Axis Track Services
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Axis Track Services offer a full refurbishment service covering all aspects of Axis & Allied World War 2 military vehicles. Our modern, newly built workshop is fully equipped to cater for all restoration requirements. We have many years experience and extensive knowledge of these sometimes very complicated vehicles, and with a wide range of restoration projects undertaken it makes us one of the le
Little update of one of our current restorations-
Here you can see Nick giving our Sd.Kfz. 251/7 Pionierpanzerwagen a bit of a test run.
Not only is it running beautifully but it also sounds fantastic!
You may of seen the video of Bruce and Hus over the new year period giving a tour and a breakdown of this incredible piece of kit, from the original bullet proof wheels and original track pads.
More detailed updates to follow such as the assault bridge ramps and interior, so stay tuned,
Cheers, Bruce and team
23/12/2022
Proper chuffed to be featured on another cover by our friends at Classic Military Vehicle magazine!
This particular restoration of our Jagdpanzer 38t Hetzer has been a real passion and fascinating project to uncover this vehicle’s incredible history and rarity.
Lots more in the pipeline to share with everyone soon!
Links to where you can get your print or digital copy in post below
Hope everyone is getting into the festive spirit!
Cheers from the Axis Track team
January issue out now!
Featuring:
TANK DESTROYER RESTORED
With few Jagdpanzer 38t Hetzers surviving, Bruce Crompton’s bid to restore one of them is an important milestone
MEET THE FAMILY
Andrew Baker’s impressive CVR(T) collection
THE BIG INTERVIEW
The Tank Museum’s curator David Willey
‘SO UGLY, IT’S BEAUTIFUL’
Metamet Jeep back up and running
SUBSCRIBE: https://hubs.ly/Q01vQqhq0
BUY PRINT: https://hubs.ly/Q01vQrpx0
BUY DIGITAL: https://hubs.ly/Q01vQq_n0
The Victory Show we’re coming for you!
Great to see the panther running an Nick & Phil giving it a good test drive at its home down at the The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum !
Bruce Crompton
The lads and I are over the moon to be able to share this video of our now completed, ground up restoration of our early, original & running Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer tank destroyer. Fully equipped with it’s original firing 7.5cm Pak 39 L/48 gun (for display purposes only of course!)
As you may know from some of our previous videos, this vehicle has a fascinating and important history-
This particular Hetzer is one of the very first ten produced at the Skoda works factory in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) in wartime July 1944.
Safe to say I should of been wearing war defenders for this one! 💥💥💥
Cheers from the team at Axis Track Services
Have a good weekend all!
Quick clip of a Goliath restoration we have been working on.
Pics of full restoration coming soon
Stay safe!
Very excited to be sharing this video…
The beast breathes again!
Nick & Phil have been hard at work on this incredible, ground up restoration of our original Skoda 1944 Hetzer tank.
This is its first test run after having its original engine and gearbox rebuilt by our good friends at Armytech.com
Full name Jagdpanzer 38 (Sd.Kfz. 138/2) most commonly referred to as a Hetzer is a German light tank destroyer. And one of my personal favourite vehicles of the Secon World War.
Next will be fitting of the working L39 gun and we will also be doing some videos taking you through the interior.
We are proper chuffed with it so far, running beautifully! Hope you enjoy also.
Stay safe,
Cheers from Bruce & team
Please keep eyes peeled for fake accounts doing the rounds
20/03/2021
Can’t wait to get back to visit our friends at Musée des Blindés just look at the engine room 🤤🤤🤤
12/03/2021
02/02/2021
What great sadnesses to learn of the passing of this national hero. He really was an inspiration to all generations and will live on in our memories forever.
A very sad day, we salute you Sir Captain Tom Moore
26/01/2021
Happy Australia Day to our friends down under...
Here’s a rare piece on display by our friends The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum
Stay safe all!
🇦🇺 Australia Day Special! 🇦🇺
Australian Cruiser Tank Mk1 - The Sentinel
Of the 68 Australian Cruisers built (including prototypes) only 6 remain, 2 here at AAAM. 😱
Zirconium was used as a replacement to Nickle in the armour composition, Zirconium is found in beach sand in New South Wales, Australia.
The Sentinel was given the name in February 1942 by Lt-Col Leslie Pittock Crouch - Director of AFV 1942-1943.
Have a safe fun Australian Day everyone! 🥳
Set your reminders!
to Dec 2013 on set of the epic ... this pic of the talented cast and dedicated crew that we were honoured to of been part of. Suppling wartime original vehicles and hardware to one of the most authentic, highest attention to detail, historically accurate ever made. We will definitely be rewatching over the Christmas holidays
Amazing War Stories
Bruce gives a talk through some para items from the collection
If you enjoyed the second episode of our podcast, ‘The Night Raiders of Normandy’, you will find this interesting, Bruce gives us a special glimpse at some airborne items.
The best place to see interesting pieces relating directly to this episode and all things airborne, visiting the Airborne Assault - The Museum of the Parachute Regiment & Airborne Forces museum is an absolute must!
Listen here-
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/amazing-war-stories-with-bruce-crompton/id1532398472
Amazing War Stories
Battle of Chenneux items
Bruce shares with us some fun and interesting behind-the-scenes content about items relating to each of our podcast
episodes.
This video relates to one his his favorites, The Heroes of HQ Company.
Big thank you to
December 44 Museum - The Battle of the Bulge a must visit museum and also an extra big thank you to Frank van Lunteren, author of the fantastic book Blocking Kampfgruppe Peiper History of the 504th PIR in WWII
http://www.frankvanlunteren.com/
Hope you enjoy!
Amazing War Stories
Have you listened to the latest episode of Amazing War Stories yet? This one features our friends from the awesome Maisy Battery in Normandy which really is a must visit once it’s safe to travel and visit places again which will hopefully be very soon. They have some fantastic artillery pieces there that are a definite must see!
On June 6th 1944 a band of US Army Rangers undertook one of World War Two’s most daring missions. Against overwhelming numbers their mission was to silence the huge artillery guns that would target the invading Allied Armies that were about to land on D Day. But we can now reveal a secret about this famous operation that was classified for over 60 years.
This is the true story of 7 of the Rangers who took part in the mission to protect the hundreds of thousands of other troops landing on the Normandy beaches - sadly not all of them would make it through... They were the Cliff Rangers of Calvados.
Subscribe at www.bit.ly/AWSsubscribe to hear the full story in Episode 6 tomorrow!
Hi friends, been a bit quiet as we’ve got lots of projects going on as well as cracking on with Amazing War Stories which hope you have been enjoying.
Wanted to share this item that I have recently acquired, as I am really chuffed with it, an original Luftfaust A, I’ve never seen one before in the flesh till now...
Very exciting to see such amazing progress in this restoration, awesome work as always The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum 👏
💥TIGER I UPDATE💥
Glen and Beau are making great progress on our Tiger I project!
As you can see they have now completed the front upper hull armour plate along with both sides. 🥳 The upper hull will come along nicely from here on as we have the vital components prepped and ready to go. 🛠
Stay tuned for further updates!
Beautiful, amazing work as always from our friends at Armytech.com
Ready for expedition. Pzjg 38 Hetzer gearboxes.
Axis Track Services's cover photo
One of our favorite museums! December 44 Museum - The Battle of the Bulge
Have you listened to our episode ‘The Heroes of HQ Company’ yet?
Listen here 🎧 www.bit.ly/AWSep3
If you enjoy please do us a huge favour and leave us a review on Apple podcasts (even if you’re not an Apple user!) it really helps us going forward to be able to tell as many amazing war stories we can an raise awareness for museums. Cheers
Part of the collection on display at the December 44 Museum - The Battle of the Bulge. Who here has visited the museum in La Gleize, and what did you find most interesting to see there? Let us know in the comments!
Nice paint job! 👌👌
TANK TUESDAY brought to you by our Stug IV! 😎
Our Assault Gun/Tank destroyer, commonly known as the Stug IV is an Early variant. They produced early and late, no mid production vehicles.
💥The camo scheme is a 3 tone camo commonly spotted in the Normandy area during late WWII.
💥Did you know that the zimmerit is applied to the exterior of the vehicle to protect from magnetic mines?
Stay tuned & watch this space for a virtual tour coming soon!
War History Online
We are very proud that our friends at War History Online have joined our campaign to help save history and give museums as much support as we can by sharing the amazing stories they keep alive...Listen to the latest episode of Amazing War Stories here on-
www.bit.ly/AWSep3
Would love to hear your thoughts on this episode that follows the Heroes of HQ during the battle of Cheneux
This is a must read - human dynamo Bruce Crompton has a VERY crucial point to make - we have to save our museums & he gets our support all the way.
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The Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister, better known as the Jerrycan, is a masterpiece of design, and was copied by every nation. This is an original 1940 dated German issue can. The three handles mean it can be carried either two in one hand or one between two men, and the spring loaded cap is clearly either open or closed, avoiding accidental spillages. It holds 20 litres and can float even if it’s full!
Amazing War Stories
Happy weekend friends, have any of you listed to this weeks episode of Amazing War Stories?
This episode is about the epic story of the Bruneval raid, we hope all you enjoy it as much as I have.
You can listen to the full episode here: www.bit.ly/AWSEp2
Don’t forget, if you have enjoyed this and all of our episodes, post a ‘Headphones on for History’ selfie of yourself on your social media to share with your friends with the hastag cheers!
This week's episode is now live for you to enjoy!
‘The Night Raiders of Normandy’ is the epic story of the Bruneval raid, we hope all you enjoy it as much as I have.
You can listen to the full episode here: www.bit.ly/AWSEp2
Don’t forget, if you have enjoyed this and all of our episodes, post a ‘Headphones on for History’ selfie of yourself on your social media to share with your friends with the hastag cheers!
Amazing War Stories
Really proud to be sharing the trailer of the first official episode of the Amazing War Stories podcast with Bruce Crompton - ‘The Legend of A for Apple’
It’s just one of many stories of extraordinary heroism we aim to cover each episode.
Along with our main objective of sharing their incredible stories is to shine a light on the incredible museums that now exhibit and display each story we cover.
And in turn we hope to do our part to help keep museums alive buy inspiring people to go out and visit these and their local museums.
If you can’t during these troubling times, you can be safe in the knowledge that by just listening to the podcast, you are doing your bit to help keep history alive!
Hope you enjoy the trailer and head over to www.amazingwarstories.com and hit the subscribe button (it’s free) so you don’t miss an episode!
Cheers
On the cold evening of the 20th of December 1943 over 650 Allied planes took off from their bases in England and headed for Frankfurt on what they hoped would be a decisive blow against N**i Germany. But for one crew in particular this sortie would become a desperate fight for survival from which not all of them would return. This is the remarkable true story of the 7 men assigned to Lancaster bomber MG-A JB652.
Hear the full story in Episode 1: "The Legend of Lancaster A for Apple", coming this Friday. Visit www.amazingwarstories.com to subscribe so you don't miss it - It's free to listen to every episode and you'll be notified when each one launches!
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Le Tigre II était l'un des chars les plus blindés de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La protection frontale pouvait atteindre 16cm au niveau du glacis, à l'avant. Son inclinaison favorisait les ricochets et augmentait encore l'épaisseur de métal à traverser. De face, le Tigre II était réputé pour être quasiment invulnérable. Il n'en était pas de même pour les flancs, qui pouvaient être perforés à plusieurs centaines de mètres si l'adversaire manoeuvrait pour les atteindre et possédait un bon canon.
Pour rappel, le blindage d'un char de la Première Guerre mondiale : https://www.facebook.com/Museeblindes/photos/a.312004548954890/1720184211470243/
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