Museum of Historic Military Vehicles (And Aerotrains!) Faces Demolition 

Ah you're absolutely right Daniel. Christophe told me that the half-track "belonged to La Nueve, who fought against Franco" and in my head, I understood that the vehicle itself fought against Franco. But I realise now that's not quite what he was saying. Thank you for the correction.

@@TheTimTraveller Thus proving that the quickest way to find the truth on the internet is to post something incorrect and await the person who comes to correct you! Always faster than asking for the answer to a question lol!

@@ceecrb1 Hooray for pedantry!

@@ceecrb1 Whilst I begrudgingly acknowledge the truth of what you say, I fear that you are sailing perilously close to the annoying habit of a very large proportion of fellow You Tubers who happen to be under the age of forty. That is to say, those lazy barstewards who post a question with no intention of expending even the tiniest effort to find out the answer themselves. More often than not, it'll not only be in the comments, but those posted really recently. These morons are a product of the style of pussy-footing education systems around the world of late and to an extent know no better. How they get through life with this little intuition is beyond me. In fact, I'm off now to look it up.

I do hope they find a home.

Similarly here, at this moment I have 0 free warehouses near Paris, however, I know someone who also doen't have any

Seems like a good way to get demonetized, though. Not good for revenues to donate.

Loved hearing ABBA then very appropriate

@@perekman3570 thats just Tim on his keyboard lol not the actual song

Thank you!

Just for thr sake of curiosity, how old are you? I'm in my lates 30s, just got home from an hour drive to the nearest city and feel this avoidance thqt you mention.

If they open a museum where you can go for a drive in one of the vehicles. I think they would have a great method of funding it. I would totally want to go for a ride on one.

@@dodaexplodathey did that. All the vehicles work and were used for parades and stuff. And you could help them and work in them as a volunteer and go for rides

@@PatricioGarcia1973 oh,I believe it. I'm just thinking it would be cool if that was part of the museum. In Ontario Canada we have a warplane museum and you can buy tickets to fly in the old warplanes. They would need to find a museum space which facilitated them taking the vehicles on trips. Like a nice sized pond to drive amphibious vehicles through. They could probably do like 5-10 trips a day and sell tickets for them. You also need to make sure your fleet can handle it.

Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Wikipedia are busy censoring all Fascism from the Internet to prepare the world for a wonderful new central government and economy. It is up to all us to support them and spread this censorship to the real world. Once everyone has united under one flag there will no more need for vehicles like this or for anyone to remember that they existed.

This is what happens when your government doesn't give a s*** about history. All modern day museums are just a tourist trap.

Inspiration! Going to try tagging them in this.

idea! contact J-Leno! I know he has no connections to france, but I'm sure this would be a cause he could get behind.

@@CouchPotator If you know how to send a message to him please do so. Or, if you’re going to put a comment on one of his videos, suggest picking one about historical cars or trucks. I tried putting on on a video about 8 months ago about a car/truck combo.

@@CouchPotator Most likely in his case, he'd be willing to save them in the final hour to add to his own collection in LA. I doubt he has interest in opening a museum in France. However, He probably does have connections in France, though most likely they're all Entertainment Industry and not Transportation/Logistics. He might know someone with the means and/or desire to open a museum in France.

The last place these historic vehicles belong is in some rich talk show host's private collection, never to be seen by the public again. Not even in the country they belong in.

Art this point, it's become a tradition for a Tim Traveller video to play "recognize the tune". This time, it's "SOS" by ABBA.

@@Goldfire-tt3dv We also get the BBC theme tune just before the UNIVEM president speaks

Thank you!

@@TheTimTraveller Hi, I live in South West France, near Rochefort (i am also retired military). There is a naval aviation museum in Rochefort, next to the Ecole de Gendarmerie Nationale. There are plenty of buildings, garages and hangers that are empty i believe. I know its not Paris, but its a safe place until a closer location to the present one is found. I am sure the military vehicle association members will be listened to favourably by people of like mind. Worth a try!

*Gendarmerie

@@conhand.3578 predictive text, its a real pain.

@@gunner678 what about Citu du Train? its a rail museum

Sérieux, j'aimerais vraiment des vidéos en français de la part de Tim. Je suis francophone du Canada et, ayant été en France, l'expérience en tant que personne qui parle français mais sans un accent de la République est assez fascinante et pourrait créer du contenu intéressant.

Unfortunnatly YT do not support multilingual streaming.... This is really a limitation that YT do not seem to care much about.

re-releasing in french does seam like a good idea Tim!

RU-vid is working on a new feature that will automatically translate any video to many fluid, natural languages via AI software and a wide array of voices.

@@leoncaples2947 What we need is multiple audio chanel first and now. This tech is on TV for decades... GG has issue with tech ? 🤔 I don't think so...

Would be worth asking...

Or it could join the train museum in Mulhouse.

Interestingly, the musée des Arts et Métiers exhibited the Amédée Bollée vehicle L'Obéissante - built at Le Mans in 1873 and celebrating its 150th birthday - at Retromobile. There's a You Tube vison oif how they transported it!. I'm sure they are supportive of the Univem appeal but space for the Aerotrains but space is always at a premium in museums.

@@ianrobinson3017 They also have Joseph Cugnot's 1770 Fardier à Vapeur, which was not successful, but still the world's first self-propelled vehicle. And they have the first plane to fly across the channel, etc. It's an amazing collection.

I agree they both would be a nice addition to the Musée des Arts & Métiers.

All they need is a super trouper to take a chance on them and supply some Money, Money, Money.

@@Alex-cw3rz Hopefully the telephone will ring, ring, with someone asking "Voulez vous un vieux hangar" otherwise it could be their Waterloo

I really hope someone takes a chance on them, so that they can say I do I do I do want to have that space.

Owls Head is enormous and amazing. Univem should check them out for ideas.

I love owls head I grew up in Maine and my mom would take me when ever we had the extra funds

That's a VERY costly venture.

I picked up on the ABBA part but didn't actively identify the song. Good choice indeed. :)

Thank you Alex! I was hoping someone would identify the song :)

Sadly public money in France either goes to strangers or foreign countries rather than cultural and historical french associations. All of those non profit organisation don't have enough cash to host those prototype. Sad.

@@tomjoad1363 oh please. Stop it with this populist bullshit

@@tomjoad1363 It's not about cash, it's about space. Most of the Paris region has been forced into redevelopment. UNIVEM started in the close suburbs of Paris, but had to move once already to the current space, in Satory. Now Satory (which is a military base) is being redevelopped, because Versailles and Paris can make a buck by doing so. UNIVEM doesn't have enough time to buy and build a space large enough for the collection. So cash would help, but space would help much, much more.

@@tomjoad1363 Lol massive bullshit ! Most of cultural associations receive public funding and I won't stop on your "strangers & foreign countries" reac rhetoric. Surely many museums would love to get some of their vehicles but not host the entire collection which is a no-no for UNIVEM. And the way they work and use the vehicles doesn't match most museum's way of working.

@@tomjoad1363 stop with this non sense. Association and NPO are massively helped in France.

Give us a freaking break with comments about the music.

@@conhand.3578 I can and will comment about anything I feel like, for this is a free forum. Your rudeness only shows your absolute lack of culture, so please refrain or else you will be reported and banned.

That was so bad that it looped right back to being brilliant again. :D

Abandoned F1 track in France ... hmm... Several options Reims, Charade ( Clermont-Ferrand ), Pau... the problem is that they are not really abandoned.... they are now open road ( with the notable exception of a small part of Charade. )

@@tenalafel Behind the stands at Reims would be a great place for a new museum. It could have racing, military, experimental, farming, steam, motorcycles, bicycles, mopeds..... France loves great museums! It would be a hit! The military vehicles and such, would get all the same visitors, and care, as F1/2 cars on display. It's farmland. Perfect place to build a small off-road course for the military vehicles, to get exercised, and possibly give a few rides, for a fee. Now you just need another patron with some French formula cars, that raced there in the day. All that's needed, is a big building, and parking structure/area, to start. Could host all sorts of events there, to raise capital... And work to preserve the original stands, and pit, so it is future-proofed. It would be easy to get well known personalities involved, and it would be news, because of it's history. The locals need to be included in the plans.

I think I heard a bit of the 'Dads Army' theme in there too. 🪖

Give us a break with comments about the music.

Hahaha :D You know what, you might be onto something there... (and thank you!)

@@TheTimTraveller The Railway Museum at York for the Aerotrains, and The Tank Museum at Bovington. We'd probably see a blockade at Calais.

If it goes to AbbA's ears he will get his video demonetized.

@@tomjoad1363 it's a cover so no it wouldn't

Search "Ultravan". It's a large camper with a Chevrolet Corvair drivetrain.

Thanks for pointing it out. I completely missed it during my first viewing. Very cute indeed. :)

FACT!

Ah that reminds me they had a new album out that I was meant to listen to, somehow with all the things that came up I never went back to it after the first song! Regarding your suggestion, that's a creative thought that might be doable. But as a fellow mostly social media avoider I'm not the person to try such a thing.