as the civilian version. No wonder this is Mr. Fletcher's favorite vehicle in the collection and his personal ride at Tankfest. Thanks for the video!
these old cars/early tanks are so exiting. It is amazing to learn the details and history. Thanks a lot.....
I’m glad David got to take a look back on his first car here.
Two national treasures right there.......
A very special 100th tank chat, thanks for putting this together for us to enjoy.
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Congratulations on the 100th Tank Chat! BOOYAH!
I love the personal connection between David Fletcher and this particular car!
Sir David nearly gets pantsed, an appearance by Her Majesty, and an armored Rolls with no brakes. Best Tank Chat ever!
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Love what you do here guys, been to the museum 2 times now, never disappoints with your massive collection!
Happy 100th! and many many thanks for all the quality content
How can a man seem so gruff from the looks, but become so warm and likable when you watch him speak? I love it! Thank you for doing these talks and congratulations on the milestone!
Congrats on 100 guys, fantastic content as always!
This is actually the 109th Tank Chat by sequence. Go figure.
Thank you
"The Tank Museum" for the 100th video of excelente and informative content. The tank historians that present us this wonderful videos are very much what bring us to actually think and remember the passed events of our world!
I can not bring myself to read a book or something due to the price and problems of finding something I will actually end up reading all the way trough. But this presenters are so wonderful and bring a format (for free!!) that is so well put together and to the point! With some insight from the representer making it a treat that brighten up the day!
It is unfair to disregard the other representers for reading the scripts and doing a grate job! But everybody's favourite moustachioed tank historian David Fletcher is such a wonderful person! He just put the bar way to high up! He is such a character and never fails to make you laugh due to how honest and well informed around the topics of TANKS! He is not probably the greatest at specifics but the way he talks about the subject the the collected knowledge and experience just shines true every time he is on camera!
And David Willey being such a perfect fit to represent "The Tank Museum"! Being so professional and good hearted that he can avoid staining the image of "The Tank Museum". He can
tackle even the hardest subjects without slipping up and saying something that can be taken wrong or out of conext. He sometimes feels a bit boring since he is just to good at something very very hard. And that being a historian with a voice and nothing else!
But with the hard times we are in now really have proven that he is invaluable and would be very dangerous being a spokesperson for someone else that are trying to weasel there way out of horrible things. He is so slick and have a way with worlds!
And the Director of "The Tank Museum" have also shown himself to be such a wholesome and a perfect person for the position. Saying this without any information about him more then what is here on UA-cam. But the way he presented history really show that he is very much in his position for a good reason.
And a thanks to the rest of "The Tank Museum". It is wonderful the work you all are doing and you should not be forgotten. But without being able to even visit you or even know ho the rest of "The Tank Museum" is, well it is really hard to even know what to say to you all. Since UA-cam is what the majority of us interact with "The Tank Museum" there is not very many except the reps and maybe the Tank Diary people one can really know exist. And even if you go to the Museum or Tank Fest you will not really know the people very well. It is just a fact.
If there is something like to see "The Tank Museum" be better at it would be to really show us all the people that makes everything even possible. It might not be something everyone watches. But they should show themselves so we can appreciate every single one of them for what they do! (if they like to)
And us that watch and enjoy should visit and support this grate Historical Charity! They are really trying and making a mark out there and have done so for years!
This subject is something we should never forget as it simply is a reminder of the horror and failure of society to allow a war to even happen! I really do pity other Museums for not doing the same as TTM.
I know Swedish "Arsenalen" have started making videos on UA-cam. But there is a lack of other branches of the military like airplane or whatever else Museums there is. Just sad that we do not get to hear the stories of the machines made to kill each other. Almost every single one has a backstory that reflect the political angle and reasons we ended up pointing guns at someone we where told to be the enemy. It shows of desperate or fear in the construction and design. We should never let something like this happen and for that to be possible we need to know the reasons behind why this thins where built! It is so terrifying that the companies that built this things where given contracts like they where nothing more but a way to make money! How even at war time there is corporate fighting to build killing machines is something we should really remember. And be careful ho we point at and call enemies. There is manipulations from higher up that make us do horrible things. We should NEVER forget that.
I've watched all these, and visited the Tank Museum recently. Thank you for all your wonderful efforts.
Thanks again for making these! Happy 100th awesome video
An iconic inter-war armored car. I've been waiting for this chat
Stunning machine and one I’ve always been fascinated by !
Thanks !
Man, i love David Fletcher. He is easily my favourite!
I have been watching Mr Fletcher talk about tanks and armoured vehicles for a little bit over thirty years now (he was a great expert on the 90s Discovery series Tanks!) and I have always been enamored with his seemingly endless degree of expertise and enthusiasm for the subject matter. Truth be told that he is a good bit of the reason for why I became so interested in the tank in general as a preteen.
I am so glad that the museum decided to get this series going and that the scope is expanded beyond the second world war.
Thank you , Mr Fletcher .
They were allocated to the Home Guard, as David notes. My father, as a teenager, unable to join the regular services drove one in 1940 guarding Barnstaple train station. He was very proud to tell you that he learnt to drive in a Rolls Royce! He then joined the Fleet Air Arm and flew Swordfish and Avengers.
Thanx Mr. Fletcher!
Congratulations Tank Museum team!
". . . his job was to pull on my trousers, hopefully not de-bagging me in the process . . ." (12:47)
I don't know which is more entertaining -- just taking in the wonderfully informative factual commentary, or actively listening for hilarious sidebar observations like the one above. Long story short: David Fletcher is TERRIFIC!
Please do the German half track next
which one?
@@Wolvenworks good question lol
@@CarburetorThompson ikr? there's like, what, 5 of them at least? including the kettentrad.
Good morning. Big congrats on 100. This armored car is downright my favorite. So neat.
There is nothing more majestic than sir Fletcher driving an armored rolls royce.
I love these videos. Fascinating and relaxing! Thank you!
Technically would the driver of this vehicle be called the chauffeur?
If not, it should be
The WAR chauffeur!😁
Congratulations on one hundred Tank Chats!
Great video! Perfect timing for the 100th anniversary.
Congratulations on 100 Tank Chats!
David Fletcher is my absolute favorite narrator of all time.
Interesting to compare the drivers space on the Rolls with the drivers space on a normal combat vehicle. You still get that sense of quality and workmanship.The only thing missing is a little carriage clock.
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Thank you, tank Jesus.
Great information, thank you!
Simply tremendous.
Such a beauty!
for those of you in the USA I ordered some tank slippers (which are awesome ) and it automatically converted my currency and the shipping was very reasonable and they arrived much faster than I thought. So don't hesitate to buy something just because they are across the ocean.
12:02 this has got to be the best part of the whole chat😱
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I do love the Rolls Royce Armoured Car, it's one of my favorite vehicles at the tank museum
Outstanding.
Happy 100th to both the car and David's trousers.
Congratulations on 100 chats! Be well!
Hooray! 100th tank chat with David Fletcher.
I can now see why this is Davids favorite vehicle. Its not the biggest or toughest vehicle, but it damn sure has loads of character.
Finally I thought episode 100 would never release.
Great presentation, really like the presenter. Of course, we will all realise that this was an armoured car to keep subject populations under control, rather than to fight a war such as WWI. So its service was in Ireland, in India and the middle east (can't let go of that oil!). Many thanks to the Tank Museum.
Always enjoy a video from Mr Tank , some great gift ideas in shop there and good quality.
My Grandfather was in the 12th Lancers and used these in Egypt. Its great to find out more about them.
I’ve never really been interested in old armored cars and was expecting this video to be fairy boring but it’s actually very good
Congrats on doing 100 tank chats!
This is a great channel, thank you for all the great videos.
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How Gentlemanly... Going to fight a war in a Rolls Royce....
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This man is awesome 👏