The Matilda Diaries Part 1 | The Tank Museum

It's really nice to see an arts council or something of the sort actually funding something like this for a change. Something that actually needs money and has real effort put into it. Not like some lazy bums that just paint a couple blue lines on a canvas and make up some BS theory on what it represents. Projects like this are awesome!

Excellent work for history. The Matilda was once the undisputed queen of the battlefield.

I just found this. I’m so upset that I haven’t known about these videos years ago. What gems I have finally found.

This series is going to be essential viewing. Great video and the fitter did an excellent job presenting. BTW for non English speakers a fitter is what you call a mechanic of big stuff like trucks and tanks.

So glad to see the restoration will be video recorded.

nice to see how they don't just strive to make the tanks look good on the outside but also on the inside and keeping these amazing pieces of history running like they used to when they were built to protect the country.

I look forward to seeing some nitty-gritty on this stuff! I've seen some other tank restoration videos but they usually skip over every detail and interesting piece and you end up seeing a bunch of nothing.

thanks for all the work you are doing to restoring the tanks so the public and learn about them :-)

That workshop sounds like the kind of place I could spend weeks at and never be bored, so much to learn :)

Seeing this really gives you an appreciation for how difficult these must have been to manufacture. So many different parts, and almost all fitted in place by hand! Would be quite challenging just to keep track of them all!

This was awesome. Thanks for doing vids like these. Makes me really wish I got into working with my hands and doing cool jobs like this. Must be far more satisfying than my desk job.

Combining my love for all things mechanical, restoration, history and tanks into one series. Awesome!

This was very entertaining to watch guys, more of this! :)

Thank you for the video, it was excellent to see the levels of expertise that is required to restore the vehicles

One of the best channels on utube, fascinating stuff as per, cheers for uploading.

Can't wait to see more videos like this! Hopefully we'll see more diaries on the other amazing machines the Tank Museum has!

What an amazing project, I love the Matilda, it's such a cool tank for it's time (pity about not firing HE though) and to get to see you guys restore it over time and in such detail is a real treat. I love seeing how things work and how others solve problems so I can't tell you how happy I am about this being on Youtube. Watching other tank restorations is great but I'm always wishing for more detail so I have high hopes for this project. Thanks so much for going to the effort and expense of sharing it with us. You guys are are brilliant. I love Tank chats too of course but they are always over to fast and I always want more.

Entertaining, educational and interesting. What more could the Tank Museum want? Nice vid guys. I'm looking forward to more of these technical type vids from your good selves. Hopefully you'll be showing us exactly how a Matilda II works. The two engines into one gearbox for a start. The steering/braking mechanisms etc.etc.

Good Job, like to follow these series! :) please do keep using from the workshop itself, its nice to see one of the actual mechanics doing the telling and showing!

The Matilda's one of my favorite tanks, and I can't wait to see it in the tank museum. Hopefully one day it can work there :)