British Heavy Tanks of World War One
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The first tanks to see action were these 'lozenge-shaped' monsters. I went to Bovington Tank Museum to have a look at some. Don't let the opening title put you off.
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Eagle-eyed viewers with good memories may spot that about five minutes of this footage appeared in a video on The Tank Museum's (Bovington) channel a couple of years ago. This video is not about why these tanks are among my favourites (as was the other video) but is instead just talking about the tanks, and this one has several more of them in, whereas the other was just the Mark IV.
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3 years of editing, or... he's only just got home from the tank museum
Its the latter. Look at his hair.
During the open hours in the museum, all other hours where spent on sleeping, cleaning, eating and editing... For 3 whole years
He slept in the tanks
This video is so old that the Tank Museum was still called the Bovington Tank Museum.
He's still there... He uses the side of a tank as a green screen some of the time.
I love that tourists are just walking around the museum getting a free presentation from Lindy
what a treat that would be!
I would stop in my tracks and just watch Loyd do his thing. He is an amazing lecturer, I think I could listen to him discuss the history of toast.
Misplaced Hillbilly do you often drive a tank through a war museum? 😉
If only they were listening. They haven't figured out that there is a video being taken! You know what they say about tourists, right?
20:35 Hello kid
people walking past: "how does this homeless guy know so much about tanks from ww1?"
Obvously he is a WWI Veteran.
@uncletigger This isn't the time Wellington where you can get the artist to embellish how fantastique your hair is! There are cameras, man!
I once visited a pioneer village / living museum with a group of college students. Shortly after, a bus load of Mennonites all dressed in homespun showed up and joined our tour group winding its way through the 1830’s village. After the tour, one of the students, a complete idiot, looked over to the Mennonites, turned to me and said “man, it must have cost a FORTUNE to hire all those re-enactors!”
He did live at the tank museum for at least 3 years. You pick things up.
Lol. "Mommy, he's scaring me"..."Quiet down Timmy, don't stare"
“This video took three years to make” - I bet when you started you thought it would be over by Christmas
Hehehoho
Well Lindybeige does not rush anything. I've been waiting for In Search of Hannibal for 6 years.
Lol
Brilliant
About half of the footage shown here on the Mark IV appeared in an earlier video about my favourite tanks, shown on Bovington's own channel: The Tank Museum. This video uses that material and much more to paint a more comprehensive picture of British heavy tanks of WW1.
say that again?
@@cmankows About half of the footage shown here on the Mark IV appeared in an earlier video about my favourite tanks, shown on Bovington's own channel: The Tank Museum. This video uses that material and much more to paint a more comprehensive picture of British heavy tanks of WW1.
@@lindybeige one more time? didnt quite catch that
@@lindybeige lindy we love you
@@lindybeige yea, though so... thank god im not going crazy yet
I went to skip the ad, almost skipped one of the funniest things ive seen in a while. What a thrilling saga of the craddle!
Glad you liked it. When editing these things at three in the morning to a fast-approaching deadline, it isn't easy to tell how it will be perceived. Thankfully, the sponsor saw the funny side.
@@lindybeige you sir should take the absolute piss and have an academia cradle Olympic championship.
Lindybeige I just started watching this video but I can’t believe I’m saying that I’m actually excited to watch the ad!
@@lindybeige best ad break I've ever seen on youtube. Second place goes to Mark Felton doing raid shadow legends.
@@lindybeige Easily one of the best running bits on the channel
“That’s where the pigeons come in...” did not expect that.
One way for troops to communicate with the tankers was to go around to the back of the thing, and pull a rope, which was connected to a bell, and they'd ring for the commander to come open the back for a chat.
Nobody expects the English pigeons!
"We didn't receive any messages and Captain Blackadder definitely did not shoot the delicious plump breasted pigeon, sir." -- Pvt. Baldrick and Lt. George, separately.
@@duckman12569 But what if german soldiers sneaked behind tank and pulled a rope?
@@ScienceDiscoverer I think the infantry were close support for if that happened. Perhaps they had an eye-slit to check first
Man I watched this whole thing, I want a whole series of ALL TANKS!!
THREE YEARS?!?! Man, it shows, it's a great fucking video. So good.
Oh hi Matt.
@@mcolville wow, didn't expect to see you here! Haha
Hi, Matt!
It's Matt Coville!
To hear " tanks from a hundred years ago " I think was the most shocking part. I've concluded I must be getting old.
When I was a kid, World War 1 veterans were still quite common. Soon, my birthday will be closer to the end of World War 2 than the present.
How about "tanks from the last millenium"
@@UltramanII well we only got to wait another 977 years :)
2017, Lindy travels to Bovington with the idea of making a video about tanks and thinks to himself: "It will be out by Christmas".
In 2018, tells the camera operator "One more big filming day, and we'll be editing before you know it, then we can finally go home."
3:20 I bet he was thinking... 'Decide where you're going or I'm going to take one of these sticks and beat you with it!'
Perfect example of Asian 'photographer' courtesy
I bet he has corona now.
@@lilwitchschierke2530 this was recorded in 2017 dog
3:04 "a very dense bundle of sticks", It's like you ran my nickname from high school through a thesaurus.
Can we take guesses? I'm going for "thick as a post" 😜
I'm fairly sure I know what it is, and if it is in fact that, then it is an extremely offensive curse word.
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I’m going to go On a stretch here and say that the Icelandic translation for tank is the greatest, the name being skriðdreki and the translation being crawling dragon.
No stretch here, mate. Thats just metal
That's pretty brutal
When Icelanders call a tank THAT, I can see why Iceland does not have tanks.
DRAKKARIS! Also flamethrower tanks really looking and functioning like non-flying dragons!
That's pretty fucking sick actually.
It must have been absolutely terrifying to see these coming towards you in combat. There is something distinctly alien about the appearance of early tanks, and seeing these approach you at a crawl, with the engine growling, treads clanking, and grinding, and guns firing... must have felt about as close to being attacked by an alien invasion as possible.
I believe war of the world's was inspired by ww1 weaponry and vehicles.
@@BigWheel. No, war of the worlds was published in 1899 world War 1 began in 1914.
or Roman legion troops facing Hannibal's elephants
9:45 It looks kinda comfy in there when you're alone, I can't imagine how crowded it'd be with actual people in there
"Actual people" as opposed to Lindybiege?
I went inside this Mark IV on a tour with some friends and personally I didn't think it was too bad. Probably would've been worse if the engine was red hot and filled with smoke but I personally think it was alright.
jtan163 lmao u know what he meant.
Huh didn't know you watched lindy
Garrison Nichols “everywhere”
Recorded three years ago, I thought that hairline looked a bit to far forward for 2020 lloyd. Well you know what they say grass doesn't grow on a busy street.
also his beard looked more trimmed in some of the shots.
It's not easy to tend to your appearance when you're hiding in a tank museum for three years. He can only shave when the night watchman calls in sick.
@@johnladuke6475 not easy? He is the watchman.
Lindy: "You maybe be wondering what this great big bundle of sticks on the top is!" Me: "LMAO YEAH it's called a FA-" Lindy: "Its a Fascine!" Me: "...yes..a fascine.."
I found that fascinating
Actually the reason why Fascists are called Fascists is due to that very bundle of sticks. The world's first Fascists were not German but Italian. Mussolini called his party Fascist as a sort of political message. The Italian for the bundle of sticks is (sorry my Italian spelling is shonky) is Fascisti. Mussolini decided that he should call his party Fascist because one stick on it's own would not do berry much but a bundle together would not easily bend or break. He put that thought towards people one person couldn't do very much but together on a group could do anything.
OlagGan it was one of the symbols of the Roman State, the Fasces were bundles of rods wrapped around an axe, symbolising the authority to punishment, corporal or capital.
OlagGan It was part of Mussolini’s attempt to connect his political movement to Ancient Rome
@@OlagGan The bundle of sticks, with an axe or hatchet in the middle is an ancient symbol of Rome. In the Republican era, in times of civil unrest, I believe the Consul would take the hatchet, cut the chords that bound the sticks, and then the sticks would be given to ad hoc "police" (his political henchmen, or clientela, (my latin may be off) and the sticks, more like rods, would be used to bash some quiet into people.
A truly great, amusing ad for "The Great Courses"!
Genius method of keeping me watching
yes :-)
For what it's worth, the Bradley hasn't had gun ports for a hot minute- the M2A2 version did away with that in 1988. You may also be interested to know that those ports weren't designed to use the infantryman's M16, they used the M231 Firing Port Weapon, a modified version of the M16 that fired from an open bolt, had the buttstock removed, and had no sights. They were supposed to be aimed by walking tracer ammunition to the target, but a combination of only using standard 30-round mags and the blisteringly high fire rate of an open bolt meant they were virtually useless, which is why they were done away with just 7 years after they were introduced.
TFW the Pentagon can't get a design that takes Soviet concepts right and creates a useless extra firearm to do what a rifle is supposed to do on an overly tall vehicle just to get get ride of it because it's useless
Plus even the old ones that have firing ports are more vestigial than anything, considering the up-armoring panels block them
@@MrWarlord396 This. The Pentagon has what you might call intellecc
@chris younts You mean $10 billion? Also, completely agree with you on the outcome. Why pay soldiers more or support welfare programs when you can spend the money on programs that don't pan out and then complain about not having enough money
@chris younts You still could be. Nothing like cost overrun and mission creep on procurement projects. Don't forget the repeat cancellation of projects because although the end product is better, it's impossible to meet the original standards (see M16/M4 replacement attempts). Don't worry sir, they all start off easy and small for the most part
Fascine, he says. We all know what a bundle of sticks is actually called.
And the basis of the political her Fascist- all bundled together!
who would've thought they would put giant cigarettes on tanks
@@gregwarner3753 "Fascio" is actually base word for fascism. Fascio in italian also means "trade union". Fascism is trade unionism, organising society into gigantic trade unions inside corporate state ("sindacato", so sindicalism).
20:40 Hi!
Madlad
Although the kid (Im also a kid) seems to respect him taking some space for some recording.
“I like the color of his jacket.” I see what you did there.
Lindybeige!! Dude... I love your digressions and silliness with all the hysterical historical historicity.
I personally love the history behind the first world war above the second, its just so intriguing when the old world meets the new world. Tanks with pidgeons for messaging or massive assaults like warfare of old, or cavalry with modern guns. The whole concept of the industrialisation and aspects of life before and no one really understood how to best use it all atleast initially. However for all that its also one of the most horrifying, grusome and horrible wars that took place in human history.
Only 53c? Pfft, we passed that temp mid-morning in Iraq. Love the early tank coverage and I'm blown away that it's been 100 years since the first coordinated tank attack.
The hottest day I remember in N.Y was 37°c (central ny)
Seeing the inside conditions, it's kind of amazing that these were considered as "land ships" and not "Land submarines". A tank and a submarine seem really interchangeable in terms of the inside-experience...
I love how you used a clip from your "Top 5 Tanks". Very interesting. Tanks for the video
I got really confused and thought the usual deja vu I have
The MkVIII international is the tank in Indiana Jones was based on, but with a fictional turret added. Though it’s depicted on screen as lot more spacious inside I imagine.
Looked up, “Proffesor’s Cradle” to see if it’s a real thing. I think Lindybeige made it up, which makes it even more amusing.
It's scholar's cradle, and yes it's an actual thing
I'm waiting a full video from Lindybeige just reviewing Scholar's Cradles of various presentations.
There are varying names but it's relatively well known
Frosting With Cookies OMG I tried so many things; “Proffesors cradle”, “Proffesors Magic Fingers”, “Teachers Cradle”, “Speakers cage” and couldn’t find anything. Finally got results with Scholars Cradle, thanks.
Might have helped to spell it correctly
24:06 Lloyd surprises a small child with his enthusiasm for history
I saw movement in the background and thought, "oh no, Lloyd has put it in neutral and it is moving. 6:35
I see you are a fan of the "Showtime gun". Aka Vera. AKA saiga 12.
@@GunFunZS You Bet.
@@SiberianSwordsman if you have not tried one without the costuming, you should. They are superb.
You've got to remember that many germans never seen a car, so to see this on the battlefield also had a psychological effect as they were unbeatable and you felt defeated before it could even machine gun your position. And for this reason tanks in WWI were very effective.
And yet that is in fact not true. No great breakthrough, or victory was achieved by the tanks.
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 they were pretty effective when used correctly. Their problems came from the fact noone knew how to use a tank in combat
@@pilot1721 Partly so, yes. Partly from being extremely unvieldy and unrelyable, and partly from not yet having reached a combat effective form.
@@pilot1721 I agree with you. As tank warfare was a new principle the militaries that used them experienced some teething problems which would be ironed out in the 20s and 30s and used to much success in WWII.
@@pilot1721 The Hundred Days’ Offensive owed much of its success to tanks, as the attacks that lacked them accomplished nothing, while the tanks broke through in multiple areas. It's hard to call an attack that imploded the German army anything less than a victory.
Me: already watching a Lindybeige Video Lindybeige: *posts new video* Me: *instantly clicks*
Foxtrot Delta that's funny it happened to me as well
keep us informed.
Gotta love how people are walking right in front of the camera while someone is filming.
Listening to lloyd talk about scholar's cradle is the best thing ever
You leave a guy in a Tank museum and he NEVER leaves.
I LOVE the scholar’s cradle commentary!
I remember being allowed to wander around inside a WW1 tank at Bovington 60 to 62 years ago. It wasn't as sophisticated then. No dioramas. It was a great day out.
I was yesterday seeking if you have any videos about mark 1, 4 and rest tanks of that series, and was incredibly happy to find this video out today! Thank you!
Absolutely brilliant as always, love the jumper, it's got to be your favourite. Thank you for your work as always. 👍👍👍⚔⚒☠
*Sabaton's Future of Warfare blaring in my head*
@@x-s-d-f-g-h----- 32 will lead the way
COMING OVER TRENCH AND WIRE
Going through the endless grey
A desolate wasteland....
@@char2c584 infernal depiction of Hell
1:17 Indie Neidell recently said on Sabaton History that the name came from lying to bureaucrats about the use of materials in order not to draw attention to the experiments. Supposedly they said it was for water tanks and the name stuck.
Indy is about as reliable as Lindy. IE not very.
@@AdamMann3D Regardless of the relative reliability of either source, that is in fact accurate.
They could have been "Cisterns," because that was the proposed name for Britain's Secret Weapon of The Great War.
College got me to busy to be up today with these videos but im taking time to watch them now and i just though it was time for my annual lindybeige encouragement and appreciation comment. I love this channel so much. Its what foils my love for history. It also gave me to high fo expectations on how fun lectures are. I have a lot of history teacher that make me fall asleep
I don't think I will ever get tired of hearing you talk about stuff! I really enjoyed this, especially having recently started playing Battlefield 1 in which vehicles like this are used frequently.
I'm convinced more British soliders were killed trying to operate this tank than it killed the enemy because of how it was designed with where the engine was and the atrocious air system or lack there of.
"Nothing illustrates how primitive things were in here than the fact they haven't invented the idea of putting the engine in a separate compartment"... well there is also the communication by pigeons, which seems actually a step down from Game Of Thrones.
And the gas and the noise and exhaust.. Not a great career choice.
Ravens are smart but I don’t think you can count on them delivering a message for you. I may wrong though.
Buck Hulit They were pigeons which are a million times less smart than a Raven and still surprisingly worked very well. They had a 95 percent success rate.
@@liam-vl4um Yes they extremely smart, which leads me to believe they won’t deliver the message. Rather they’ll fly away to go do whatever pleases them. There’s a reason ravens weren’t used to carry messages. This isn’t GoT
Yes, they are a step down from a fictitious world setting that has magic and dragons.
Holy hell, incredible job. This should be on The Great Courses Plus!
Facing one of these as a foot soldier in a trench invokes images of fighting a dragon of old. Truly awe-inspiring.
Mugger: your money or your life Lindy: I'm going to make you somewhat uncomfortable 5:33
Proceeds to beat him up
2:30 Fascinating!
First time I've ever heard of the timber use to get the tank unstuck. Great Vid. Thanks LB.
Always happy to see a new video from Lloyd
2:02 One would not, in fact, find a sponson "on a dreadnought of old." By the time HMS Dreadnought was conceived of, much less built, Royal Navy battleships had ceased mounting guns in sponsons and had largely switched to armored turrets. Sponsons are thus a feature of *pre*-Dreadnought warships, especially early pre-dreadnoughts.
HMS Orion had sponson style guns mounted on her superstructure. Other nations utilized them even more, with quite a few Japanese dreadnoughts having sponsons below deck level. I even believe the USA continued putting sponson secondary guns on their cruisers up until the end of WW2. They weren't as useful as turrets and weren't used for main guns, but sponsons were definitely used on dreadnoughts.
Well it doesn't have to be mounted in a sponson that sticks out. It could just be mounted in the hull, casement secondaries !
queen elizabeths had them originally didn't they?
@@alexanderd8740 Casemates and sponsons aren't the same thing. Sponsons project outward from the side of a ship, whereas casemates are contained within the hull.
@@b-chroniumproductions3177 You're thinking of casemates, not sponsons.
Tanks for the video
wow
Hey Lloyd, You ever see the Philosopher's Wave? It is when you gesture with a single outstretched hand with the palm up to emphasize your subject matter, almost in an appeal to an unknown cosmic force.
I love you Lindybeige, phenomenal videos.
When he said he takes long to edit I didn't think it was *3 years* .
Hey, Hugh Elles did't marry 10 times, that was a edit by DankestWarrior on wikipedia in November of 2019, he married 3 times, I've edited this back
Because eventually any man would give up on getting married yet again, except Larry King or Henry VIII.
Great Vid Lloyd, loved it. Learned a lot of new things. Thank you
Your input on hand gestures is brilliant 👌
The dialogue sounds identical when lindybeige filmed him top five tanks quite a while ago. Hmm 🤔
I hope you’ll reach one million soon.
You are one of my favorite content creators on youtube. Thank you !
Brilliant video once again. I love your enthusiasm it’s makes your posts something special.
The music in the background is 'I vow to Thee My Country', particularly this version by Geoff Knorr: kzhead.info/sun/a5uRm9ZwsWWieKc/bejne.html
lol, I was thinking it was Band of Brothers.
Makes this already very British video a hundred times more patriotic! Strictly speaking, when purely instrumental as here this tune is actually an extract from Gustav Holst's Jupiter. "I Vow To Thee My Country" is merely one of the later lyrical versions set to the original instrumental piece.
3:20 The very confused looking random guy just adds to this video.
im at the part where Lloyd is doing an ad pitch at around 15:36 and he's judging the lecturers body language, specifically their hand movements and im literally trying not to scream with laughter. this guy is flipping brilliant. just an absolute treasure. he's truly a triumph for mankind. thank you for the hysterical fits of maniacal laughter Lloyd.
Three years to make perfection is time very well spent. Thanks lindy!
3:21 what’s wrong with you, mate? Pay attention haha
Fuzzy Ewok oblivious!
Aisans.
If it were build by the navy, why they didn´t use the "Engine order telegraph" system to order the engine operator.
Lindybeige, another great video man, thumbs up! The following paragraph might seem a bit unrelated but ill write it anyway. Im a subscriber of your channel for quite some time now and ive seen that you have done a marvelous job at covering many aspects of ancient history and in particular ancient warfare but i wasnt able to find anything relating specifically to the clash of Roman and Macedonian Empires in the Battle of Pydna, and i think it would be a very interesting subject for a future video, and given that most of your videos are quite lenghty, i think this channel is the perfect place for a talk about it. If you ever get to read this suggestion, that on its own is already a big reason to thank you!
Almost a million subs my dude! This is amazing. What a journey.
16:55 You recorded this in 2017 and now are publishing it in 2020, 3 years later? Gee, and here I thought I was a procrastinator.
Ben Turner - ‘They call me a procrastinator, if you don’t know what that is I’ll tell you later’.
Well he did have to wait for the perfect scholars cradle to talk about.
Are you ok? 3weeks of silence?
Lindybeige...your back catalogue is INSANE.
Far too late, and I never thought I was going to watch it all the way through..and then found myself having a pleasant LOL to conclude it all. Many thanks, LB!
I bet he never left the tank museum, he's actually set up a fake room in a broom closet to look like he's at home when in reality he's been living in the track well of a Panzer.
@chris younts I'd probably do that if I ever got a chance. :C
I always thought that giant wheel on the Mark I was supposed to help it cross trenches. Prove my assumption wrong!!!
I had been told by that authoritative source "someone" that it was to keep the tank from rolling backwards if they tried to tackle a slope that was just too much.
John La Duke I actually like that reasoning. Modern day Dragsters have wheelie bars for that exact same reason. The idea that wheel helped to steer the tank just doesn’t jive in my mind.
I don't commit much on your channel but the kids waving was priceless! I'm lost on the hand gestures you was taking about I'm interested in learning. You do a great job in your videos.
Than you! I really enjoy your tank reviews!
fascine-ating XD
Ha nice
Henry Eakins 👌
you beat me to it XD
I salute you, sir!
And I figured the sponsor might be world of tanks, description shows I was in error.
Thanks for taking the time.
Love your content man keep up the great work
Germans didn't have tanks. A7V: allow me to introduce myself
Sudarshan Pujari At the Battle of Cambrai?
Beutepanzers too
Nonsense. The longer MkV's are for wedding parties and going to night clubs.
Your videos are the only ones where is dont skip the sponsor part all the time. Other content creators didnt figure out how to make em entertaining, but you Sir are brilliant! :)
thank you for sharing your knowledge with all your efforts for free!!! really benefitted lots of people!!!
Oh. When I saw the thumbnail, I'd read "British Beauty Tanks". "Heavy Tanks" makes more sense. 53 C= 130 F. Yikes! All right either the exterier shots make it look smaller, the interier ones make it look bigger or the dratted thing is the inspiration for the TARDIS.
@chris younts No. I don't know why it would be. I know she was known as the Iron Lady, but that's more natural to a Bismark reference.
1:12 that tank looks like jimmy hendrix to me
Hahaha!
This type of tank was a real danger to the enemy. It destroyed dugouts, pillboxes, pretty much everything all along the watchtower.
What could be more appropriate to accompany the opening to a video about loud and heavy machines more than loud and heavy music? I think you nailed it Lindybeige.
The first tanks were made by a company in the English city of Lincoln called Fosters, a company known for making farming machinery. The company and those workers, directly involved were told, to not tell anyone about the ‘Land Ships’. According to the story I was given many years by the people at Fosters. A visitor asked what are those big water tanks were for. An engineer who had just read a newspaper article of the importance of getting water into the front line, just said yes it’s a tank. And this became a cover story, right up to the point of going into action. Must have been disappointing to those Tommies. Grabbing kettles and teapots to get a good brew on. Fun fact: The Tommies would Fire machine guns each evening because they were water cooled. The water boiled quickly and was used to make the tea. However oil in the gun often spoilt the Tea. Should they be short of water, military ordered the Tommies to pee in the gun’s water jacket. Any soldier peeing in the platoon kettle would have been very unpopular. So those water tanks were needed.
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16:50 End of excessively long sponsor plug.
Thank you!
To learn that tanks were originally land ships created by the British Navy fills me with much pride as a US Navy veteran.
That's the bestest utube advert I have ever seen, cudos to you Lindy
Last time I was this early I actually made a joke about being early.
1:06 "Do you know what the word Russians use to call tanks?" "Tanks." Well, as a Mandarin speaker I know that it also works in Mandarin, but that somehow got me laughing.
Good job with the video, it's informational and interesting to watch! I will not pretend to understand how much work you have put in to this video but sir I salute you!
Thanks for another fantastic and informative video..