11K views · 211 reactions | The Chieftain was Britain’s Cold War Main Battle Tank from the early 1960s to the early 1980s. It has a very distinctive engine note from its Leyland L60 Multifuel engine. An engine that early on was somewhat unreliable, luckily our Chieftain runs, so get an earful of that engine! For more on Chieftain: https://tankmuseum.org/tank-nuts/tank-collection/chieftain #tank #tankmuseum #chieftain | The Tank Museum | Facebook

2K views · 55 reactions | Superb time-lapse video from the Norfolk Tank Museum showing the removal of a FV4201 Chieftain engine and gearbox. Made me break into a cold sweat watching this, a regular occurence when serving on Chieftain..... #memories #coveredinoil | The Challenger | Facebook

In the late 9th century, Viking ships prowled the coasts of Frankia, plundering monasteries and burning towns. Among their leaders was Rollo, a towering Norse chieftain reputed to be so large no horse could bear him for long. His real name may have been Hrólfr, but the Franks called him Rollo. In 911, after years of brutal raids up the Seine, Rollo besieged Paris and Chartres. King Charles the Simple, desperate for peace, offered him a radical deal: land in exchange for loyalty. Rollo accepted,