Britain's Greatest Machines with Chris Barrie - S01E01: 1930s - The Road to War (2.0 Stereo, 360p)
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- A WWII tank, a Sentinel steam lorry and an award-winning aircraft all feature in Chris' look at the 1930s, when mass production came to Britain.
Sorry about the 360p i couldn't find a HD verision of this.
This man who made us laugh as Rimmer on Red Dwarf is a delight hosting these shows- he does if with style and grace.
Kryton, Unpack Rachael and get out the puncture repair kit...
And enthusiasm - you've got to get a kick out of how much he enjoys what he's doing!
@@MrAlumni72 Watch Industrial Revelations. A great comedian in Mark Williams but brings across a serious feeling of interest in what he's presenting which like these shows helps so much in helping you digest all the info.
I like how he also throws in subtle nods to Red Dwarf in each episode...watch out for his "salute" reference along with "smoked kippers"...he'll be back for breakfast! 😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
Rimmer has a whole different meaning here in the USA.
Had to laugh when Chris was driving the Morris 8 and making reference to how one signalled a left-turn in a car with no indicator lights....akin to a certain salute he made elsewhere..... smeggin' hell that was classic!
Chris Barrie playing with a toy car and making noises...PRECIOUS!!
Bonnie Chiaccio this program is trully a treat :)
It’s the best way to remain sane.
You observation was observed and liked :)
at what bit? 4:55?
He’s basically a little kid at heart...
Croydon air field, now has a musuem,. The place where the term 'Mayday' was invented. Chris Barrie is a genuine vintage vehicle enthusiast. He does know what he 's talking about , and can do it. Rapides were operated in the early 1930's to Jersey. They landed on St Aubin's Beach. There is an acident report of one machine, hitting the harbour wall on take off.
Brilliant video - Chris Barrie is one great and enjoyable gent to listen to, love his enthusiasm.
Thanks for sharing! Love seeing these shows in US via the modern formats we have now!
"It bears resemblance to a certain salute I have to perform every now and then" :D
Chris Barrie! What a guy!
Now that is a comment I can get behind!
what a "guy"
They hired the wrong Chris when they hired for Top Gear
yeah. chris eubank would have been better.
Defo barrie would have been good i feel like I'm watching a Clarkson documentary its really that good
Nobody loves Chris Harris as much as Chris Harris. CB could have been very good.
@Mike Clifton that is the best explanation that I have ever heard about Harris.
this is my favorite series right now.
Really good doc - the usual cliches but done with charm and some interesting facts for the enthusiastic
I didn't realize who he was until he talked about the "left turn signal" being like a salute he was familiar with.
When my parents got married my mother did not have a driver’s license. Dad taught her and they left Woodsboro Maryland mom driving and went to Westminster Maryland where the test was given. When the inspector asked her where she lived and she told him he then asked did she drive the whole way she said yes. That was her entire test as inspector said if you could drive that distance over that road you pass.
Great video, as usual. Packard Motors in the US were granted rights to make the Merlin. They took the design and perfected it, building an enormous factory to churn them out. There's a film on RUclips documenting this. The Packard version had fewer parts, greater efficiency and reliability. So sad that Packard "packed it in" after the war.
Dead Frt West _____ Packard made Merlins under license to a precise Rolls Royce specification. It was a manufacturing operation only. All the design developments were made by Rolls Royce. Packard changed one single bearing.Massive "improvement".
@@burlatsdemontaigne6147 Packard had to completely re-draft all of the drawings for the Merlin to make them 3rd-angle projections, which was the American standard. They also changed all of the fasteners, splines, and fluid fittings to conform to American SAE standards. Packard, by far, was no neophyte to powerful engine designs. They also completely designed and manufactured the LM2500 engine for US PT boats.
No offense to the Spitfire, she was after all a great plane, but Hurricane's played a much bigger part in defending England during the battle. But I was impressed that they included the information about the Snyder Cup. Good video.
Oh ffs, this show isn't about the Battle Of Britain.
@MichaelKingsfordGray :: Well said!!
The story relates the S6b to the Spitfire. Much as I respect the Hurricane as an unsung hero, it had nothing to do with the S6b.
Actually the Hurricane did most of the fighting against the bombers, the Spitfires went after the German fighters.
Tommy Estridge thank you someone who actually knows history. That irratated me to no end
Annnd I believe that at a glance so thank you so much.
Everybody pretty much knows this by now. The reason why the Hurricane isn't featured here, is that this is a show about engineering breakthroughs, and not about British fighter planes. The Hurricane was good and useful, but simply not groundbreaking. Besides, if it weren't for the Spitfire, the Germans would've eaten up the Hurricanes.
@@Phoenix-xn3sf I fear not, the Hurri could out turn a 109... just. The later German A/C would have, of course, made short work of them.
Yep, Hurricanes had many more "kills" than Spitfires. In fact, it was reported that some German pilots would lie and say they were shot down by Spitfires to save the embarassment of being shot down by a Hurricane (which is by no means a slur on the Hurricane, just a nod towards the magnificence of the Spitfire).
Rimmer sure does a great job Presenting!!!!
Two flying Spits are based at Sywell, Northants, & regularly fly right over my house on their way to Duxford, and back via Sibbertoft, unmistakeable sound. You can have a 20 minute joyride for £2800 (plus VAT). (Also, one of the last flights of the Vulcan flew right over me at about 800'. Amazing,)
I loved the bird flying faster than the train!
I think that the Dragon looked very advanced for the day. The cabin especially !!!
Spitfire is definitely worth to metion but it's so annoying that Hurricane is always underestimated.
Spit has sex appeal which the Hurricane lacked
Wind in wind tunnels is drawn through, not blasted through as this causes turbulence.
only thing better than a spitfire idling on the apron is going to be a lancaster with all 4 merlins idling!
It's true, he was great as Rimmer, and he is great here. I hope he makes some movies
Hurricane is always overlooked lol. Why does every documentary always forget about the hurricane.
I liked but also must say, weoll ok I´ll say he could have posted a pic on it but there was limited time to make the show so just keep it simple and tell .. well.. he is a genius.
The Hurricane simply wasn't groundbreaking enough for this show. Remember, this show wasn't about WWII fighters, it's about engineering breakthroughs
Very true! Battle of Britain: 19 squadrons of Spitfires, 33 squadrons of Hurricanes. Britain was saved by the skill and courage of pilots operating both these marvels.
Lol! it's so funny watching Chris doing this programme , i'm still thinking , 'Rimmer', coz he's exactly the same! haha!
Fascinating and informative.
And a Double Rimmer Salute to you Sir!
The Spitfire was truly a masterpiece of engineering at that time. The Rolls Royce engine sounds great and performs very well. It had only one flaw...the carburetor. It prevented it from making loops like the German fighter planes could because they had gasoline injection. A carburetor will simply empty itself when tipped upside down, thus the engine will die in a matter of seconds.
@soaringtractor You need to do some actual research. The Spitfires used in the B of B did not have injection systems so the carburetor DID empty itself when nosed down pursuing diving enemy fighters due to negative g forces and the engines would die. Pilots learned to do 1/2 rolls before diving to compensate for this. Merlin didn't use the Bendix pressure carburetor until 1942.
Great video, thank you for the upload
de Havilland Dragon Rapide:
I used to see them everyday on the Isle of White-Croydon route with the mail.
Smoke him a kipper, he'll be back for breakfast!
What a guy!
Jonny One-Truck. Stoke me a clipper I will be back for Christmas.
Now they should put passengers through size boxes based on the standard size & spacing of coach seating. If they don’t fit, they must buy an extra ticket.
WE had the Y2K Spit here in Comox last year. What a thrill!
Schneider Trophy When the French and Italian teams dropped out, leaving no other competitors, the British team flew the course alone on 13 September and won the coveted Schneider Trophy outright.
Love that Mark Felton intro music.
ace rimmer- What a guy!
What a guy!!!
A little fact that is understandably over looked about Mallards record run was the fact that it broke itself in doing so. One of its bearings inside got too hot and desintegrated. Then had to be towed back for repair. I'm all for a bit of national pride. But if asked to do it again and again, It simply couldn't.
Record attempts, by definition, are not meant to be repeated over and over.
Note the bird challenging the train's speed (21:05 to 21:15).
Yes I did notice, I didn't think pheasnts could fly that fast, then again with someone firing a 12 gage at you ,what would you do.
When I was a kid plane-spotter at Heathrow airport's open-air public area in the mid 1950s, you could have a joy-ride in Dragon Rapide for thirty shillings ... way more than I could afford.
at least no H on Rimmer's forehead...the race to Australia included the KLM doing a normal routine. The RAF named it Dominie. Even the Irish had such aircraft :)
The Rolls Royce R type, the engine block later developed to become the Griffon, powering later marks of Spitfire. (XII, XIV/XIX, XVIII, 21, 22 & 24)
in USA we did streamlined locos BUT maintaining was a pain in the butt cause the streamlining on the loco
i reckon usa was not interested in trains, they were into cars and rockets etc.
Just to add ... The Gresley Mallard was limited in top speed basically because even when fitted with auto stoking - the coal couldn't be fed in quick enough. Second - the Spitfire and S6 / S6B were GLYCOL cooled not water ..
Sweden also used Unemployed people to build roads these are called AK-roads in Sweden AK comes from the Unemployment committee's initials (in swedish)
Cool. But they took the jobs off the roadworkers then and they starved and moved to belgium..
26:16 "Smoked kipper", now where have I heard that before?!😄😄😄
Thanks for shearing !!
The sheep thank you too
"You might resemble a Stoked Clipper!"
Mum took me and my sister for holiday to Blackpool about 1948. I don’t know how it happened but a chap offered mum my fare and so I went on a trip in a DH Rapide flying for the first time around the tower.
❤🇬🇧😊 thank you.
The greatest locomotive of all time is a matter of opinion. Some might say that it was the London Midland Scottish's Black Five, others; the Great Western's Hall, or the London North Eastern's A4.
Chapelon Pacific? Superpower Berkshires?
LOL "One would hope so Sir."
I actually passed my tests car and Mcycle using hand signals 1961 ! When did indicators take over ?
Dragon Rapide i have flown in one of these at Biggin Hill very slow when you take off it looks like the plane has stopped i think it takes off at 60 miles an hour the plane i went in had duck boards on the floor because underneath was just canvas so for a quick exit just step of the boards
When is the episode about the Hammond organ?
In WW2 my father was medevaced in a Dragon Rapide....told me that the wings flexed alarmingly
I love his style I wonder what make his clothes are?
Fascinating
I guess it didn't mention the hurricane because this was about cutting edge tech?? P.S. always thought the crusader 'looked' right.
Spitfire "After the aircraft’s rejection in 1934, Mitchell and his team revised the designed under the designation Type 300 which would result in a whole Ministry specification based around it and become known as the Spitfire."
Spitfire Society Mitchell
21:07 Did anyone notice the Pheasant?
I've flown in the rapide dragon. It's a great plane.
suuuuuuuuuurrrrrreeeeeeeeeee you have, we believe you
@@gewizz2
I have. £30 for 15 minutes at Duxford. Google it.
@@roundhousetrainspotting fuuuuuuucccccckkkkkkkk oooooooffffffffffffffffffffff m8
@@gewizz2
Calm down. Don't shit your knickers
I love the 30s. The styles and technologies. However, I do realize I love the 30s because I didn’t live them as one of the 99% of the population.
2:12 that bloke's rug is unforgiveable...
All the period clips shown when talking about the Panzer III were actually of the Panzer II.
you reckon?
p a s k a p u h e
Hard to believe the still much depended on DC3 was developed in the 30s.
The water in that horse trough looked nasty.....
Was Chris the inspiration for Alan Partridge?
/?April 22nd 19....is that timw NY GOOD?
Croydon Airport looks the same as Rand Airport, near Johannesburg, to this day - that was also designed and built in about 1930!
Not the not so deliberate mistake ..... in the model of the wind tunnel (22 mins) ...... the fan is put in front of the model , which breaks up the clean flow, the usual position, as i understand it, is behind the model, so there is laminar flow over the model & by the time it gets to the fan the information has been gained.
Smeeeeee...Smeeeeeeeg...Heeeeeee...Smeeeeeg...Heeeeed
shut up meg
@@gewizz2 Grim Derp-er is more like it.
Music sound track is by The Beta Brothers, checkout more audio clips at their website here: betabrothers(.)co(.)uk/music-for-tv/national-geographic/5-chris-barrie-britains-greatest-machines-series-1.html
He's so English ! ☺☺
how come tea isnt on this list?
What happened with the 1970's?
Bernardo Neira Brunetti the 70's is a decade best forgotten :).
technically it never existed, there is only now, tomorrow never comes.
Bernardo Neira Brunetti
British Leyland took care of the 1970’s.
the man who make aircraft to said he dead before went to service
As a youngster I flew from Aberdeen (Dyce) to Skye in a Rapide....and the pilot was a woman...and she parked it herself......
The U.S. does give a same if most deals aren't done in the USD!
"Mass production techniques, pioneered by Morris's factory guru, Leonard Lord, meant the cars were plentiful and cheap." England had Leonard Lord, America had Henry Ford. Ford? Lord? Interesting "coincidence", don't you think?
America went Britain one better because we had E.L. Cord.
Maybe he does only live once. Theoretically possible I suppose.
how about the de havlilland comet first jet airliner
@soaringtractor Also known as the machine that uncovered - and solved - the problem of metal fatigue, without which, American airliners would have been falling out of the skies like flies. There are penalties to being first, and benefits to being second.
I hope they really didn't use that dirty trough water in that great steam truck....
The Spitfire was amazing in many aspects, but firepower was not one of them lol.
tell the germans that as they fell from the sky over england
@@essexginge9167 weren't most shot down by Hurricane's.
@@Jack-Hands That's true for bombers, not fighters, as I understand it.
@@Jack-Hands As mentioned elsewhere.... Hurricanes were mostly deployed against bombers....Spitfires against fighters. Horses for courses?
21:10 anyone else notice the pheasant?
Poland not so much the pk3 but the pk1 and pk2.
`27 litre to produce 340 horse ,,,, and today a 5 litre can produce 340 horse with easy and do
340hp to save on rebuilds, in the days of Meteor production and WW2/post war era (V-12, based off the Merlin, but not the same parts or materials used in it), usually 650hp, ..but thats a f%*k-ton of torque at 1200rpm though..
Well, that was just the start. The later models of the Merlin were capable of 1500 Hp with a compressor. That shows the real potential of that engine. It performed so great the Peregrine and Vulture models were taken out of production. So...this engine was by no means weak and laughable...one has got to start somewhere.
@@kalleklp7291 The special Merlin's used on the DH Hornet fighters cleared over 2,000 hp.
@45:18 that's not how that works...
It was hurricane ,who saved England from the hin will Merlin to turn it's prop and 8 Browning guns
Yes England did have a world beating, or at least German Luftwaffe (With Huge Tactical and Strategic help from the ever arrogant German Goreing--who never did get a develop a good understanding of the tactics of Air Warfare and Air Power even in World War One when he was given command of the famous, and infamous, Flying circus after Germany's Ace of Aces was killed, the Red Baron--and of course old Adolf Hitler himself, at almost every step in the crucial battle that ultimately led to Germany's defeat).
And that Fighter Aircraft was....The Hurricane, not the Spitfire, although in fairness the combination was very important. But the fact is that not only were there far more Hurricanes available when the battle began but due to the car simpler construction methods and materials far more Hurricanes could be produced than could Spitfirrs with their cutting edge technologies and materials that few could initially master, at a time when raw numbers were far more important than the slight advantages the Spitfire might offer, although on the whole both were roughly equal in the skies at that time. The Hurricanes could also be repaired and put back into service far quicker than the Spitfires as well. It was mostly due to those very attributes of the Hurricane that England quickly realized more new and repaired aircraft closing to the fighter based than were lost daily in combat, far outproducing the German factories.
However, due to that baffling English trait of extreme stubbornness especially when it's obvious it's wrong, all was not a rosey picture and almost cost England the war. The Rolls Merlin engines for both the Spitfire and Hurricane were not fuel injected as the German 109s were, giving the Germans a huge set of advantages. They had the luxury of entering or exiting combat at will simply by divig, which would cost the British pilot his life of he did the same to follow evade as his engine would quit.
Also the decision to modify the Browning M2 .50 Cal Machine Guns they were armed with to fire the standard British army rifle .303 Round meant that both fighters had realistically endemic hitting power especially if the English pilots engaged at the maximum ranges they were instructed to and trained for before the war. The bomber gunners on the big heavy bombers and coastal patrol never did switch to heavier caliburguns. Dowding believed the RAF was undergunned even from the being until the fighters finally went with the heavier 20mm cannons, although many still believe that Six .50 Cal fast firing MGs like most American fighters carried, would still have given the spits greater hitting power than the much slower fireing 2 or 4 20mm cannons. What cannot be argued is that many more German aircraft would have never returned to England had the British fighters been armed with the .50 or 20mm options, how many no One can guess but at that time every single German shot down could literally have made the difference between victory or defeat both in the battle and war.
Smeg Head !
Rimmer rules"
YOLO!
Who's just hear for the A4s like i am
lmao fear of flying for a Dwarf Boy? naaaa lol never
in an otherwise excellent series - out on a limb with the spitfire wing appraisal :: the elliptical design was originally a german research model keenly employed by supermarine :: eight .303 bore guns proved both ineffective in attack and tiresome to reload :: but chocks away H :: who would ever have thought . . . an HaightchGeeVee licence has thee bah gum !!
The .303 Browning machine guns may not have had the punch of the .50 cal guns or enough punch to rip holes in the Luftwaffe's self sealing fuel tanks but they were NOT ineffective. Both the Spitfire and Hurricane used 8 guns (4 per wing). The difference was the Hurricanes four guns were closer together on each wing, making for a tighter and more destructive concentration of fire. The Royal Air Force lost 1017 fighters during the Battle of Britain vs more than 1700 German aircraft (and 2662 experienced pilots and aircrew). Tiresome to reload? War is hell!
Yes, an elliptical planform provides the optimum lift/drag ratio.
Another more egregious lapse from basic physics was the ludicrous claim at about 45:15 that because the outlet from the under-wing radiator cowlings was smaller than the intake, there was a 'ram jet' effect which would speed the plane up.
Yeah, right 🙄
5:37 #yolo
I’d be afraid to get in to that first plane.
If it isn’t Lear or Bombardier I won’t fly in it.
Spitfire was the greatest for Britain maybe. But not the greatest fighter in WW2.
The greatest fighter in WW2 was the P-51D Mustang.
And yes I agree. The Spitfire is just a beautiful aircraft.
But Mustang. “Mustang is a dirty little shark”.
And a great disappointment until the RR Merlin was adopted.
ples say km/h
Bugger the KMs keep it to mph.
Only wussies use km/h