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Filmed at the annual Fairford Steam Rally, the Great Dorset Steam Fair and the Bluebell Railway Vintage Vehicle event, this Steam Lorries programme features a host of the finest steam haulage vehicles in preservation in the UK today including a Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon, a Foden bus conversion, an early 3 ton Foden wagon, several steam tractor conversions, a Foden tanker, a unique steam light delivery van and the ever popular Sentinel S4 and Super Sentinel wagons.
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The driver has to sit with his leg outside the cab??? Only in England! Ergonomics was not invented here!
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wish the audio was better what i can here sounded very informative. shame :-(
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you guys need to make a documentary about steam traction engine
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after an hour 200 psi " sufficient steam ! " pressure is generated !
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when i was a lad i would play on foden MW8324 when it was a tar wagon. there where two side by side rusting away wonder where the other one is now.
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Thanks for a very informative presentation from a long time SENTINEl Waggon lover.
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7.30 No electronic ignition on any diesel engine I'v ever owned, all have been compression ignition.
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LIKE
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"The fireman puts as much wood as possible into the boiler." Bollocks - to use a very British expression. The fuel goes into the firebox. Whoever wrote the narrative didn't know much about firing a boiler.
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wonder if these lorries could use propane instead of coal or wood .also, in the us we had steam traction engines and trucks ( lorries ). what killed them off was the self starter on the gasoline powered car and diesel trucks ( petrol)
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Why doesn't America have cool shit like this?
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Re: Landrew0 - Even up to the 1930's the steam lorries were more powerful than diesel/petrol trucks of that era. Also unlike today there was no network of filling stations, and coal was still very common (heating, trains etc..). Steamies were also well suited as tar trucks because the heat from the engine helped keep the tar liquid.
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This sound track is killing me.
I'm out! -
Imagine owning one of those as your daily driver.
"Hey, wanna go grab some take-out?"
"Yeah, gimmie an hour. I gotta stoke my fire and build up steam." -
Didn't know about these, and would have thought they ran on some kind of fuel oil, not a one hour stoking up and paraffin and rags and kindling and coal and steaming up procedure!
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Wow, these things are awesome!
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Thank you for this incredible video.
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Hard to imagine how they were ever economical; considering all the extra time, work, maintenance and initial expense.
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A tax based on the "whetted surface area of a boiler." How did the English not riot? Absolutely incredible.
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this is some very interesting footage good to see these old girls still working