I remember these from when I was a boy during WW2. A local brewery used them to deliver beer to a pub in our village. Less scary than the Shire horses that delivered to the other pub.
And what about the old man before the folks using this? And the old men before those old men? I mean why stop at this highly sophisticated truck compared to horse and carriage before? Or just horse before? Or simply walking? Yea every previous generation is "tough" cause they didn't have what the new generation has. Which means the folks using this steam truck were pampered in relation to those before steam. People use to walk miles, these guys just ride in a steam truck. Yea, roll coal, blah blah, they're all pussies compared to our origins.
@@sacr3 - I make historical men's clothing for a hobby. I recently bought a couple of old very early electric irons just use as fabric weights. I was amazed to find out they both still work. so I naturally tried ironing with them. Its PHYSICALLY HARD WORK - they weigh 2.7kg - 6lb each. You plug one in whilst you iron with the other and then switch. Its a GENUINE workout ironing a few shirts - and this was the MODERN IMPROVEMENT on the old irons you put hot coals inside, this was EASY in the day. On the up side - I have never had shirts as well ironed - the creases are like a razor blade - 6lb of hot metal pressing on your shirt fabric makes very flat shirts LOL. But its a real shock how much hard work it really is.
I'm a mechanical engineer myself and I really cannot express how much I adore and revere early British engineering such as this. So, I'd just like to express my heartfelt congratulations and my sincerest gratitude to all involved for keeping such a beautiful vehicle 'alive' and running. Needless to say, the most fitting tribute to such a glorious machine is that despite her age, she'll easily outlast anything that has been built between the early '70s and the present day.
@@ladasodaexplains3355 much like my 1976 toyota d6000 truck. Everything is overbuilt and durable (aside from the alternator haha) Can leave it outside parked up for any number of years. Put some batteries in and off you go. I bought it off a farm at the other end of australia. Had not moved in 10 years and not regularly used in 20 years.. changed the engine oil. Cleaned the oil filter and air filter(they are not a replaceable type) fitted two used batteries and drove it 1800km home. Aside from the alternator seizing up and a headlight burning out. No issues at all. Was a great trip
To me the only technology that rivals the ingenuity in these machines is that of the mighty Rocketdyne F-1 engines on the bottom of the Saturn V rocket.
I love history I love classic cars omg! This is just on another level, to be able to see this tday in colour not black and white, the quality and the build , the mechanics of it and most of all the standard of British engineering back in those days, this clearly shows the value and the strength of made in England 🏴, simply amazing!
It's a wonderful thing to have a cab view of a Sentinel running, and then to see it coming at you with fire in it's teeth is even better. Thank you for sharing this.
With technology comes easier work, less physical work. Men back then would be strong, but also stink and be exposed to all sorts of harmful things because they just didn't know any better.
Johnny Rossman It was probably pressed into service during the war. It would have still been relatively young, and although diesel was in short supply and rationed we had abundant coal, it would have made perfect sense to use this for its intended purpose.
Now I'm wondering why I never thought about what it takes to run a coal powered truck... Seriously cool and impressive, good job keeping it alive gentleman.
8:58 something about the front of the vehicle with the headlights looking like eyes and the burner below looking like a mouth breathing fire just makes me laugh!! What a great piece of engineering! Love it!!
2 hours to get up steam. Not the one to use as a get away car from the bank robbery. Anyone would certainly be proud to own something like that. Thanks for the video.
@@Colt45hatchback if you knew anything about modern and old engines (technology too) you should know, that everything modern is more reliable and cheaper, than the old ones.
I'd be scared shitless if this thing would turn up at night behind me. Just think of the red-glowing fire pan under the engine. And also the doind it produces
Muito lindo sou motorista de caminhão fico feliz em saber que existe essas raridade em pleno funcionamento gostaria de conhecer pessoalmente está raridade, parabéns a vocês todos por preservar a história. Brasil.
What a simply beautiful piece of engineering. And what strong arms that driver must have, steering those 4 wheels!! It'd be amazing to see one of these brand new just out of the factory, not worn out from 100 years of use, powering down the road with a load of tarmac on the back!
With the number of axles and size of under carriage it must have carried a good size load. Pretty impressive piece of equipment. Great job, thanks for sharing.
4N5W3R5 torrefied biomass, which is more energy efficient than coal and releases fewer greenhouse gasses into the air than coal and oil, thus if a steam Lorry were powered with such, it would actually be more environmentally friendly
the shit it's spewing out into the air is most certainly not environmentally friendly XD I believe steam could be done in an environmentally friendly way but this ent it, fkn thing runs on trees XD
Any time I need a 'happy moment ' I watch a Tarmac video. This truck simply fascinates me. I would trade one of my 'A's to ride in this magnificent mechanical beast! I know the time, labor & money it takes to restore/preserve and love an old vehicle. Worth it. Thank you
I saw the footage of driving through the puddles and flooded street and realized that those could really ruin your day in a steam-powered truck like this.
If steam engine gulps up some water it just extinguishes, you can re-ignite it with some dry coal. If a petrol engine gulps up some water, you gonna need a new petrol engine.
Mi 28 If water goes into the cylinder(s) while its running, you'll have the same issues as a petrol engine. That's why steam engines typically have some kind of bleed valve to open while they get started allowing water that pooled after the last run to be ejected safely without bending the rod. I think Pete's point is how long it would take to dry out the fire box, re-ignite it and bring the steam back up to pressure to get going again. I sucked up a little water into my Jeep's engine more than once. It only took 5 to 10 min to pull all the plugs, crank it a few times, clean the water out of the distributor cap and reassemble.
The flood water wouldn't go into cylinders of a steam engine, the intake is sealed off from the environment. The drain valves are there because steam is water gas, and it always fills up the cylinders, so when the engine stops for a long time all of that gas water condenses into liquid water, which needs to be drained. You don't need to dry out the fire box. You just need to evacuate the water and re-ignite it using dry coal. The burning coal would quickly dry up the firebox and the wet coal as well. As for your truck, I guess you got lucky and it only sucked a tiny bit of water at a time, just enough to stop spark gaps from working but not to cause compression damage. Flooding a running engine normally results in its complete destruction.
Love these wagons. Watched one at the Masham steam fair road run. They can go at quite a lick. Good job no Bobby's about or he'd have been done for speeding LOL. Wonderful restoration job by the way thanks for sharing.
for some reason, every time i see a steam engine it gives me chills thru my spine. i must appreciate the effort of these people for keeping these pioneer machines alive. generation today have no idea what it was like, when we were growing up seeing these amazing monsters.
This makes going out and turning on my car 10 minutes before I go to work so it's warm look absolutely easy. Pretty preposterous this is what you had to do to get this thing started.
This is by far my favorite video. My grandpa was a oil field welder and made things for himself and other people. Now the 21 century the whole planet wants to go shopping 365 and party and fill the land fills. Dont make anything for yourself any more, if you dont have the credentials on paper, just buy it, as my mexican friend would say, just buy it and if it breaks throw it away and buy another one.!🤥
We built those vehicles under license in Skoda Pilsen in twenties....Some served after the war regularly and some are in museums till today..Great British Engineering...
as much as i whore myself out to renewable energy and what not, i cannot help but admire the engineering here. It's a testament to how far we have come as a species in creating things. It's just amazing to know that this was a coal fired vehicle that could be mistaken for something that uses petroleum because from an outsider's perspective it looks like another old fashioned truck from the era (which obviously it is).
Ya operate a steam lorry ya say? Ya… I do. Wat’s it take then. Coal miner’s lungs, nerves of steal, and a cast iron bum. Give it a go, see how ya like it! Na… I’m good. Oooh arrr! Yu’r missen out’a life. Live dangerously! Brad
Murdoch493 but this is from 1929. the Diesel-engine was already on it's run to victory. the steam - era was around 20 years earlier... but not in england. today this is great, but back then it wasn't "state of the art" anymore.
I'm afraid I'm gonna need one of those. Where can I sign my soul to the devil... Because I would to own that. I'd drive it to pickup my kids at school and to get groceries. I don't care if it takes 2 hours to fire up I'd do it anyway!.
You could modify a modern internal combustion engine into a single action steam engine. You could make it into double expansion engine by connecting primary cylinder exhaust to two secondary cylinder intakes. You'd need a modified valve timing rod, to open intake on every downstroke and open exhaust on every upstroke. Water pipe boiler is very easy to make yourself and it produces high efficiency superheated steam with no extra apparatus required. If you make it running on liquid fuel, you could make an automatic furnace that keeps appropriate steam pressure by starting and shutting down depending on the pressure.
We never really got these in the states; only tractors & locos were steam powered. The tractors are pretty neat to see in operation too, so at least we get that.
Well, they were kinda driving it from a historic "living" museum to a storage barn... hard to tell how far that journey actually was though. The only such museum I personally know of is in the West Midlands, and AFAIK "Stanley" is probably 100 miles away from there. Could have been a few hours' drive. Though they never seem to go through any particularly urban areas at any point, which I would have expected to be necessary on such a route, so it might only have been a few fairly easy rural miles from an entirely different museum I don't know about.
@@ericward8459 i think they would probably use the coal that they was taking to their customer if they carrying the right coal for their steam wagon and not house coal if they really needed to do so?
у нас в 30х в НАМИ занимались такими грузовиками, только на дровах планировали кататься по Сибири. Но не взлетело, дрова много места занимают и хуже угля горят, эффективность низкая получается, и расстояния побольше чем в Англии.
@@wrtltable Сентинел модели VBT 1933 года был технически более совершенен и имел автоматическую топку тем самым не отвлекая шофера от управления машиной. экземпляр был приобретен НАМИ в 1936 году для исследования рускими учёными.
Seen this at a couple events. She's a beautiful machine and keep doing what your doing. It's nice to see people care for machines so much. Her black paintwork is immaculate and it looks lovely. Subscribed and thumbs up
Alot of truck owners really like to boast about the raw sound of their engines, but you cannot beat the intense sound of an old fashioned steam vehicle
I would love to see a modern version of this truck built. The same wheel set up and cab but a gas fed burner and the best materials and most advanced steam engine. Just to see what it could do. I know steam engines can make tons of power. The trick to them is keeping the heat in.
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 Because steam engines can be very small and still make an insane amount of power. Never going to be a sports car but it could be a commercial truck. With modern tech we might be able to make it burn cleaner than a diesel but make similar or more power. When steam powered trucks were built technology for burners and insulation were WAY worse than they are now but they still made a ton of power with tiny engines. I have no idea if they could really compete with a modern diesel but it would be neat to see what could be done.
If that thing sits in rush hour traffic behind an old MX-5, Lotus Elise or Super 7, all you see in the mirror in those cars is a fire. Ok, and the Elise would probably start to melt.
This thing earned another Romeo! I bet 1940 scammel pioneer Sv2s will be jealous that this Romeo has two girls to date now!! Man these are some machines which are 8th wonder of world! Really loved the video and beauty in it!! Keep up the good work mate!!
Than God that the People in UK restore all the old stuff they find! In Germany not even 50% of those old locomotives,planes and cars are working,just a few ,the rest stands in museums just for Conservation. we have an old Focke Wulf 200 Bomber in Hamburg,its the last one in the world and it will probably never fly because of lack of money......:(
A fantastic beast, i do think that the writing was on the wall even as it rolled off the production line. I can see how it would work reasonably well on planned regular routes, eg beer or aggregate deliveries.
The DG8 was built and used for British coal mines because it had lots of power for hauling and also had basically unlimited fuel when your just carrying more coal from place to place
Wunderschön gefällt mir... Solche Lokomobile gehören auf die Straße und nicht unbedingt ins Museum... Danke für dieses Video... Und einen ganz lieben Gruß aus Sachsen Anhalt, Deutschland 😁🤗👍
