Fascinating video. Coventry was a powerhouse of British industry in the 19th and 20th century. I have a little company manufacturing parts for classic British motorcycles, repairing them and carrying out many one off and short run fabrication jobs. So many of my tools, still in everyday use were made in Coventry, Birmingham and Leicester. I can't help it but I admit feeling sad when I see the way industry has been allowed to collapse but there are some relatively young, self taught engineers like myself trying to keep going in a world that doesn't seem to appreciate these skills. There's lots of like to say but will leave it at that.
I am a 50 year old engine machinist and I welcome you to view the 1st ever X Games live. With tears in my eyes the talent of these individuals are lost to the generations. Can you cast a cylinder bore the cylinder fit the pistons no ring compressor used those were men nowadays it's all automated people of today would be lost if you handed them a box of parts and said build it. Sad day when all these newfangled electronics fail due to pole shifts or something like that this is a Damn fine work of art.
Its true. Everybody just uses their phones instead of getting their hands dirty. Im only 20 and i rather build something cool than be on a phone or computer all day. Its amazing what we have done in the past 100 years, but then we have a double edged sword. The stuff we made is good but then it makes us lazy. And thats what happening to my generation and ive decided i dont want to be apart of it. If you want to build something build it, but otherwise you can waste your life on your phone all day.
Pole shifts take place over hundreds or thousands of years. It's not like a switch gets flipped and all of a sudden the poles are reversed, it's a long and drawn out process
For someone who has 2 of these bikes in parts this is amazing. Can't get any better reference material than this. Life just got a whole lot easier for me.
The gentlemen building the engine, you could tell that he was in the zone. Him, his body and his mind were solely focused on putting that engine together, with no delays and no mistakes. He must have enjoyed doing his work.
Crouching down for aerodynamics. Catching air over a small hill. Building an engine that consist of a piston, crankshaft, timing chain, flywheel, etc. This was filmed over 100 years ago.....not much has changed. Great video!!!
That was so early and amazing! The speed was impressive also, they were riding like demons on what appeared to be dirt roads. Obviously setup but I felt sorry for the lady cyclist who got enveloped in dust. Thanks for posting.
Cant like this video enough, absolutely fantastic! Hand built craftsmanship by true craftsmen. There is no wonder these things survived 100 years and still run.
Don't be fooled, those things were and are still frail, hand fitted production is a nightmare quality wise, metal quality was subpar and seal technology was in diapers, the manufacturers knew it very well and that is why those engines were extremely underloaded, producing less than 4hp with massive displacements, even that way they wouldn't last long, a few thousand miles was enough to wear rings, valve tappets bearings and pushrods, but that was considered acceptable back then, people are usually oblivious on how much industrial standards have changed over time and how consumer demands have changed with them.
It's seriously amazing to watch this old film! Everything about it amazes me, from the assembly process to the road test and watching other people passing by on the road. When they were using the lathe, although we have CNC lathes, for as much time that has passed between then and now not much has changed in that aspect.
What a fantastic piece of history. Takes me back to my days of dirt road riding and learning to drive for the first time on South Texas back roads lol. How the world has changed and not for the better.
Brilliant! Tweed jacket, plus-fours, flat cap, huge moustache and a Billiard pipe stuffed with Scruttocks Old Shag tobacco. Now THAT'S motorcycling! :-)
No air cleaners! The first guy gets clean air for his engine, the rest get to eat his dust. This is referred to as the "final honing" of the cylinder walls! Great Video! Thanks!
This video is amazing; It's a work of art. Watching the engine build sequence of an assembler with a careful eye and skilled hands. Human minds and hands at work; It's so beautiful to watch and such a well-made product overall too.
Great to see these films still survive. The days when this country actually made things. Would love to know where the locations were and what they are like now.
Brilliant film. I love the riding at the end. Racing each other, airborne over the hump back bridge. The technology has improved over the years but riders still wanted then what we want now - the speed, freedom and exhilaration of riding a motorcycle. Thanks for posting
Somehow I expected a gearbox to be involved or at least a clutch but apparently not. I guess the clutch function was performed by varying drive belt tension. Fascinating video.
It's the same Rover company that went on to build automobiles. I rode Rover #1, a three wheeled bicycle with a pair of 48" wheels up front which the rider sat between and a 16 incher behind that did the steering. Guessing this film was made in '03 or '04 based on the similarities to the 1903' Kery I had the pleasure of riding some time ago. The Rover must have been at least 500cc, judging by the rate of knots these ones were making.
Thank you for sharing this piece of history! @8:10 I thought they must have fired up a couple of smoke generators but then realized that was truly the first startup and assembly lube burning off. Looked like 3 kicks for one nearest and 2 kicks for one in back on first startup, amazing!
there are very few foundries left in the UK my Dad was a journeyman in Aberdeen, I remember going to his factory in 1967 and watching him work, those days (and skills) are gone, such a shame
And the power of a FIRE bucket with sand ! You Tube STANLEY WOODS WINS SENIOR TT RACE 1926 -----@3-10 King Dick adjustable spanners/check Empire steel "box" spanners in a canvas roll, Medium weight lump hammer sac of oily rags/tick Endless packets of unfiltered cigarettes/Double tick
This is awesome. Those people had no idea what they were starting. Just a few guys trying to make life easier back then and look what it became. Dirt floors where they were working. And quality still prevailed !! I'm much obliged !! I been riding motorcycles for 40 years and hoping another 40 to come
What a blast from the past. Simply loved the video. Thank you for sharing this. I don't think the fella that took a spill in the mud loved it though. Thanks again.
What a wonderful document, the First motorcycling... Only motor, chassis, wheels.... And a lot of dust. They was the pioneers! Thanks. Hallo from Italy. Claudio
Excellent! I was doing some hedging in my field in Devon and found one of these barrel and head arrangement laying in the hedge, rusty but exactly the same, it’s amazing it could last this long outside!
this is how torque was done, chief engineer put one together, junior comes along and measures how tight it was, writes it down into book for the rest of us. chief didnt use a torque wrench but his experience and feel
Beautiful, simple and intimate. More attractive than any Hollywood movie! Honorable and hardworking workers with strong hands and calluses from hard work. No advanced tools and robots but with passion and love. See how lovingly they caress the cold pieces of steel and how skillfully they make everything out of nothing.
I love this. It's like doing it yourself on your dad's bench in the shed when you were a kid with your first bike. (Squashing the rings in with your thumbnails). I have built many engines over the years, and the early rebuilds were a bit like this. Happy days!
I’m 65 years old and a motorcycling enthusiast have been riding for 53 years, and my biggest take away is that in the early days foundry guys went to work with a tie on!
I celebrate 40 years in business this June operating as a sole trader in my small machine shop . There are still some of us left that still use manual machines every day . Over the years I have manufactured parts from drawings or samples ,from a wide variety of materials. For industrial locomotives, brickworks, food factories, ceramic goods factories, wind turbines , the motor industry, classic cars and bikes , to name but a few . Sadly it’s getting really ever more difficult to earn a living with sky high fuel ,electricity bills and any profit you do make is taxed until you think , why do I bother .
I used to do that sand casting in 8th grade metal shop. And ended up a machinist for 22 years. Those 2 test guys getting air was great. I think I saw them on X games.
I got to work with mechanics who serviced R-2800 aircraft engines. I came to recognize I also loved that engine. 18 cylinders. Big cylinders. Then there were the jet engines of the early Learjets. Way I learned it was that you designed the airplane around the engine, and I see Rolls Royce Merlin was what made the P-51 great. It was still heartbreaking to see what an Me 262 could do to Allied bombers and fighters. Pilots are wise to understand that mechanics are watching them to see if they are making them work harder. I had a mechanic ask me if I rode my motorcycle hard. "It's a motor-cycle." is what I answered.
The timbered houses at the bridge are in Stoneleigh in Arden, ( now just called Stoneleigh ). The bridge is over the river Sowe on the Coventry road, where it runs alongside the Deer Park.
Hey John why don't you grab a bike and a cameraman and recreate it for us? You don't need to take a header in the river at the end - unless you really want to I guess.
in my opinion, the ingegnieure of this time were BETTER than today: they were more honest they had a lot more fun they were proud of the created work they lived for their work ......
Invaluable document ! Probably very few people have an idea of the engineering processes used in the early days of motorcycle. The factory (the foundry) looks like a garden shed ! On the other hand, workers are dressed with a tie ! Thank you for putting this video on line !
It was what people wore. And sometimes showed you knew a trade. We have pictures of my grandfather wearing a white shirt tie and Fedora with a overall and he was a teamster. I always wondered why their symbol was two horse heads. Because they drive a team of horses. I asked what did you haul. He said You name it we hauled it. Coal lumber hay move houses heavy equipment much like today. He was so good with a team men would come over to watch as he sat on the porch while his team mowed the bottom with a horse drawn sickle mower with him not on it!! He’d whistle click gee haw whatever if they stopped. And off they’d go. Back up lay down whatever he said they did. We had pictures of us kids sitting on em while they lay there. One where he brought it up to the back of his old Buick and said up It stepped on the bumper. Up. Again other hoof on the trunk. Look at the stars and it put the first hoof up in the air reared it’s head back and look up in the sky.
I think we often forget what an effort it was back then to produce a motorcycle from scratch, especially since there was nobody to copy like today. It's amazing to see all those industrial lathes and hand-made tooling, designed and built to strict specifications. We take a lot for granted today, but their genius laid the groundwork for everything we have.
Their workshop is messier than mine haha! I wonder if it's the same Rover who later made cars, and lawn mowers. Great little film, thank you for sharing.
Great film love it, I pass the buildings at 8mins 48 seconds, each night in Stoneleigh Warwickshire Jnc/of Coventry and Birmingham road Warwickshire , the ford at the end of the film is in Kenilworth Warwickshire .
It would be better than the dew rags skull caps bandanas and bald heads I see today. There’s no helmet law but I wear full face for warmth quiet ride bug protection and trauma.
And not a tube of crankcase sealant in sight, no wonder they pissed oil everywhere. Harley Davidson must have used this video as a guideline for their engines.
Front right of tank hand pump feed, 100% loss. All early bike were 100% loss, not sure what year Rover changed. I am building one that is not 100% loss and adding a oil slinger.
wow they had lathe engineering precision machines to make engines even before they invented sound microphones and speakers to audio-articulate what they filmed!!
The lathe is actually the machine that made the industrial revolution possible. The first precision lathe for machining metal was made in France around 1750 I believe.
How can you 'dislike' this video. It's a piece of rare engineering history. WTF do some people expect???
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Some people are just weird?
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@@stanley1917 I can't see why anyone would downcheck the video either.
It's a fascinating look into that era.
Steve Inskip, crash in end.
Fascinating video. Coventry was a powerhouse of British industry in the 19th and 20th century. I have a little company manufacturing parts for classic British motorcycles, repairing them and carrying out many one off and short run fabrication jobs. So many of my tools, still in everyday use were made in Coventry, Birmingham and Leicester. I can't help it but I admit feeling sad when I see the way industry has been allowed to collapse but there are some relatively young, self taught engineers like myself trying to keep going in a world that doesn't seem to appreciate these skills. There's lots of like to say but will leave it at that.
Hello good evening, my dear, how are you?
I never had a British motorcycle, I had many Japanese bikes and one BMW.
But I have a Yorkshire terrier.
You are a great person making parts for old bikes.
I have a 1966 Triumph and a love it.
I am a 50 year old engine machinist and I welcome you to view the 1st ever X Games live. With tears in my eyes the talent of these individuals are lost to the generations. Can you cast a cylinder bore the cylinder fit the pistons no ring compressor used those were men nowadays it's all automated people of today would be lost if you handed them a box of parts and said build it. Sad day when all these newfangled electronics fail due to pole shifts or something like that this is a Damn fine work of art.
Indeed.....but humans doesn't stop to upgrade/innovate things....
Its true. Everybody just uses their phones instead of getting their hands dirty. Im only 20 and i rather build something cool than be on a phone or computer all day. Its amazing what we have done in the past 100 years, but then we have a double edged sword. The stuff we made is good but then it makes us lazy. And thats what happening to my generation and ive decided i dont want to be apart of it. If you want to build something build it, but otherwise you can waste your life on your phone all day.
Dont fear, old man(your my dad's age).There's still plenty of us who build and make, Not just put together.
Pole shifts take place over hundreds or thousands of years. It's not like a switch gets flipped and all of a sudden the poles are reversed, it's a long and drawn out process
Oh, hush now.
For someone who has 2 of these bikes in parts this is amazing. Can't get any better reference material than this. Life just got a whole lot easier for me.
I would totally enjoy putting those together, lucky you.
It’s cool, how those engines have a internal flywheel that is actually the crankshaft
Did you assemble?
@@pmacc3557 No.........Plenty of other jobs in front of these bikes.
The gentlemen building the engine, you could tell that he was in the zone. Him, his body and his mind were solely focused on putting that engine together, with no delays and no mistakes. He must have enjoyed doing his work.
Crouching down for aerodynamics. Catching air over a small hill. Building an engine that consist of a piston, crankshaft, timing chain, flywheel, etc. This was filmed over 100 years ago.....not much has changed. Great video!!!
That was so early and amazing!
The speed was impressive also, they were riding like demons on what appeared to be dirt roads.
Obviously setup but I felt sorry for the lady cyclist who got enveloped in dust.
Thanks for posting.
Cant like this video enough, absolutely fantastic! Hand built craftsmanship by true craftsmen. There is no wonder these things survived 100 years and still run.
hahh that garbage was hand build micky mouse operation. i bet those engine didnt last 10,000 miles. or even 5k.
@@jacobpoucher you sir, and I say this as kindly as possible, are a fucking douche bag. Have a good day!
Don't be fooled, those things were and are still frail, hand fitted production is a nightmare quality wise, metal quality was subpar and seal technology was in diapers, the manufacturers knew it very well and that is why those engines were extremely underloaded, producing less than 4hp with massive displacements, even that way they wouldn't last long, a few thousand miles was enough to wear rings, valve tappets bearings and pushrods, but that was considered acceptable back then, people are usually oblivious on how much industrial standards have changed over time and how consumer demands have changed with them.
It's seriously amazing to watch this old film! Everything about it amazes me, from the assembly process to the road test and watching other people passing by on the road. When they were using the lathe, although we have CNC lathes, for as much time that has passed between then and now not much has changed in that aspect.
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What a fantastic piece of history. Takes me back to my days of dirt road riding and learning to drive for the first time on South Texas back roads lol. How the world has changed and not for the better.
I am so glad someone thought to film that. I am also happy someone remembered where it was and preserved it.
The company presumably?
Brilliant! Tweed jacket, plus-fours, flat cap, huge moustache and a Billiard pipe stuffed with Scruttocks Old Shag tobacco. Now THAT'S motorcycling! :-)
Totally agree. Today they sit on the bike, pushing the starter button and that is the most exciting moment.
What fascinating footage!
I loved the testers wearing flat caps backwards and the obligatory pipe in mouth. A gem of history, times long gone.
I soon learned that it is not wise to smoke cigarettes whilst riding.... The wind burns them up so quickly, that they only last 1/2 mile...
I really enjoyed this film and really showed the simplicity of how things used to be before we all went nuts~!!!! Thanks for the show.
yes agreed its first thing tht I noticed while watching the video
Before the world went money mad :)
Rasman?
Crazy people simple.
When people used there hands AND brains and not just there finger tips......
So wonderful that iomtt did NOT add any music. It is so beautiful in its original form.
No air cleaners! The first guy gets clean air for his engine, the rest get to eat his dust. This is referred to as the "final honing" of the cylinder walls! Great Video! Thanks!
“Put the case on and hammer to spec”... lol
Great video! Very interesting to see manufacturing in its early years.
This video is amazing; It's a work of art. Watching the engine build sequence of an assembler with a careful eye and skilled hands. Human minds and hands at work; It's so beautiful to watch and such a well-made product overall too.
Yes. I love work. I can sit and watch it for hours.
Machinist 22 years. 63 years old still riding a 250. My brother 70. A Harley.
Great to see these films still survive. The days when this country actually made things. Would love to know where the locations were and what they are like now.
You can just feel their excitement motorcycles have brought so much joy to people's lives.
Brilliant film. I love the riding at the end. Racing each other, airborne over the hump back bridge. The technology has improved over the years but riders still wanted then what we want now - the speed, freedom and exhilaration of riding a motorcycle. Thanks for posting
Somehow I expected a gearbox to be involved or at least a clutch but apparently not. I guess the clutch function was performed by varying drive belt tension. Fascinating video.
What a brilliant piece of nostalgia.I'd never heard of Rover Motorcycles.Thanks for posting.
Probably the best Video I've ever seen on RUclips.
Thank you.
It's the same Rover company that went on to build automobiles. I rode Rover #1, a three wheeled bicycle with a pair of 48" wheels up front which the rider sat between and a 16 incher behind that did the steering. Guessing this film was made in '03 or '04 based on the similarities to the 1903' Kery I had the pleasure of riding some time ago. The Rover must have been at least 500cc, judging by the rate of knots these ones were making.
Crap like Rover cars
What a treasure to have a few old films like this available.
Thank you for sharing this piece of history!
@8:10 I thought they must have fired up a couple of smoke generators but then realized that was truly the first startup and assembly lube burning off. Looked like 3 kicks for one nearest and 2 kicks for one in back on first startup, amazing!
It’s fascinating to watch video of people performing tasks more than 120 years ago that are the same tasks that I still do today.
there are very few foundries left in the UK my Dad was a journeyman in Aberdeen, I remember going to his factory in 1967 and watching him work, those days (and skills) are gone, such a shame
@Klippy Klop there are a few left, I wish i could go and watch
honestly test driving those bikes looks like a lot of fun, I'm thoroughly delighted.
Watching old videos is a joy forever....
21/4/19
What a perfect film! I love that the testers really put those motocycles through their paces. And they even caught air!
Lovely this is a display of the mechanical engineering history, I really enjoyed it.
Siempre he admirado esas naciones, por ennovadores en la industria y su forma de vida, saludos desde de Guatemala C.A.
Never underestimate the protective power of a flat cap.
And the power of a FIRE bucket with sand ! You Tube STANLEY WOODS WINS SENIOR TT RACE 1926 -----@3-10 King Dick adjustable spanners/check
Empire steel "box" spanners in a canvas roll, Medium weight lump hammer sac of oily rags/tick Endless packets of unfiltered cigarettes/Double tick
Flat caps,flat tanks and men of steel. One of the testers even completed the look with a lit pipe.
Not quite as safe as the Tam O Shanter....but close.
Modern day Yorkshire men still appreciate the safety afforded by the flat cap!
Still wear mine. No Woodbines or pipe these days....
This is awesome. Those people had no idea what they were starting. Just a few guys trying to make life easier back then and look what it became. Dirt floors where they were working. And quality still prevailed !! I'm much obliged !! I been riding motorcycles for 40 years and hoping another 40 to come
What a blast from the past. Simply loved the video. Thank you for sharing this.
I don't think the fella that took a spill in the mud loved it though. Thanks again.
What a wonderful document, the First motorcycling... Only motor, chassis, wheels.... And a lot of dust. They was the pioneers! Thanks. Hallo from Italy. Claudio
Excellent! I was doing some hedging in my field in Devon and found one of these barrel and head arrangement laying in the hedge, rusty but exactly the same, it’s amazing it could last this long outside!
No torque wrenches were hurt or bothered during the making of this motorcycle :-)
this is how torque was done, chief engineer put one together, junior comes along and measures how tight it was, writes it down into book for the rest of us. chief didnt use a torque wrench but his experience and feel
In the wla manual for head bolts, tighten in a cross pattern until tight unless you have a torque wrench then tighten to 65 ftlbs
check this out...ruclips.net/video/m6AZ7_mACUg/видео.html
The best mechanics could feel the proper approximate torque settings, unlike modern dummies.
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About your video link...
I wonder how many roadside "mechanics" must be following these procedures 😁
Beautiful, simple and intimate. More attractive than any Hollywood movie! Honorable and hardworking workers with strong hands and calluses from hard work. No advanced tools and robots but with passion and love. See how lovingly they caress the cold pieces of steel and how skillfully they make everything out of nothing.
Awesome footage, I love history stuff like this. Thanks for posting, please post more if you can find them.
I love this. It's like doing it yourself on your dad's bench in the shed when you were a kid with your first bike. (Squashing the rings in with your thumbnails). I have built many engines over the years, and the early rebuilds were a bit like this. Happy days!
truly enjoyed this, thank you
I’m 65 years old and a motorcycling enthusiast have been riding for 53 years, and my biggest take away is that in the early days foundry guys went to work with a tie on!
Awesome video! Footage from that era is so rare. Such simpler times, but impressive nevertheless.
What a glorious film. Barely into the twentieth century, and these guys had it all going on. Great stuff.
They jumped those suckers!!! Wow! Man. The motor was part of the frame and they jumped it. Lol
Awesome!
I rebuilt my Norton 850 Commando recently very simular bar the Magnito and one less cylinder. Best vid On RUclips!
Why would anyone thumbs down this Video?.....Very Strange
You'd be surprised how many ding-a-lings out there despise motorcycles.
Hate the biker, not the bike.
I celebrate 40 years in business this June operating as a sole trader in my small machine shop . There are still some of us left that still use manual machines every day . Over the years I have manufactured parts from drawings or samples ,from a wide variety of materials. For industrial locomotives, brickworks, food factories, ceramic goods factories, wind turbines , the motor industry, classic cars and bikes , to name but a few .
Sadly it’s getting really ever more difficult to earn a living with sky high fuel ,electricity bills and any profit you do make is taxed until you think , why do I bother .
Real Pioneer,Real man,Real mechanic.
I used to do that sand casting in 8th grade metal shop. And ended up a machinist for 22 years.
Those 2 test guys getting air was great. I think I saw them on X games.
That is real testing, those guys were fearless.
unusual core prints on cylinder core ,no cutting suds on lathe . wonder if they were Alfresd Herbert machines wonderful piece of captured history
rare video, rare engineering, rare engine.
WOW!!!! I want one!!!!! that was wonderful, watching those craftsmen building these, with their bare hands, truly inspiring
Proper old engineering and not a gasket to be seen.
I was thinking the same thing! Gaskets?
Wow, early motorcycle manufacturing. Very rare, super cool video. Totally enjoyed watching.
Dam those crazy young fools on those fancey fangdangled machines wipping up all that noise and dust .
Where will it end....
bjofuruh Watch beginning and end of Lawrence of Arabia.
I got to work with mechanics who serviced R-2800 aircraft engines. I came to recognize I also loved that engine. 18 cylinders. Big cylinders. Then there were the jet engines of the early Learjets. Way I learned it was that you designed the airplane around the engine, and I see Rolls Royce Merlin was what made the P-51 great. It was still heartbreaking to see what an Me 262 could do to Allied bombers and fighters. Pilots are wise to understand that mechanics are watching them to see if they are making them work harder. I had a mechanic ask me if I rode my motorcycle hard. "It's a motor-cycle." is what I answered.
Fantastic video, fantastic a wonderful time, thank you.
Them boys got down back in them days, racing.
What a great old film .
Pure pleasure waching old true engineering and people working 💕👍
Amazing how they Jump over! Tha last scene 😳😳🤣👍!
The timbered houses at the bridge are in Stoneleigh in Arden, ( now just called Stoneleigh ). The bridge is over the river Sowe on the Coventry road, where it runs alongside the Deer Park.
Hey John why don't you grab a bike and a cameraman and recreate it for us?
You don't need to take a header in the river at the end - unless you really want to I guess.
The skill of these people, unbelievable
in my opinion, the ingegnieure of this time were BETTER than today:
they were more honest
they had a lot more fun
they were proud of the created work
they lived for their work ......
they worked from age 7
they died at 40 from TB
they had syphylis
From what my grandfather told me you worked yourself to death and practically starved depending on where you lived.
He was messing with you ...could always shoot.a.deer catch some fish set up a decent garden
Eric Koenig not in a city. Where we live and they lived yes you could. But not in a city you couldn’t.
Loved the nostalgic buildings, country roads and the hump back bridge.
1 person disliked this video, must have been the woman on the bicycle who got dusted at the end
lol
I agree
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That wasn't a women it was a Rastafarian...........
Great to watch these old silent films no robots making these and most of all no music
The Lathe really is the Queen of the workshop
Invaluable document ! Probably very few people have an idea of the engineering processes used in the early days of motorcycle. The factory (the foundry) looks like a garden shed ! On the other hand, workers are dressed with a tie ! Thank you for putting this video on line !
Notice some of the men in the foundry were wearing coats and ties. amazing
It was what people wore. And sometimes showed you knew a trade.
We have pictures of my grandfather wearing a white shirt tie and Fedora with a overall and he was a teamster. I always wondered why their symbol was two horse heads.
Because they drive a team of horses.
I asked what did you haul. He said You name it we hauled it. Coal lumber hay move houses heavy equipment much like today.
He was so good with a team men would come over to watch as he sat on the porch while his team mowed the bottom with a horse drawn sickle mower with him not on it!!
He’d whistle click gee haw whatever if they stopped. And off they’d go. Back up lay down whatever he said they did. We had pictures of us kids sitting on em while they lay there.
One where he brought it up to the back of his old Buick and said up It stepped on the bumper. Up. Again other hoof on the trunk. Look at the stars and it put the first hoof up in the air reared it’s head back and look up in the sky.
I think we often forget what an effort it was back then to produce a motorcycle from scratch, especially since there was nobody to copy like today. It's amazing to see all those industrial lathes and hand-made tooling, designed and built to strict specifications. We take a lot for granted today, but their genius laid the groundwork for everything we have.
Roadghost88 well said absolutely they were the pioneers god bless.
Their workshop is messier than mine haha! I wonder if it's the same Rover who later made cars, and lawn mowers. Great little film, thank you for sharing.
i guess they were that same Rover that made cars and got bought up by Ford in the end
Very interesting vidéo, it's a fantastic pièce of history. Thank you.
Great film love it, I pass the buildings at 8mins 48 seconds, each night in Stoneleigh Warwickshire Jnc/of Coventry and Birmingham road Warwickshire , the ford at the end of the film is in Kenilworth Warwickshire .
WOW... Nostalgia for you then !!
that is really neat for you. would like to see it today.
Easily seen in Streetview, exactly where Steve says!
Thanks Steve!
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Awesome! Thank you!!
Excellent, shows us just how far we have come.
Loved the road tests
Really satisfied to watch the real hard working people and one damn real engine
This was in the time that a hat was also the helmet
except for the dudes that wore a turban, they weren't idiots like the others.
It would be better than the dew rags skull caps bandanas and bald heads I see today.
There’s no helmet law but I wear full face for warmth quiet ride bug protection and trauma.
Men were much more hard headed in those days.
To go back in time and purchase one of these machines....
Love the way the drive belt is fitted by a kid in an Eton collar. He can't be more than 12 years old.
Just beautiful piece of film . Clever very clever
Wow! and the enduro at the end!
What is to dislike about this amazing footage? 672 as of 23.1.21.
oh snap, that last tester picked a bad line through the creek and racked it hard xD
Wonder who was the poor customer of this bike.
Maybe a little bent frame and some minor scratches?
Never mind. There was more to come...
what a beautiful thing to see.
And not a tube of crankcase sealant in sight, no wonder they pissed oil everywhere. Harley Davidson must have used this video as a guideline for their engines.
All the old bikes were 100% oil loss, they have a separate tank and new oil was put in, dripped down and ran out the bottom.
Front right of tank hand pump feed, 100% loss. All early bike were 100% loss, not sure what year Rover changed. I am building one that is not 100% loss and adding a oil slinger.
a hole!!
lol! funny!
Is the EPA gonna make them clean up all that total loss oil they spilled ?
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end.
"Get the kid in here to wedge the belt on. His fingers are small, plus I need mine." Ha Ha
Hahaha
Thanks to you guys for making our lives better
The bloke, sitting on the fence is the quality control manager, ready to whip them if they fell 🤣
Real PURE MAGIC......Those boys looked like they were having great fun.
fascinating old film,thankyou for posting👍
I just looked back in time! Those guys at the end were having a lot of fun 🤩
Wow, rather amazing! The manufacturing techniques look crude by modern standards, but I gather the Imperial had a very good reputation.
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That's why we have the greatest machines as of this days.. and still we're aiming for greatness.
Jesus I want to go back in time
Lovely view of a bygone time, thank you for posting 👌
Oh, and the total lack of any gaskets explains a lot 😀
wow they had lathe engineering precision machines to make engines even before they invented sound microphones and speakers to audio-articulate what they filmed!!
They had priorities, getting on the road came first.😀
There is a new book out called "Exact" which is a history of precision - lathes and mills were around long before film and audio.
The lathe is actually the machine that made the industrial revolution possible. The first precision lathe for machining metal was made in France around 1750 I believe.