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The Australian Armour & Artillery Museum has a number of really great videos on YouTube. They restore and display some of the most iconic vehicles of the World Wars. The Grant tank being one of them. If you chase that link under the opening photo you can watch an hour and a half long video of the restoration of a Grant tank.
While working on that vehicle they had teams looking for parts to restore it, amazingly enough, they found another Grant tank.
A barn find!
Their Workshop Wednesday videos are awesome, I learn something every time I watch one. Here's a taste of those videos ...
Great stuff.
I spend a lot of time on their page, if you like armor and artillery, you should too.
Enjoy!
Oh noes.........armor videos......welp.... there goes the day Sarge!
ReplyDeleteAnd there are a lot of them over there, be prepared!
DeleteThe Haunted Tank was a favorite comic back in the day..
ReplyDeleteMine as well!
DeleteVery cool, Sarge!
ReplyDeletejuvat
I loved watching them go through all the pieces and parts discovering new treasures at every turn.
DeleteBut....I gotta admit, my favorite picture of a tank is my gun camera film with the pipper on it and the in range indicator says "Shoot"!
DeleteJust sayin'
juvat
So you were a distributor of tank parts, in a sense.
Delete"Frozen deep South" that resonates with the last week here in NE Florida!
ReplyDeleteL.J.
Friend of mine provided pictures, one day in the pool, next day ice all over everything!
DeleteI do! I do! They are great, and I can even understand most of what they are saying.
ReplyDeleteI was spoiled. We had a [filthy rich] guy in our parts who collected military vehicles, with maybe 100 tanks and military vehicles, many in a large building (about 200' x 300") to hold his collection. He had a full time restoration magician who did marvelous work so most of the collection was operational. As a patriotic gent he would routinely have veterans celebrations on the 4th of July, inviting all vets (hundreds of them) for cookout, tank demonstration crushing cars in the parking lot, fireworks, etc. Heck of a nice guy. When he passed away, most of his collection was purchased by the folks in DuBois, WY National Museum of Military Vehicles, and the Collings Foundation American Heritage Museum in Hudson, MA. I think a private collector in Missoula, MT may have gotten a few crumbs as well. Both those places are MUST SEE! (Hint- road trip for any and all Chanters... individually or en masse.)
Alan Cors (no relation to the beer folks) has/had a similar impressive collection and annual events in Virginia.
Thanks to everyone who does that sort of stuff.
John Blackshoe
Amen, they are saving precious bits of history!
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