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Great video. Sucks that none of the Alectos survive.

woohoo! my name up in lights - again! haha thanks, ed! this was most informative! hm, my idea today for a video might be jungle-clearing vehicles of WW2, but there might not be enough photos available for presentation. how about ecclesiastical-named vehicles? some might require their own video, but how about the deacon? was that the first? thanks again!

I'd love to see a series of videos on the later Vicker's MBTs, Mk.3, 3i, 4, 7, 7/2!

6:55 'And this is bollocks' --- Something I think David Fletcher would like to say sometimes :-D

Can you do a video about the Archer self propelled anti tank gun? As it is a very unusual DESIGN.

Fascinating story, thank you for sharing.

Fascinating technical word ( ballocks ) Thanks for such a brilliant history lesson of this forgotten vehicle.

Superb content..just subscribed. The Chieftain led me here..😁

Big up the Farnborough shout out

Glad to be subscriber number 1000

It looks like a hull with great potential as an early APC. Either wheeled or tracked.

Priceless and extremely rare video on KZfaq. I would love to have some more of these instead of the stupid grey hounds vs king tiger myths out there.

a refreshing set of docs not continually telling the wrong info and repeated stories, like no 2pr HE rounds ect nice lot of not seen before pics as well.

I always wonder if they had been available for the Arnhem drop, would they have made a difference, especially when they were trying break through to Bridge as resistance stiffened. Cleary all the other factors that impacted on operation would have still be there, but a few Alectos fire HE in the direct fire roll might even the odds a little.

Very neat stuff, thanks.

The phrase "groundnut scheme" rises from the back of my memory....

i love the alecto in WT its very fun

Thanks, your videos are priceless.

Good stuff

"... and this is bollocks" lol - is that a tech term? 😆😆😆

Imagine these running about doing recce jobs with a 6pdr or a 25pdr to use against enemy snoopers.

Intereting Video and Vehicle

excellent vid.

What a great looking machine

Can you review the IS-7?

I have not heard of that case mate centurion before. I cant find that much about it.

Great video. Two points. The British army was ridiculous slow at development of new vehicles. The need for a self propelled anti tank gun was identified within days of fighting beginning in 1940. How much of a game changer would large numbers of the 6lb armed Alecto's deployed to North Africa have been? Mobile, hard hitting and extremely easy to conceal. Secondly, pronunciation. Like everyone else on KZfaq, you say "Els'wick" when it's pronounced "Els'ick" with the silent 'w'.

Nice commuter vehicle .

You’re doing for tanks what Ed Nash is doing for aircraft. Crack on!

A command version with a Vickers machine gun would be cool. If i wanted to build one, where would i find technical plans ?

Aaah the use of "bollox's" to clarify the point once and for all!

Is it plan to do some french tanks ? Like AMX 50, AMX 13 or Lorraine 40t ?

You need to do a video on the British Archer. Such as the one you mentioned in the video.

I do love your means of addressing inaccuracies... "THIS IS BOLLOX..." - coffeesnot moment there.

Could you do a video on the British "Neptune" LVT?

blackpool airport the alecto was parked im sure it were next to the light tank .

Do you plan to cover the TOG 2? It's a very misunderstood vehicle :)

Ecto-1

4:50 4400 rpm? that sounds a bit too much...

The poor old driver looks a bit exposed. Not sure the plastic windscreen would improve his sense of vulnerability too much!

Hey what type of tank is this tank destroyer or self propelled gun?

Obviously I gotta say it but "gaijin when?"

The russians developed the ASU-57, very similar, to support their paras

WOT has Alecto's ...

and it looks like they ran into the same crap when they tried all diffrent gubbins when makin the british airborne/mountain light gun 95mm .

and im sure one was parked in the corner next to a light tank at blackpool an alecto i mean ,and sure one was the back end of them cocklers truck tractor things wat used to be parked on the front in morecombe ,blackpool,fleetwood..

Geeze. Take the gun out and use the chassis as a far more mobile Universal Carrier.

" Harry Hopkins", named after an american, and yet, the most british thing ive ever heard.

"And this is bollocks...." C' Mon - tell us what you really think...

Good vid... on a piece of junk! Oddly, I got massie scores on WoT with this vehicle....

So a now shit hole Hotel helped make a wonderfully rediculous SPG. Typical really.