1/2. Occaz Militaires suit les péripéties de Bruce Crompton, acheteur, restaurateur et revendeur de matériel militaire, et de sa fine équipe. There are no crops or cattle in sight. Bruce Crompton is a cast member of Combat Dealers. It features a "all things military dealer " called Bruce Crompton. He found an aquatic Schwimmwagen tank – essentially an armoured bathtub on wheels – in a monastery in Le Mans in France. He cuts a colourful figure, his brilliant pink trousers, tweed jacket, and gold embroidered braces stand out in stark contrast to the khaki green vehicles. He's a real "Del Boy" character from East London. The response has been phenomenal, he says, with everybody from schoolchildren to old soldiers embracing it. Bruce Yardley CROMPTON. When we asked if that was the lot they said “No, you have to wait here”. Kettenkrad Bearings. Once complete it will be worth more than £5million. “The bigger ones like the Imperial War Museum, they’re getting help from the Government, but the dozens of little ones, all volunteer-run, get nothing at all. Last year ended wretchedly with him back in hospital to have his spleen out, while his father was dying in the next ward. Customers who watched this item also watched. I was dying for someone to ask me about my day, but no-one did.". Bruce joined Lanes back in 2002, and as a Director of the Rail Division Bruce has specific responsibility for framework contracts with London Underground Limited (LUL). Favorites. That's why I always take a couple of ex-military guys with me as back up.”, For the most part Bruce tries to avoid unnecessary risks. We want to get people to understand that they’re on their doorstep, and go and visit them.”, The podcast episodes are nearly all based on stories Crompton unearthed in local museums. Inside a chock-full barn in Suffolk, Bruce Crompton, broadcaster, ex-paratrooper and one of Britain’s foremost collectors of military antiques and vehicles, is showing me his choicest possessions with an almost paternal pride. This impressive space is crammed with vehicles, weapons, equipment and memorabilia. Bruce leads us into an enormous metal shed packed with tanks and trucks. I thought, 'Oh God, this is it.”. Axis Track Services in conjunction with The Crompton Collection supplied a great deal of original military vehicles along with our historical expertise for the film. “I’d promised my wife these would be my last jumps.”. The rare artefacts are showcased on TV show Combat Dealers, which has made Bruce a cult hero. Sign Up. All types of militaria from all nations will … Then he started getting all these guns out, cocking them in our faces and firing them into the ceiling. Bruce Crampton (born 28 September 1935) is an Australian professional golfer.. Crampton was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and attended Kogarah High School in 1948–1950. From family man, to director of one of the nations biggest engineering companies (built up from his early twenties), to social and military history enthusiast, to a philanthropist with a penchant for a well-made suit. He is full of praise for the NHS but his recovery has been slow and he has suffered abscesses and other disasters: twice his wife and family were summoned to his bedside to say goodbye. He still spends at least two weekends every month on the road hunting for that next big discovery. Extensive plans to mark the 75 th anniversary of the Victory in Europe during World War Two on Friday 8 th May have been cancelled because of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown. “It’s free, but people have been making donations, so we’re trying to decide which museums need it right now and how we can help them. Bruce Crompton est sur Facebook. “They took us out back and showed us this huge pile of guns. Entrepreneur Bruce Crompton, is a larger-than-life eccentric character with many passions in his busy life. It's amazing what's still out there if you know where to look.”. I can now officially be referred to as ‘Man of Steel’ as a result of my new titanium plate that’s been hammered into my wrist! After D-Day Bruce Crompton helps a Texan millionaire who wants to collect memorabilia from the Battle of Normandy. Bruce says: “The monks still used it to trundle down to the shop to buy their vegetables.”. It has also brought a steady string of Hollywood directors to his door. Moreover, Crompton is the owner of one of the largest 20th century military equipment and motor vehicles. To connect with Bruce Crompton, sign up for Facebook today. There’s a First World War trench pump that was used in Ypres; a lavatory from Hitler’s state apartment (boasting side-flush instead of a chain); and a bath that belonged to Winston Churchill (“My hero. Bruce Willis and Demi Moore seem to be the perfect example of how to co-parent after a divorce. But Crompton insists he is much keener on collecting than making money. His antique shop, Axis Track Services is very famous all over the country. Bruce Crompton is on Facebook. Why on earth did Radio 2 axe the heavenly Clare Teal. “We’ve just sent a Panther to a friend of mine in Australia. Bruce poses with a rare Japanese Field gun from WW2, A section from a Dakota plane from Bruce's collection, Hitlers toilet from the Bruce Crompton collection, German toilet roll from Bruce's collection, Mirrorman Warren Manger poses with the Bruce and some of his collection. Bruce Crompton. Bruce Yardley CROMPTON. GB445558329. It’s easy to share his excitement. Bruce has risked kidnap and had loaded guns waved in his face in order to find some of his most prized possessions. Bruce Crompton - Director Rail Division. “His father was the son of a slave from the Caribbean. Additionally, the series is based on Bruce’s adventures. Combat Dealers follows the adventures of Bruce Crompton, a buyer and seller of old military kit. After D-Day Bruce Crompton helps a Texan millionaire who wants to collect memorabilia from the Battle of Normandy. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. He has found incredible relics in the unlikeliest places. Even more colourful is the story of Cherie Blair, then the Prime Minister's wife, visiting the set of Band of Brothers and breastfeeding her son Leo across the dining table from Bruce as he ate. He travels around the barns and battlefields of Europe and the old Eastern Bloc, hunting down everything from old radio kits to WWII tanks. With Freddie Kruyer, Bruce Crompton, Huseyin Ibrahim, Ian Sandford. A collectors site specialising in original WW1, WW2 & some Falklands historical military artefacts. Their most recent appointment, in our records, was to THE WEALD FOUNDATION on 2003-11-19, from which they … I was met by Bruce’s son Max and shown round the collection and workshop where the team were busy working on an Sd.Kfz 251. “He didn’t jump out until he was down to 800ft – I’m a former paratrooper, I know what a risk that was,” Crompton says. 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In the Halesworth Airfield Museum he learned about Donald Field, a pilot who risked his life steering his damaged, explosive-laden Lancaster bomber away from a local town. The D-Day Darlings. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Crompton, 64, is slowly recovering from a horrific parachuting accident – “I fell 38ft from a tree headfirst” – but any suggestion of frailty vanishes as soon as he starts talking. He also used to lend vehicles and kit to films – Saving Private Ryan, Fury – but does less of that too these days. TRIPLE G RECON LIMITED (12832772) Company status Active Correspondence address 1st Floor, Upminster Library, 26 Corbets Tey Road, Upminster, Essex, United Kingdom, RM14 2BB . explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. Bruce's collection now exceeds 50 vehicles, including some of the world's rarest tanks. Crompton, in addition to serving with the Parachute Regiment for six years, helped his father build up and  sell on a number of companies. “But it was just a warning not to mess with him. Then he asked me what a Scotch Egg was. Axis Track Services in conjunction with The Crompton Collection supplied a great deal of original military vehicles along with our historical expertise for the film. or. His antique shop, Axis Track Services is very famous all over the country. From an enthusiast's perspective he's surely living the dream? All types of militaria from all nations will be … Bruce Crompton se rend en Norvège afin d'y récupérer des pièces détachées pour le tracteur d'artillerie que son équipe de mécaniciens est en train de restaurer. Combat Dealers follows the adventures of Bruce Crompton, a buyer and seller of old military kit. No info to show. “They didn't want to wait, so they grabbed another stunt man and off he went. A  self-taught historian who left school at 15, he’s so voluble I doubt you’d stop him if you dropped a doodlebug on top of his head. His wife Sue and the rest of his family agree that, as he puts it, “I’m bouncing back. Bonjour Monsieur Crompton je suis un de vos fan Je souhaiterais faire parti de vos amis . Another episode features a real scoop, revealing the long-unknown location in France of the grave of Walter Tull, the Tottenham Hotspur footballer who had become the first black officer in the British Army by the time he was killed in the Great War. If those museums close they’ll have  to auction off all their material to private collectors.”. This is not just bringing history to life, but giving the listener a ringside seat, with carefully chosen sound effects immersing you in events. Tom Hanks was “an absolute gentleman”, a fellow military buff who wrote a get well soon letter for Bruce's daughter Lois, who was ill in hospital. His smallarms expert he introduced as a "ex para" he wears the shirt, as does Crompton sometimes. We had been trying to organise a visit to Axis Track Services ever since my colleague Jack was introduced to Bruce Crompton at Tankfest back in June 2014. Their next starring role is in the new Transformers film, due to be released in June, which has already caused controversy after leaked photographs showed Winston Churchill's home Blenheim Palace covered in Swastikas during filming. Extensive plans to mark the 75 th anniversary of the Victory in Europe during World War Two on Friday 8 th May have been cancelled because of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown. Bruce Crompton. The general was a great big guy, but before he would even talk about a deal, he wants us on the peach schnapps. Normal price £20. Bruce cackles as the Apache finally wheels away and disappears into the distance. There is a criminal element. Four years it’s taken. Honestly I cou... ldn’t pick, big or small all vehicles or from any period of history, every vehicle is just as precious as the next. Entrepreneur Bruce Crompton, is a larger-than-life eccentric character with many passions in his busy life. Welcome to CS Militaria. Customers who watched this item also watched. Fury — Sony Pictures Quand il s'agit de tanks, Bruce Crompton ne plaisante pas. It’s worth about £14 million,” he booms as I roam the barn, inspecting the collection. He did the deal good as gold because we matched him drink for drink. Bruce Crompton poses with Winston Churchill's bath (Image: Daily Mirror) Read More Related Articles. Our. In Austria the Combat Dealers team got a grisly surprise when they pulled a Nazi tank from a river. He won the Vardon Trophy for the player with the lowest stroke average on the PGA Tour in 1973 and 1975. Crompton has lost weight since his TV heyday, following the parachute accident in April last year. I’ll never sell that”). Combat dealers is a series on Quest, Sky Ch 167. He boasts over 40 years’ experience of working and delivering emergency response and planned maintenance projects in the rail sector. © 2020 Key Publishing Ltd Key Publishing Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with Company Number 2713662. In the wake of the success of Combat Dealers and the impact of Fury, Mark Barnes spends a day with Axis Track Services and chats with Bruce Crompton about his passion for military history. Join Facebook to connect with Bruce Crompton and others you may know. If Spielberg decides it would look good to blow up my tank, I can’t stop him,” he says. Back at the farmhouse, with his bulldogs taking an excitable interest in us, Crompton shows me pictures of the giant organ-crushing abscess that nearly finished him off, with all the eagerness with which he showed off his kit. Bruce Crompton has one of the largest private collections of military equipment in Britain, worth several million pounds. LIMITED EDITION PRINT. It only just stabilised itself. Bruce Crompton, star of Combat Dealers and military vehicle collector, came to visit The Tank Museum over TANKFEST and treated us to his Top 5. People are strange like that. He got some limelight because of this series. I said, “They're lovely, try them.”, “Next thing I knew half a Scotch Egg came flying across the room as he spat it out.”. Victime d'une crise cardiaque en janvier, Buck Compton meurt le 25 février 2012 à Burlington. Bruce Crompton is a military equipment collector and also a Tv personality. The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. And shortly before the start of the Balkan War, Bruce and his team travelled to Sarajevo to meet a Serbian general who had piles of Second World War machine guns to sell. Combat dealers is a series on Quest, Sky Ch 167. Practising  in the Netherlands for a big event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day with a group of fellow ex-paratroopers, he crashed into a wood and hung upside down with his foot caught in a branch, too high for ladders to reach him, before falling when he tried to free himself. They don't appreciate how expensive this stuff is – the Nazi jackets are worth £10,000 each! He has one of the largest collections of military hardware in the world. To listen to the Amazing War Stories podcast, visit amazingwarstories.com. His thrill-seeking days may have been curtailed, but his hit podcast seems to be bringing Bruce Crompton back to life; let us hope it can do the same for our military museums. He's a real "Del Boy" character from East London. He visits farmhouses and museums to find rare items like a 1942 Luger. His interest in collecting was sparked as a teenager by a family friend, Captain Peter Royle, who gave him a leather jerkin that was still stained with blood from where a mortar round had hit him in the face at the Battle of Longstop Hill. I understand he's ex-10PARA (3 Coy, Finchley). Bruce (centre) with Fury director David Ayer (right) and a producer (left) on the film set, where Bruce's tanks were used to recreate key scenes. Series 2 of Combat Dealers starts Wednesday 5th August at 9pm only on Quest. I don't blame them for taking a peek. His vehicles have appeared in Hollywood's most famous war films including Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, and Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Bruce Crompton added a new photo. Watch with Discovery Channel. Max Crompton - Axis Track Services - +447890 284 167 - max@axistrackservices.com. TRIPLE G RECON LIMITED (12832772) Company status Active Correspondence address 1st Floor, Upminster Library, 26 Corbets Tey Road, Upminster, Essex, United Kingdom, RM14 2BB . After six years serving in the Parachute Regiment alongside actor Lewis Collins, who played Bodie in The Professionals, he set set about adding to his collection. Nous voudrions effectuer une description ici mais le site que vous consultez ne nous en laisse pas la possibilité. Nearly half the space is filled with a huge display of Nazi war machines and mannequins in German uniforms. His passion is British and US military memorabilia but his Nazi gear is rarer and more valuable. He travels around the barns and battlefields of Europe and the old Eastern Bloc, hunting down everything from old radio kits to WWII tanks. In the area normally occupied by Wheatcroft or Gibb vehicles at Beltring, with a van in the background marked up for the Wheatcroft Collection, and some rare German WW2 vehicles with very high restoration standards that I thought were Wheatcroft or Gibb (SdKfz.7 & 88, 250, 251, D7)... there were banners for 'The Crompton Collection'. Bruce affectionately pats the handlebars of a Nazi Kettenkrad motorcycle tank known as 'the Rabbit', which Tom Hanks' character rode in Saving Private Ryan. “They went straight to Sarajevo prison, took all the old machine guns off the guards and sold them to us. His smallarms expert he introduced as a "ex para" he wears the shirt, as does Crompton sometimes. BRUCE YARDLEY CROMPTON is British and resident in United Kingdom. I’m often asked what my favorite military vehicle is. Bruce's family have no military history, but he became obsessed with the army after being given a Tommy Gun action figure when he was six years-old and it still sits proudly among his collection. With Freddie Kruyer, Bruce Crompton, Huseyin Ibrahim, Ian Sandford. Even more so if we can learn the history behind the individual item which most of us lucky collectors and any museum worth it’s salt do. If you've watched Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, and Captain Corelli's Mandolin you seen guns owned by Bruce Crompton, Our free email newsletter sends you the biggest headlines from news, sport and showbiz. Bruce says: “Brad Pitt was a straight up guy, we swapped pictures of our bulldogs in the canteen. The Crompton Collection. will accept £2000 for all. His anecdotes from the film sets he has visited with his tanks, and from filming Combat Dealers, are equally vivid. We had been trying to organise a visit to Axis Track Services ever since my colleague Jack was introduced to Bruce Crompton at Tankfest back in June 2014. “We were very poor, my parents had nothing. “We do round parachuting, it’s quite dangerous, you can’t do it in this country,” he says. “There was still a jackboot on the pedal with a skeletal foot inside it,” says Bruce. Bruce says: “The tension down there was intense. Combat Dealers. VAT No. To date it has received spectacular reviews, and we are incredibly proud to have contributed towards a production that has been called 'the best Hollywood war movie since Saving Private Ryan' . In the 1989 he feared he was being kidnapped by former Viet Cong soldiers after being driven deep into the jungle in search of abandoned American kit. Now his day job  is as director of a firm that carries out maintenance work for the London Underground; it’s a career successful enough to have kept him in tanks. Role Active Director Appointed on 24 August 2020 Nationality … Bruce starred in all 27 episodes from 2014-2018, Freddie in 18 episodes from 2015-2017 and Ian in 6 episodes in 2014. Bruce Crompton is a military equipment collector and also a Tv personality. Unlike some other collectors of military hardware, Crompton happily opens his doors to interested parties – groups of veterans, schoolchildren or nosy journalists – and today he lets me interact with the objects: I get to clamber into a Steyr 2000A German towing vehicle and sit inside the lovingly restored fuselage of a Douglas C-47 Dakota. When the stunt man tried to turn, it nearly went over. Thankfully this is not the return of the Third Reich. About Bruce Crompton. Bruce Crompton est sur Facebook. But the job of finding and buying this military memorabilia is far less glamorous. His collection is jaw-dropping. Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds with some of Bruce's kit, Bruce (centre) on parade with the Parachute Regiment. Other. “But I had to drive up to Leeds for a meeting afterwards. “I knew a German guy who lost his life doing this a few years ago. Job lot, not breaking. “They come over here all the time to see what we've got,” he says in a thick Cockney accent. “Eighty per cent of our military museums are in trouble,” says Crompton. BRUCE YARDLEY CROMPTON is a Director from Halesworth Suffolk. The series is directed by Peter Campion. “If you watch Combat Dealers carefully, you don’t see me sell a lot,” he says. The shell of a Second World War Panther tank which Bruce claims will be worth £5million pounds once restored. To date it has received spectacular reviews, and we are incredibly proud to have contributed towards a production that has been called 'the best Hollywood war movie since Saving Private Ryan' . Kettenkrad Bearings. Hopefully that will put an end to the parachuting accident saga that happened back in April. Meet Bruce Crompton, the podcast presenter who is fighting to save Britain's military museums, starting with his own incredible collection. Inscrivez-vous sur Facebook pour communiquer avec Bruce Crompton et d’autres personnes que vous pouvez connaître. It began purely as a hobby, but Bruce realised there was big money to be made after buying a job lot of gas masks and selling them for a large profit. Find out more, The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes, Chock-full: Ex-paratrooper and presenter of the Amazing War Stories podcast Bruce Crompton, photographed at home in Halesworth with part of his military collection, All ears: Bruce Crompton in his podcast studio, Beret days: Crompton (on the left) as a paratrooper in the 1980s, Eye-catching: Crompton first came to the public's attention in the Discovery channel show, Combat Dealers, BBC Radio 2's 'Mood Mum' policy is patronising and baffling - and it's losing them listeners, George the Poet: ‘I want to help build political literacy’, Try this for a vaccination against Covid codswallop, Meet the chef taking on a supermarket giant for selling New Zealand venison over British, Boomer boxes: how golden oldies are leading an unlikely radio revolution. “This is pretty much the entire scene that was shot up at the start of Brad Pitt's war film Fury,” says Bruce, his chest puffed out with pride. “When they wanted to film that scene my guy Jack had nipped for a fag,” says Bruce. He turned professional in 1953. Filter appointments Filter appointments Current appointments Total number of appointments 11 Date of birth February 1956. An Apache helicopter hovers in the steel-grey sky above the flooded Suffolk countryside. Charismatic Bruce Crompton and his team, buy, repair and sell World War II military gear, travelling the world in search of rare artefacts to restore and sell. You can unsubscribe at any time. Antiques Roadshow l PBS. From family man, to director of one of the nations biggest engineering companies (built up from his early twenties), to social and military history enthusiast, to a philanthropist with a penchant for a well-made suit. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year- will be seeing and catching up with you all in 2020... As you you can see, have been well looked after by my main man Hus whilst they took out my spleen, part of my pancreas and part of liver too. It made him look like a military King Midas, transforming rust buckets into financial gold. It's certainly watchable and I must confess that I learn from it too. Bruce Crompton se rend en Norvège afin d'y récupérer des pièces détachées pour le tracteur d'artillerie que son équipe de mécaniciens est en train de restaurer. I understand he's ex-10PARA (3 Coy, Finchley). In the area normally occupied by Wheatcroft or Gibb vehicles at Beltring, with a van in the background marked up for the Wheatcroft Collection, and some rare German WW2 vehicles with very high restoration standards that I thought were Wheatcroft or Gibb (SdKfz.7 & 88, 250, 251, D7)... there were banners for 'The Crompton Collection'.