Single piston National Engine 

About 40 years ago I was working at the Giles weather station in central Australia. They had 2 old Nation 4 cylinder diesel each was about 10 feet tall. These National engines had been running in the power station for about 50 years without any failures they had remote cooling towers and were air start the fly wheel was about 7 or 8 feet in diameter. To start them you had to decompress the cylinders then using a long spanner to rotate to top dead centre on cylinder 1 then using a hand pump mounted on the wall pump up the air pressure hit cylinder with the air pressure when spinning release the decompression leaver. These engines had been doing 600RPM’s for 50 years. I’ve never seen anything like them since.

I have been an engineer all my lifee and Im getting OLD like these lovely machines. If you asked me "what is music to you" I would say these old stationary engines! SUPERB

Very cool! "Thunk, hiss......thunk, hiss......thunk, hiss........." This engine will almost certainly still be working in 300 years' time! The same goes for the old Lister engines...... really built to last.

From the country that produced the amazing high revving MV Agusta Grand Prix racing motor cycles! Love this old fellow.

I only have one thing to say!……..MAGNIFICENT!

Father of torque.

That "OLIO FIAT" overall! I need it when I'm driving my Seicento!

This engine is quieter than my 2015 tundra.

Beautiful machine!

I ran across a huge hit and miss engine this size in a Wyoming oil field a number of years ago. My God the exhaust was loud! Every time the engine would fire you could hear it from 5 miles away! Up close I had to hold my fingers in my ears, I didn't have any ear plugs with me. Thank goodness it was in a very remote location, nobody living withing 20 miles. LOL

A full-speed/stuck throttle situation on this one would be an awesome sight ...!

That breathing sound makes me extremely uncomfortable

Don't know what I would ever do with it. But I want one!

Quell'affare avrà una coppia mostruosa!

I want that!.... sounds like a chitty song is about to kick off...

Man that flywheel could turn you into pâté!

it must be preserved in good working condition, soon or after 2030 no IC engine will be there.

2HP but 10,000 ft lbs of torque!

When your neighbor start this early in the morning

I think I will put this in my garden and attach it with a generator for watching TV. My wife will appriciate...

I asked Alan Millyard if he thinks he could get this in a motorbike frame!

Drops a sick beat

They should install a safety cage round that flywheel = meat grinder.

The machine keeps telling me to "shh!", must have been a robot librarian

Its so quiet, I expected it to sound like a cannon

Very big vs strong machine

What a BEAST!

It sounds alive

2:20 they had to slow it down..lol.. it was fixing to take off. Cool.

Old is gold

These type of motors are called hit and miss engine

this video is from 10j ago, is this engine still running on a museum somewhere?

Sì, in effetti la didascalia è imprecisa. Parlando con il proprietario, ho saputo che questo motore era alimentato a gas povero prodotto mediante un gassogeno e faceva funzionare mi pare una filanda.

My species can be horrible and they can also be amazing. The things we make. Wow. Without us the Earth would be this spinning, unaware ball.

Does it have V-tec?

I think that was the type of engine in my 78 Chevy vega at least it sounded that way.

Я не понял, он завёлся или нет?

Wow very big engine 👌👌💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻😀😀😀

2hp @100 rpm 9600fps torque 4.5 lit displacement

What firing sound....

Looks like a very weak support for the out rigger bearing .

Almost like a Bessemer !

14000 RPM PLEASE!

فخر الصناعه انجلتر...آلمانیه....ایتالیا

Very nice good

I wonder what it was used for.

Ну в принцыпе все понятно .. но такой маховик на бронзовой втулке ???...

Fuel efficient

Looks bad ass.

The engine has asthma

Dekanter Technik, Hydro Maschine,Wellendruck Maschinenbau

Firing Order > >Yes

2:38...MAIAL...FERRARESE PRESENTE ALL'EVENTO!!

Прелестное создание

Minimal techno music)))

Ёу, классный бит

That old thing makes less smoke than a lot of modern diesel trucks on the road!

Vaz Uaz?

I can imagine someone would put a stand alone ECU and twin turbos 😂.

No computer chips🎉

Bagus mesinnya

Hello kita hadir nonton video👍

DO you have the specs to this engine by change? Displacement, HP, torque?

Old techno 😁

very. nice

It's really amazing

هاي النشنل ارقى مكينه

can anyone tell me why the piston is always exposed at end of strike on these old engines? Is it for easy lubrication, or cooling or saving weight of cylinder iron or boring long cylinder?

muy bueno. excelente para ir a ver.

هاي المكينه نشلن من ارقى المكائن بعد الرستم

Yeeeeeeeeeeeee start

Классный аппарат круто 👍👍👍

Piston, to jest piston.

Was the original fuel diesel or gasonline?

Is this full operating speed?

Where's the smoke???

why do they have a propane bottle hooked up to it?

Where is this place??

우주의 기원이기도 해

HP rating?

Beatbox

Au folosit ân toate industriile la .mori. La tăierea lemnului vapoare .la scoaterea a apei la adâncime mare .! Etc..

เครื่อง ไฟล์วิวส์ 👈☝☝☝☝ แม่ เขา จะ รู้ จักร ป่าว น้ะ

wow

Pity you filmed it with blinkers on

00:09 - leave the bag on the exhaust and see how far it will go!

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What cc or cubic inches is it?

ممكن إرسال الموقع والعنوان الرسمي للشركه للاتصال بها

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Good nahit

Il pezzo è qualcosa di stupendo dimostra quep

Asthma

Так они завели его или так крутили

Poconé tirando

Engine diesel best

Sounds like Pink Floyd.

Irritating when people get right in front of the camera...very cool tho

Yea..it.is a.primitive type engine..requesting.to show.a.biggest Ruston engine.

Haaampuuuuhhh