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Luke Hall
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 2 ธ.ค. 2007
I am a Commercial Pilot, Chief Flying Instructor, Flight Examiner, Display pilot & Head of General Aviation.
Crossness Rotative Beam Engine "Prince Consort" Running Under Steam - Detailed 4K Footage
This detailed 4K footage was taken during an open day in April 2024. It features the beautiful and gigantic Prince Consort Beam Engine running under steam.
Victoria, Prince Consort, Albert-Edward and Alexandra Originally single cylinder engines from the James Watt Co. in Birmingham, they were all substantially upgraded to 3 cylinder engines in 1895-1901 by the Benjamin Goodfellow Co from Hyde in Cheshire. At this time a front addition was built onto the engine house. This addition housed two triple expansion engines, there to help with the pumping whilst the beam engines were upgraded.
The beam engines were seeing very little use by the 1930’s due to the majority of the pumping beingdone by more efficient engines and pumps housed in other buildings. When the 1895 triple expansion engines were removed in the late 1940’s and subsequently replaced with diesel engines driving very efficient centrifugal pumps, the beam engines days were all but numbered. The beam engine house was abandoned completely by the mid 1950’s.
Victoria, Prince Consort, Albert-Edward and Alexandra Originally single cylinder engines from the James Watt Co. in Birmingham, they were all substantially upgraded to 3 cylinder engines in 1895-1901 by the Benjamin Goodfellow Co from Hyde in Cheshire. At this time a front addition was built onto the engine house. This addition housed two triple expansion engines, there to help with the pumping whilst the beam engines were upgraded.
The beam engines were seeing very little use by the 1930’s due to the majority of the pumping beingdone by more efficient engines and pumps housed in other buildings. When the 1895 triple expansion engines were removed in the late 1940’s and subsequently replaced with diesel engines driving very efficient centrifugal pumps, the beam engines days were all but numbered. The beam engine house was abandoned completely by the mid 1950’s.
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Home-built Model Beam Steam Engine Completed
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This is the first run of Dad's model Beam Engine under steam after final finishing and painting. He's really pleased that it runs very consistently at both low and high speeds. The next project is underway, so stay tuned!
Mclaren Solus GT Silverstone Test
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The mighty Mclaren Solus GT Track day car. This amazing machine sounds incredible, particularly at full throttle and on lift-off. This is number 3 of only 25 to be built being tested at Silverstone in April 2024. One recently sold for more than £3,000,000 Powered by a naturally aspirated V10 revving to over 10,000 RPM and producing 840 PS (829 hp; 618 kW), 650 N⋅m (479 lb⋅ft)
Dad & Humphrey playing retro Console Pong
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Cambridge Centre for Computing History
Rotax Kart Testing Session at Ellough Park
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Humphrey testing out a Rotax Lando Kart at Ellough Park Raceway. This was his first experience in a 2-stroke kart on an unfamiliar circuit in damp slippery conditions.
Dad's first home-built Steam Engine under steam
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My Dad is developing his machining and model engineering skills by building miniature steam engines in his home workshop. This is the result of his first completed model and work is now well underway on his second model, a much larger beam engine. Stay tuned for updates!
Rob Huff Karting at Wildtracks 2006
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Here's some vintage video of World Touring Car champion Rob Huff messing around in our Senior Kart at Wildtracks in Suffolk back in 2006. Rob will be competing in the 2024 British Touring cars Championship!
BT Openreach van narrowly misses cyclists on an empty country road.
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BT Openreach van narrowly misses cyclists on an empty country road.
A trip over the Beast at Thetford Forest.
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A trip over the Beast at Thetford Forest.
Assetto Corsa - Brands Hatch GP Ferrari 488 GT3
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Assetto Corsa - Brands Hatch GP Ferrari 488 GT3
Luge Monty Express, Montgenevre, France
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Luge Monty Express, Montgenevre, France
Super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The thing is so beautiful! Words fail.
Hard hat mania on display! I did not realise that stationary steam engines could leap up and fall on to onlookers heads. I suppose if one of those massive beams did fall from the ceiling the hard hats would protect people from being crushed.
What other civilization on this planet could have produced this? Only the Brits.
It's interesting that they play classical music in the engine room
When I’m eventually forced to buy an electric car I hope there is a JUDD V10 option for the in car and outside car sound.
Sounds better than new f1 cars
Shit pumping metal
Been there, it's so impressive. Excellent video but could do with a commentary instead of the music, though I understand if you are just a casual visitor you may not have the necessary knowledge to provide one.
Going into the wall with this one.
And, why is everyone wearing hard hats? The U.K. has gone mad😡
I love these Victorian cathedrals of engineering.
Ah, the beautiful wonders of Victorian engineering 😍 Great music choice - Suk sounds very English here - but once the din of the machine and public starts, it's pretty pointless.
New dream car unlocked
Built with no computers ! 😊😊
Such mechanical beauty, for pumping and dumping the most mundane and fundamental human waste products directly into the Thames at every high tide.
Remember seeing the insides of that building and the engine when it was derelict many years ago. My father was the site safety officer when he retired from the Kent Fire Brigade. Absolutely fantastic to see the building and engine restored. Would love to visit when I am back down that way.
I still have yet to find a v10 that doesn't sound good.
It is scientifically proven that 5 and 10 cylinders produce the most audibly pleasing sounds. I shit you not, look it up.
@@unkindled6410 oh I know. Is because the primary and secondary tones produce a perfect fifth.
Way this music???😡
100 year old still going strong even when our 21st century electric cars die or catch fire.
Profi-Video 👍
Great Video 😊
Don't want the music, just the sound of the engines please
The music is barely audible through most of the video. The engine is far louder than the music!
The engine is music on it's own.
Could've done w/o the music. Just the sound of the beast!
11 years later and it's still available for purchase... Wow, the Jetcat P80 SE sure is a classic❤
Here in Auckland NZ we still have a beam engine housed in its original mid-Victorian brick pumphouse, as the centrepiece of Auckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT). Commissioned in March 1877. Coal-fired boilers operated a steam engine driving a 16.3 tonne, 6.25 m diameter flywheel and 7.3 m beam operated twin pumps raising up to 13,600 cubic metres of water per day to the Ponsonby Reservoir.
Fantastic video, but sadly ruined by the background music.
I’m so sorry I ruined it!
Elegant engineering in a beautiful building. Not to forget the "dark satanic mills" which consumed people like coal to produce it.
I was so confused at first I thought that was a game like Assetto corsa or something, since the Video quality was so bad :D
Smooth!
The reason I never fly over water!
Plumbing get your plumbing here pipe the sh-t right out of your house.
And there's more "oop north" too ! Visit the Bolton Steam Museum to see all varieties of steam engines built for the cotton mills. However, one of the last mills to be built, Kearsley Mill, in Prestolee village, built 1906, although steam-powered, the steam drove steam turbines connected to generators. The mill machinery was all powered by electric motors. The electric age had started and steam turbines are still used to generate it.
Is it just me, or are those hard hats worn inside just a bit weird? As if that's gonna save you from anything 😂
Theater
I thought that too but when climbing the narrow stairs to the upper level and smacking my head on a steel beam, I could see why we were given them.
Music so annoying and unnecessary
Ah, sorry you didn't like it. I was unsure whether or not to keep the music, so I made it very quiet. The majority seem to like it though...
@@Chief-Instructor Some people just want to be annoyed. I thought it was hard to hear over the talking and it probably wouldn't have mattered if you took it out, but it wasn't annoying. In fact, it's kind of fascinating that you can hear the music and people talking over the sound of that obviously powerful engine and pump.
The Victorians did not in any way lack ambition. 👍
These days its just NIMBY
The moment I seen this beauty, I fell in love with it, It's majestic, design, and operation, brought tears of envy to my eyes, Thank's for sharing.
The moment I saw this, not seen.
You're most welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
Majestic. That word crossed my mind too. Beautiful stuff!
How utterly British~
Amazing.
The very definition of "magnificent"! I see the other two pumps setting there, I assume that's what this station looked like, cleaned up a lot, back in the day, years after the station was new. I wonder what it must have felt like working there, both when the machines and the paint were new, before time and neglect took their poll and in the Edwardian Age, when machines were just machines and not Art?
Well, for one thing, unlike the video you see here, nobody was wearing down jackets. They would’ve been wool in the winter.
@@davidgold5961 I suspect it would have been hot as Hell in there, all year around. Even though those big tubes are the pumps, they probably were pretty tight while the seals on most steam engines of that time leaked like crazy with steam and hot water everywhere. Probably pretty noisy too. The two other pumps in the shot have been steam cleaned so they aren't caked with greasy dirt but I'll bet they used to be. But that would have been later, after the newness wore off and such engines where in many places and not so artistically housed nor cared for.
Great video.
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
A purely utilitarian device , but the detailing of the structure is awe inspiring . A cathedral of engineering.
Even engineering spaces were decorated in a manner similar to Victorian homes.
When investors were not bean counters and took actual pride to build magnificent machines the result was astounding. Imagine the replacement in a shipping container placed randomly by sewage company nowadays.
Steam has an elegance that cannot be topped by electric or diesel. The visible slow moving parts.
Thank you 😊😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
That was absolutely breath taking! I feel like I was just watching a ballet in some grand palace... yet it's a steam engine in a sewage pumping station... I just don't get why we can't have such incredible spaces today...
Thanks for your feedback :-) I procrastinated over whether or not to add background music, as I worried that some may find it distracting. Hopefully I got the balance right!
" I just don't get why we can't have such incredible spaces today..." It ain't rocket science. It's because it costs a lot of money. There's no reason we couldn't have ornamental cast iron architectural details in today's sewerage lift stations ... except that it costs a lot of money, and there's not really any point in it. As a taxpayer, I'd be pretty pissed off if my municipality spent a couple of extra million dollars of tax dollars putting decoration inside a sewerage lift station, that was only going to be seen by the employees of the sewerage utility.
You really don't get it, do you.
@@Chief-Instructor It's fitting. It's what they should be playing there at the museum.
Machinery was art. So impressive!
Yeah. Even those scalloped decks plates. Pretty amazing.
Almost makes one proud to be human
What are the odds they put this engine in a road car? im not paying 250k plus for a turbo hybrid.
Hope PD add this car in GT7 cause is base on the Mclaren VGT and the Mclaren Sabre took inspiration from the VGT 😮
it IS McLaren's Vision GT
Thanks for the video. Nice.