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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

192. Tank Trilogy

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Al Murray and James Holland explore a Second World War British ambulance as well as a vehicle kitted out as a mobile listening centre which reported from France and Holland to Bletchley Park. To enjoy the weekly We Have Ways livestream join our members club for £6 a month using the link below. Members get free audiobooks, discounts from Waterstones, first chance to book live events, battleground visits and the increasingly infamous Thursday evening live show: Patreon.com/wehaveways A Goalhanger Films production Produced by Harry Lineker  Exec Producer Tony Pastor Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

achtung achtung a reminder that tonight's live stream first day October the 1st is available

0:08.5

to everyone not just members join us at 830 for a double bill of gurgle box that's when we all

0:15.2

watch band of brothers together followed by live version of the we have ways podcast and here's

0:20.9

the fun part you get to ask us questions or make outrageous comments live yes live the link for

0:28.8

the live stream is on the front page of our website we have ways pod dot com or you can find it

0:35.4

on twitter at we have ways pod or at almary or at james 1940 see you tonight no dress code but if

0:44.3

I were you I'd bring a bottle

0:54.8

achtung achtung welcome to we have ways of making you talk yet again james holen deni here in

1:04.0

a treasure trove of a veritable aladins cave of olive drab and dark green stuff james it's amazing

1:13.8

you know we were a bit blown away by all the tanks and of course they they're the sexy things

1:17.4

and we get excited about it is but what I love about what what what tobin got here is is just the

1:23.6

range of british trucks now you know this is a quad is obviously I have my dodge which is american but

1:29.6

but yeah we've got morris commercial here we've got another we've got an ambulance here we've got a

1:34.8

guy is that an ant guy quad ant a guy quad ant so this is for specifically designed for toeing

1:42.2

it's a field artillery tractor a fat as they call them and in fact guy

1:47.2

um crow created the thing it's a very short wheelbase got a powerful winch on board the engine is

1:53.2

is the most unlikely engine and it's a meadows four cylinder quite advanced in some ways in that

1:59.0

it was an overhead valve but it was about engine there's another lot else you can say about it

2:04.9

that's good um widen squat yeah isn't it it's really wide yeah very squat it doesn't like a like a

2:12.9

like an ant it looks more like a like one of those sort of stink bugs well you know what I mean

2:17.9

yeah the ant some of these vehicles were called beetle backs yeah it wasn't naming it after the

2:24.3

insect it was the guys numerical numbering system for or letter system for how they categorized the

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