Britain's Greatest Machines - S02E02: 1920s - The Engine Roaring Twenties (2.0 Stereo, 360p) 

Hi my yank cousin. We call ourselves "half jocks" in England lol. My dad was from Glasgow. Chris Barrie is a nob, but u gotta love him. Hav a nice day.

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Hi Marten. I'm from Australia but i too have my roots in Great Britain. On my mother's side we are from Cornish and Welsh stock plus I am actually a Scottish Lord, or Laird, in Scottish parlance. We can all learn from each other and appreciate what our forefathers accomplished. Also, I regard Mr. Chris Barrie as the best ever host of this type of show. He is well versed in most of the items and/or has done good research, with or without help. But he is modest about it all and he has a excellent sense of humour. Typical British subtlety but brilliantly delivered. One episode, in the first series, when he was driving the Austin 8 (I think) he was demonstrating the hand signal for a left turn. Basically, arm straight out and rotate your hand a few times. He smiled and remarked about how it reminded him of a certain salute he had seen some time ago. Puzzled, at first, I thought he was referring to Queen Elizabeth II's "royal wave". Then it hit me! He meant his character from the show "Red Dwarf"! Well, I just cracked up! I had to pause the video until I stopped laughing. So well delivered. Thank you Mr. Chris Barrie. (And Red Dwarf is one of my all time favourite shows.(Apologies for the length of this reply).

@@frustratedfriar9632 ~ The Brits are funniest and best when a little naughty!

@@martentrudeau6948 Agreed. Plus they are very good at being very risque, even, without actually saying any rude, or curse words at all. Thankyou for the reply, Martin.

Absolutely spot on. Now we are the 'problem'.

Yes we are responsible for all the ills of the world, or so we are told . We must grovel and beg forgiveness from , well everyone really. Sorry I’m still proud to be British.🇬🇧

Nice victim complex fellas

@@Aor87 poor victim

Just count the list of borders u guys decided and how it still effects millions of people today.

Brooklands is a fantastic day out - Concord, the flight Museum, the Racing car and bike museums, The Transport museum, Mercedes, the old workshops. Bloody Brilliant!! and A Tesco's round the corner!

Agree 100%

Will B Curious: while not in ruins, it doesn't appear to be maintained. Is there a story there?

I kinda had my suspensions about the light bulb with T.A. Edison's sketchy reputation.

or maybe just a lack of one of those peoples to learn the language * cough *

Does US say eggheads ?

@ThePsiclone Or maybe your own inability to be more precise in saying engineer or scientist. Sometimes British snobbery is quite irritating. Boffin isn't a proper title or anything, it's slang.

Yes, we know what an egghead is, but it's not used very often as it has a negative connotation. We mostly tend not to use negative slang terms for people we're celebrating due to their superior ability. Like Boffin. Which sounds just a little too much like Boffing.

@@galanie 'ere in Britain we enjoy a bit of harmless mickey taking, it's not offensive to us , in fact it's a form of friendship, if we are terribly polite to you, we probably don't like you very much.

Absolument! I wonder why they didn't bother to check the French beforehand. All the more so that it's supposed to be a quote from someone in France, so probably there's an original French version of the saying somewhere! It's not the first time I hear very dubious French in a British programme, and I'm always quite baffled as to how this can be "allowed"... It's not as if French was an exotic language with nobody in the UK able to speak it and check what is said! Maybe they just don't care? Quite puzzling.

He's done a lot more since the days when he was Rimmer. Though I do think that is the role in which he will always be most remembered.

apparently Kryten has a channel on electrified transportation.

smeghead

It took 250.000 cow stomachs to make the seplens gas bags it naturally stuck together and didn't leak gas!

End it then you miserable socialist scumbag

Westinghouse did at one time make stationary "portable" engines, (which I didn't previously realise) but it was an American company.

I visited India in 1989, travelling hundreds of miles in Ambassador taxis. A beautiful country. I landed at New Delhi airport travelling to Chandigarh and Patiala (forgive any spelling mistakes please) to work at Diesel Component Works for three weeks.

And now, Britain is like a manufacturing third world country.

In the US they might well have spoiled the fun by shooting at you. Many of them seem inclined to the strange notion that property is more valuable than human life.

We were never in danger of being caught, we could see them coming from a long way away. Our escape route was a dangerous climb down the concrete structures supporting the banking from behind.

White men aren’t victims. The black people getting killed by the police, the women getting raped and assaulted, the children getting shot at and the lgbt community getting assaulted and killed. To name just a few

If you don’t start picking it up soon we’ll have to start calling you guys mediocre Britain. Eh?

Too true, old chap, too true.

​​@@mazdaman2315 - they are hardly worthy of the full word any longer. Just call them Brits or Poms... nothing great about that 😂

Built on the backs of dead foreigners...

re: " balloon demo was clearly helium " A 'fireball' with Helium? You don't say ...

Drive the latest Bentley Continental GT...

SU eliminator kit. Use to sell those in my younger days. Also worked on SU pumps and fuel systems at Midel.

Your time will come. Ni ming bai ma?

And, well, by design. Have you seen the policies in place from the Buy Den admin?

@uploadJ I've seen economic growth numbers undreampt of by the criminal trump administration, as well as the lowest unemployment in 60 years. Out of the 11 recessions we've had in the US since 1953, 10 happened, and were caused by, GOP administrations.

Personally its mr brittas lol

UnitSe7en Apologies for my late comment, but i just wanted to say that i fully agree with you that Barrie is worth more than that: in my opinion, his portrayal of Gordon Brittas, the hapless manager of a leisure center, was superior to his "Rimmer". Less known, perhaps, but also noteworthy, was his voice acting in the video game series "Simon the Sorcerer" Edit: P.S. I forgot to say that i am Danish, Greetings.

What's a tosspot??

Is the term "... and, a window to toss it out of." enough of a clue?

aka Chamber Pot. "Garage Forecourt" is a new one to me.

Paul McManus _____ Tosspot means wanker. Nothing to do with windows.

Ikr? The wings being held by a pin like that is a little sketchy, but that's a minor detail that can be examined if they re-engineered that plane nowadays. I think people had more self responsibility then and/or there were way less people so maybe that just can't happen now the way they did it then. But really, there's no intrinsic reason we can't have a plane like that that's affordable and is just as easy to get a license to fly.

Yet for some reason the railways were not interested in this new fuel... Took them 30 years!

disastrous mergers too

they were just old fashioned

they were just old fashioned

and it was only after wwII

I think it's kind of a sick idea that "It wouldn't matter". When I'm guessing that you're German and although Germany had gone through hell there was more of an idea of keeping companies alive that are associated with your national identity.

It worked better than Lucas of the 70s and 80s cough cough BL

Lucas, prince of darkness.

Did anyone catch the "smeg you" sign in this episode? I smiled...BRILLIANT Red Dwarf callback! 😂😂😂😂

Or Gordon Brittas - or Simon the Sorcerer ;)

looking forward to the tour of the diesel decks ?

I'd like to see Mr. Lahey "mow the air" with that thing.

Those are fake fish.

Chichester crashed his aircraft in Japan, so did not make it around. He wrote a great book about the flight and about his later transatlantic sailing, called "the Lonely Sea and the Sky"

It's not that manageable. For one, it leaks really easily. To a hydrogen molecule, most matter has the consistency of sponge cake. It'll squeeze through solid steel, and make it brittle on the way.

When I worked in the Semiconductor industry we used a Hydrogen/Nitrogen mix (at about 11% H2 iirc) in a heated furnace as a cover gas when soldering Silicon chips to the mounting frames. This prevented oxidation and acted as a flux. All the mixing units had alarms on them if the mix went out of limits!

@@ShaunieDale Interesting, thanks. I presume it's the hydrogen which provides all the fluxing action?

@@Gottenhimfella yes, the hydrogen reduces the oxidation which is the purpose of any flux. Loss of the cover gas caused the product to turn into an absolute mess, I know that.

@@ShaunieDale But if that was all they were trying to achieve, surely they'd use helium or argon (depending on whether they wanted it buoyant or dense)? Flux generally has the added effect of increasing wettability above that of a clean surface.

imo both are valid. Its like The Fastest Lorry vs The Lorry That Goes Fastest.

@@Skraeling1000 C'est une phrase qui ne se dit pas en français ;) il y a trente mille façons différentes de le dire, mais pas celle-là... Can't say that in french... There are thirty thousand ways to say it, but not that one... ;)

@@vatza1344 Mon Dieu, I've been speaking French wrong all these years! MDR!

@@Skraeling1000 T'es un p'tit marrant toi ;)

@@vatza1344 :grin: Oh, I'm curious, are you from Brittany? Vat Za sounds Breizh to me.

Don't forget Birkins blower!