Chris Barrie is a genuine grease covered , nerdy little boy who loves playing with his toys. He is known, liked and respect in the vintage , veteran, mechanical world. He does have a real mechanical feel for equipment.
We in India can never forget British engineering in its heyday. The Marshal steam rollers, the Rolls Royce cars, the North British Locomotive Co. built locomotives, the huge static steam engines, Westinghouse I think, the GEC electric fittings, the Leyland double decker buses and towards the end of the Empire, Morris and Austin cars. The spin off of the Morris Oxford, the Ambassador was an icon of Indian motorama and the Morris Minor, called the 'Baby Taxis'
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.
Good show, It's history that we don't hear enough of in the US. America has British roots, I personally am half Scottish, we are connected in so many ways. Barrie has given me a greater appreciation for British leadership in design and engineering, and is a message that should be told.
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.
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).
@@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.
Wow! We're so glad to have found this wonderful channel. My three sons and I have really enjoyed the exceptional story telling. History is awesome. Thank you.
The Use of soap to fix petrol leaks is something I learnt 60 years ago and Just last week I was explaining /demonstrating to a young mechanic how soap works to seal petrol leaks. I have no Idea of the chemistry involved but it works.
Used the brooklands banking as a bicycle track when I was a lad ! In those days it was littered with jigs and tools from the old aero factories. Regularly chased off by security...great fun!
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.
I saw two enormous Scammel trucks abandoned in the West Coast bush in New Zealand. This was in the late 1960s, I was not aware of their historic value. They were inpenetratably surrounded by large trees so had to have been there a long time.They were mostly complete, too hard to get bits out. I had forgotten this memory until this video.
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.🇬🇧
What a great series! Facts, facts and more facts. Actual historic artifacts brought alive. Silly me, here I thought 80% of these advancements were invented in the USA before watching a few of these!
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!
It's pretty sad to watch these documentaries of the "good ol' days of the British Empire".. It reminds me of some old guy talking about his glory days when he was 20 and banging everything that had two legs and walked upright. Today's Britain is a sad sorry shadow of its former self...
So many salty Yanks in the comments on every episode who hear what they want to hear and seem to lack a nuanced comprehension of English. Nothing that has been said by the presenter is incorrect. And yes, we know, Chris Barrie was in Red Dwarf. It's amazing that an actor from a thing you know is on television in another thing! How exciting! If you want to appear less like ignorant tosspots, try not just namedropping Red Dwarf; He's worth more than that.
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.
Meh - the safety issues of hydrogen are overstated. Consider the gas you're driving around in. It's plenty explosive too. It's all about how you manage it. In the case of the Hindenburg - the design was catastrophically poor. BTW that balloon demo was clearly helium - a 3 foot balloon would create enough of a hydrogen fireball to take them all out. You can see the helium escaping after the explosion. The crash of the 101 was particularly noteworthy as it killed all the designers who made it on impact (before the fire - the deaths weren't from the subsequent fire following the crash), and altogether more people died than the people killed by the Hindenburg disaster (which was from a grounding glitch - resolved in the Graf Zeppelin II which had accident free service until it was dismantled). Without vector thrust, and a severe amount of doppler radar and long range weather services - flying something that big for long was essentially impossible. Now? Possible - but unless new hydrogen cell designs appear it'll have to wait until a hyper-massive Helium field is developed in Africa.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?" ruclips.net/video/POO4lrTclNY/видео.html
As much as most American are reluctant to admit, the US is a Anglo-Saxon country and our history is forever linked to our Mother country, the British Empire in colonial times and UK in modern times. Much of modern world is a product of the Industrial Revolution, which started in heart of British Empire. Yes the US is a former colony, but we have always come to call of assistance from our Mother country, Great Britain. Too bad both the UK & US is trapped in this current political woke ism. We really are all bearing "The White Man's Burden" now, instead of leading as we have done for hundreds of years.
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
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.
What's with all the comments about hydrogen being implied as the fuel for airships, the way it was worded makes perfect sense to me, obviously it provided the ability to become aloft!
@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.
Personal tale re. the R101. My mother's mother died when she was 17, about 1940. Her dad went on to marry a lady called Joyce Heaton and moved to Cambridge (UK). As we lived over 300 miles away, pre motorways, we didn't visit very often but apparently one visit coincided with a visit from one of Joyce's relatives-in-law, Nevil Shute. I was less than six years old at the time so I have NO recollection of this at all, I was told this when I was way older. Nevil Shute wrote an autobiography (coincidentally published the year I was born) in which he made public all the piss poor decisions and work practices around the design and build of the R101. So there's my claim to fame - I met a guy I didn't know who wrote a book about an airship I'd never heard of.
You don’t mention that Lawrence went on to collaborate with Scott Paine at Supermarine to work on the beginning of the Spitfire series in Southhampton.
"The most massive economic collapse that the world has ever known" You ain't seen nuthin' yet pal! That is on it's way right now! And for no good reason at all.
@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.
Anyone for a follow up on contemporary Airships might be interested in looking up HAV Airlander. (BTW their Airlander 10 is 22yds 20m longer than the Antonio-225)
Hydrogen is actually quite manageable given it is pure and without any oxidizer. Pure Hydrogen gas vented to atmosphere, simply burns. But when mixed with oxygen, goes explosive. Hydrogen torches are used to solder pieces together if the criteria requires a weld that is free of impurities found in a Oxyacetylene weld.
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!
@@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.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way-in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
It's not french people how said "Félicitations, Monsieur Bentley construit les camions les plus rapides du monde", but Mr Ettore Bugatti himself, beated by the british builder. That's make sens if you compare the light Bugatti type 30, with the winning Bentley.
"les camions le plus vite" mmh, no, impossible to say this in french because "vite" is an adverb, the adjective is "rapide", we would tell "le camion le plus rapide"
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.
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.
Pity so much of Britain's military hardware was inferior to the German equipment at the outbreak of WW2. How many lives were lost trying to tackle better armed and armoured tanks? The ingenuity was there, but not the investment nor perhaps the work ethic.
A lovely presentation, but spoilt by terrible inaccuracies. No mention of the successful R100. R101 badly researched. Don’t change the format. Please revise the data.
I thought that it was sir francis chichester that first flew around the world in his gypsey moth seaplane,and again 1st round the world in his boat gypsey moth 2 ??
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"
Everyone talks about R101. Biggest - ooo, crashed and burned on its first voyage. R 100 - NOT biggest, true, 20m shorter, flew to Canada and back washout issue.
there is a truth that I feel needs to be mentioned regarding Britain in the middle east, and its the fact that Britain is the reason why the middle east is so scuffed today. Lawrence was seen as a hero at home, but he felt like, and was seen as, a traitor to those he fought beside, the people he promised freedom too. Little did he know that that promise of freedom was one big fat lie. not to say no one else had their hands in screwing the region over, but that one event altered the course of the history in the middle east.
Err we don't refuel anymore in F1 Chris (safety issues) but I believe in American NASCAR races they refuel using the same method: inverting a can of petrol through a funnel.
@@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... ;)
LOL LOL WHEN I THINK OF BRIT AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING, I AM ALSO REMINDED OF HOW IT WAS BACKED UP BY LUCAS ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS OF THE 1950s AND 60s!! LOL LOL!!
Chris Barrie is a genuine grease covered , nerdy little boy who loves playing with his toys. He is known, liked and respect in the vintage , veteran, mechanical world. He does have a real mechanical feel for equipment.
We in India can never forget British engineering in its heyday. The Marshal steam rollers, the Rolls Royce cars, the North British Locomotive Co. built locomotives, the huge static steam engines, Westinghouse I think, the GEC electric fittings, the Leyland double decker buses and towards the end of the Empire, Morris and Austin cars. The spin off of the Morris Oxford, the Ambassador was an icon of Indian motorama and the Morris Minor, called the 'Baby Taxis'
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.
Good show, It's history that we don't hear enough of in the US. America has British roots, I personally am half Scottish, we are connected in so many ways. Barrie has given me a greater appreciation for British leadership in design and engineering, and is a message that should be told.
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.
We also do the best documentaries full stop
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.
How refreshing to see actual history of the twenties--and from the other side of the pond, where we didn't have a clue at the time.
What some history! Love every minute of this.
Wow!
We're so glad to have found this wonderful channel.
My three sons and I have really enjoyed the exceptional story telling.
History is awesome.
Thank you.
The Use of soap to fix petrol leaks is something I learnt 60 years ago and Just last week I was explaining /demonstrating to a young mechanic how soap works to seal petrol leaks. I have no Idea of the chemistry involved but it works.
Used the brooklands banking as a bicycle track when I was a lad ! In those days it was littered with jigs and tools from the old aero factories. Regularly chased off by security...great fun!
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.
3rd time of watching this, Chris Barrie cracks me up
Thank you for the upload.👍🏻
I must say that I am LOVING this series so far...Arnold Rimmer found his calling! 😁😁😁😁😍😍😍😍
Did anyone catch the "smeg you" sign in this episode? I smiled...BRILLIANT Red Dwarf callback! 😂😂😂😂
Do we get a tour of the diesel decks? :D
I saw two enormous Scammel trucks abandoned in the West Coast bush in New Zealand. This was in the late 1960s, I was not aware of their historic value. They were inpenetratably surrounded by large trees so had to have been there a long time.They were mostly complete, too hard to get bits out. I had forgotten this memory until this video.
The program itself is history: A white middle-class male, not ashamed of his country, got to present it. Fabulous job National Geographic. :-)
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.
Wow. The prototype Bentley. Original car that started it all. Amazing.
I knew a guy who raced at Brooklands, I would sit with him and have a cuppa and a chat, and the stories he told were amazing.
i like this. history and motoring.
This was very interesting.
a man going around looking at and breaking history
Make Britain Great Again. Mr. Barrie can show it how.
Love those SU carburetors, best carb you can run on a Harley Davidson, nothing gives the throttle response that they do.
SU eliminator kit. Use to sell those in my younger days. Also worked on SU pumps and fuel systems at Midel.
Well done, Britain...…...………………...Not you, Khan.
GREAT VIDEO I LOVED IT !!!!!!!!!! cant believe it doesent have more veiws !!!!
6:50 Real Mark Felton vibes...
There used to be a thing called Great Britain.
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...
What a great series! Facts, facts and more facts. Actual historic artifacts brought alive. Silly me, here I thought 80% of these advancements were invented in the USA before watching a few of these!
I kinda had my suspensions about the light bulb with T.A. Edison's sketchy reputation.
im happy to say Brooklands now possesses some plasters, a bucket and the shovel
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?
Wonderful story.
Wow. this documentary is wonderful.
Riding the Brough Superior like a boss - in German navy boots.
Geez, don't tell me about Atco mowers! When I was but a youth, I had to cut an acre of our garden lawn with one of those every week!
Rimmer! Great presenter.
Enjoyed this!
It's pretty sad to watch these documentaries of the "good ol' days of the British Empire".. It reminds me of some old guy talking about his glory days when he was 20 and banging everything that had two legs and walked upright. Today's Britain is a sad sorry shadow of its former self...
Your time will come. Ni ming bai ma?
I like this history and the motoring I also like steam locomotives 😄
Yet for some reason the railways were not interested in this new fuel... Took them 30 years!
6:16 "Drive the oldest Bentley in existence." What do you do after that?
Drive the latest Bentley Continental GT...
London Transport liked AEC engines, and the Scammell Pioneers had Gardner 6LW, 8.4 litre, 102 BHP diesel engines. Max 1750 RPM.
So many salty Yanks in the comments on every episode who hear what they want to hear and seem to lack a nuanced comprehension of English. Nothing that has been said by the presenter is incorrect.
And yes, we know, Chris Barrie was in Red Dwarf. It's amazing that an actor from a thing you know is on television in another thing! How exciting! If you want to appear less like ignorant tosspots, try not just namedropping Red Dwarf; He's worth more than that.
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.
Meh - the safety issues of hydrogen are overstated. Consider the gas you're driving around in. It's plenty explosive too. It's all about how you manage it. In the case of the Hindenburg - the design was catastrophically poor. BTW that balloon demo was clearly helium - a 3 foot balloon would create enough of a hydrogen fireball to take them all out. You can see the helium escaping after the explosion.
The crash of the 101 was particularly noteworthy as it killed all the designers who made it on impact (before the fire - the deaths weren't from the subsequent fire following the crash), and altogether more people died than the people killed by the Hindenburg disaster (which was from a grounding glitch - resolved in the Graf Zeppelin II which had accident free service until it was dismantled).
Without vector thrust, and a severe amount of doppler radar and long range weather services - flying something that big for long was essentially impossible. Now? Possible - but unless new hydrogen cell designs appear it'll have to wait until a hyper-massive Helium field is developed in Africa.
re: " balloon demo was clearly helium "
A 'fireball' with Helium? You don't say ...
My dad drove a tank transport in the desert like at 15:01. 8th Army Desert Rats.
chris: finishes a sentence
chris: 😐
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
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As much as most American are reluctant to admit, the US is a Anglo-Saxon country and our history is forever linked to our Mother country, the British Empire in colonial times and UK in modern times. Much of modern world is a product of the Industrial Revolution, which started in heart of British Empire. Yes the US is a former colony, but we have always come to call of assistance from our Mother country, Great Britain. Too bad both the UK & US is trapped in this current political woke ism. We really are all bearing "The White Man's Burden" now, instead of leading as we have done for hundreds of years.
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
Wow I wish that the ability to fly was so simple these days
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.
What's with all the comments about hydrogen being implied as the fuel for airships, the way it was worded makes perfect sense to me, obviously it provided the ability to become aloft!
Back in the days when "British" meant "good". I often wonder why they pretty much just stopped designing or manufacturing anything decent.
Smoke me a kipper,il be back for breakfast!
26:00 This is pretty much me in BF1, except he's shooting at me the entire time
Boffin isn't a word used in the US. Just another example of two peoples separated by a common language.
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.
Personal tale re. the R101.
My mother's mother died when she was 17, about 1940. Her dad went on to marry a lady called Joyce Heaton and moved to Cambridge (UK). As we lived over 300 miles away, pre motorways, we didn't visit very often but apparently one visit coincided with a visit from one of Joyce's relatives-in-law, Nevil Shute. I was less than six years old at the time so I have NO recollection of this at all, I was told this when I was way older. Nevil Shute wrote an autobiography (coincidentally published the year I was born) in which he made public all the piss poor decisions and work practices around the design and build of the R101.
So there's my claim to fame - I met a guy I didn't know who wrote a book about an airship I'd never heard of.
Incredible times
You don’t mention that Lawrence went on to collaborate with Scott Paine at Supermarine to work on the beginning of the Spitfire series in Southhampton.
"The greatest mower of all time" - you can just hear Arnold J Rimmer saying that.
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.
23:36 that's where internet comment etiquette got his intro song, haha. Good bless Erik
"The most massive economic collapse that the world has ever known"
You ain't seen nuthin' yet pal! That is on it's way right now! And for no good reason at all.
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.
So post ww1 Britain was basically just like post ww2 USA? In that it was the time of prosperity and spreading out of living
Anyone for a follow up on contemporary Airships might be interested in looking up HAV Airlander.
(BTW their Airlander 10 is 22yds 20m longer than the Antonio-225)
I'd feel compelled to pay them for all of these great things you get to do.
Too bad theres not a channel on TV that would play content like this. Maybe you could call it discovery channel
Rimmer is that you?
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
Hydrogen is actually quite manageable given it is pure and without any oxidizer. Pure Hydrogen gas vented to atmosphere, simply burns. But when mixed with oxygen, goes explosive. Hydrogen torches are used to solder pieces together if the criteria requires a weld that is free of impurities found in a Oxyacetylene weld.
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.
A broken thumb was the usual result of gripping a 4wd wheel too tightly until even recently.
STRANGE TO SEE CARDINGTON HANGER'S, I WORKED THERE WHEN IT WAS USED AS A PLASTIC'S WAREHOUSE
Reminds me of USSR propaganda video. Greatest of all time.
Bloody hell!!! what is it that you have done to the fish on 21:10.!?
Those are fake fish.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way-in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Agreed
Just like Service Men Now. They keep craving speed and risk, after risking so much.
Please tell me they nicknamed the ship the Air Titanic
It's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer.
He's more reliable than a garden strimmer.
RImmer RImmer arnold Rimmer without him life would be so dimmer lalalala
Hydrogen and airship--- always a recipe for disaster
A full tank does not slouch.
It's not french people how said "Félicitations, Monsieur Bentley construit les camions les plus rapides du monde", but Mr Ettore Bugatti himself, beated by the british builder. That's make sens if you compare the light Bugatti type 30, with the winning Bentley.
"les camions le plus vite" mmh, no, impossible to say this in french because "vite" is an adverb, the adjective is "rapide", we would tell "le camion le plus rapide"
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.
31:01 Actually, that's the De Havilland Jude.
1920: 1st dedicated petrol filling station opened, at Brookwood, by the AA.?
this guy is cool but i cannot take him siriusley i always think of old goal post head
Personally its mr brittas lol
What about the R100? The R38?
24:46 what is this song' name
Wot ? The R101 was built with sixteen giant gas bags . That's ample Mothers in law to keep her aloft , I doth surmise .
I sad too 😞 Steve.
why are all these britain motor companies gone (Leyland,..)
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.
When you have to look to history to see something good we british made
Pity so much of Britain's military hardware was inferior to the German equipment at the outbreak of WW2. How many lives were lost trying to tackle better armed and armoured tanks? The ingenuity was there, but not the investment nor perhaps the work ethic.
A lovely presentation, but spoilt by terrible inaccuracies. No mention of the successful R100. R101 badly researched. Don’t change the format. Please revise the data.
I thought that it was sir francis chichester that first flew around the world in his gypsey moth seaplane,and again 1st round the world in his boat gypsey moth 2 ??
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"
Everyone talks about R101. Biggest - ooo, crashed and burned on its first voyage.
R 100 - NOT biggest, true, 20m shorter, flew to Canada and back washout issue.
This show reminds me of how Gates became a mega business tycoon, buy out the Comp
there is a truth that I feel needs to be mentioned regarding Britain in the middle east, and its the fact that Britain is the reason why the middle east is so scuffed today. Lawrence was seen as a hero at home, but he felt like, and was seen as, a traitor to those he fought beside, the people he promised freedom too. Little did he know that that promise of freedom was one big fat lie.
not to say no one else had their hands in screwing the region over, but that one event altered the course of the history in the middle east.
Err we don't refuel anymore in F1 Chris (safety issues) but I believe in American NASCAR races they refuel using the same method: inverting a can of petrol through a funnel.
They did when this prog' was made though :)
right way to say it is "le plus rapide des camions", not "le camion le plus vite" ;)
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.
At 45:00 No, hydrogen was not a fuel, it was a lifting gas in airships.
Where are the steam engines I came for steam engines..
One Olympic sized swimming pool holds 2,500,000 litres or 2500m³
Olympic size pools measure: 50 metres long, 25 metres wide, and a minimum of 2 metres deep.
(88286,7 Cubic feet)
Today, it's the 1920s again but for electric vehicles.
Steel? I thought it was duraluminum
Its only History. Now what is there?
so the british Invented Nascar?
7:57 It was not taken over by a slower car. The car that took it over was faster, from the benefit of better brakes. Top speed ain't everything.
LOL LOL
WHEN I THINK OF BRIT AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING, I AM ALSO REMINDED OF HOW IT WAS BACKED UP BY LUCAS ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS OF THE 1950s AND 60s!!
LOL LOL!!
It worked better than Lucas of the 70s and 80s cough cough BL
Lucas, prince of darkness.