Most unfortunate that under Cat they have lost the majority of their previous customer base from Maintou to MF, to be replaced by FPT, Deutz and AGCO-Power/Sisu and JCB engines. Where did they go wrong? They cheapened out with not installing dry liners for a start. Then they went heavy on EGR for their common rail engines where everyone else bar DPS went for simpler engines with compact cooling packs which fitted existing machinery, that used less fuel by using SCR/Adblue. Apart from Cat, I'm sure they must have lost half their volume sales to rivals over the last twelve years to 2021.
Being a retired plant fitter I worked on and serviced a lot of these Engines in all types of Machines. To be honest the Engines were rubbish, underpowered, prone to overheating with constant blue, black, white smoke and always bollocking oil out!. I don’t miss them.
my late father worked at perkins during the 70's. as a schoolboy i would see the hoards of workers leaving the gates after their shifts had ended. happy times and how i wish we as a country still had as strong a manufacturing base as we once did.
Aq no brasil sou mecanico trabalho com toda linha perk ate agora anova geraçao aq tenho um aberto 4 cilindro 1114 14 E montado na caterpila retro cescavadeira muito bom facio a montagem identico os antigos q equipava a caminhonet GM D20
Sold to Massey Ferguson once the Western worlds largest agricultural machinery manufacturer then lateral to present day it's a division of Caterpillar.
Perkins is also a global company that still makes diesels for many well known companies including Caterpillar, which also happens to be it’s current owner. The global headquarters are still in Peterborough. www.perkins.com/en_GB.html
I love how the black guy that traveled to the Perkins plant with the white and Asian man - on the way back on the train - holds the door for the other two, to get aboard the train...almost 40 years ago now...not many 'ladies' working in that plant...and pretty much everybody is, well...'white'...Those 'sophisticated computers' are quite quaint now!! They remind me of the old 'IBM' 8088's with green monochrome monitors we used to use back in the day...and the TAPE DRIVE storage system! Wow...Just think: likely a modern 'thumbdrive' could hold the information in that lot! Thanks for whoever transferred this from VHS...excellent video!
So many memories looking at this, the dodge 100 got a 6 cylinder in the end and it was so large the steering box had to be replaced every 4/5 years and it would hop 3rd gear on every hill, if you hold the stick for more than five minutes it would split the 4speed gearbox we had 4 Dodge 100 and all gearboxes exploded😂 an so did the Perkins 4.108 split it's crank oh the good old days, love the hair dos haha Thanks for the video👍
thats just one of the "high quality" english manufaturing :D I used to be work in this factory at 2017, its looks like where time is stopped around when this film made.
perkins its good diesel engine the trucks mexican brand dina buy thousands of engines now in this days en mexico keep working old trucks dina whith perkins
All this sounds great,the 6-354 was not a bad engine and the company I worked for run about 20 Seddon 16/4 flats but I don’t think any of them manage more than 150,000 miles before we had problems with them. Oil consumption was horrendous on the engines that were fitted with Chrome liners so we removed them and fitted cast iron ones. The previous vehicles we had were Ford BMC and Bedford and all of them did over 250,000 miles before any major problems. Without a doubt the best engines of the day was the Leyland 350/375 and 400 series of engines by a country mile. The V8 510 and 540 Perkins were nothing to write home about with their constant head gasket problems,in 16 toners they weren’t bad but in 24 ton six wheelers and tractor units they were UTTER CRAP. In tractors and fork trucks Perkins were great but for haulage applications they weren’t great.
How lovely to see my late dad on this video , thank you so much , so nice to to see
Lovely little video of the days when We acknowledged that engineers were valuable people .
Most unfortunate that under Cat they have lost the majority of their previous customer base from Maintou to MF, to be replaced by FPT, Deutz and AGCO-Power/Sisu and JCB engines. Where did they go wrong? They cheapened out with not installing dry liners for a start. Then they went heavy on EGR for their common rail engines where everyone else bar DPS went for simpler engines with compact cooling packs which fitted existing machinery, that used less fuel by using SCR/Adblue.
Apart from Cat, I'm sure they must have lost half their volume sales to rivals over the last twelve years to 2021.
Sad . I have many up until 4000 series .
They were the best .
Now Kubota, Yanmar,CNH and others took over.
Good work Perkins team 🇵🇰
What was the P&L summary like of L. Gardner and Sons leading up to the merger or sale to Perkins in 1981?
Being a retired plant fitter I worked on and serviced a lot of these Engines in all types of Machines. To be honest the Engines were rubbish, underpowered, prone to overheating with constant blue, black, white smoke and always bollocking oil out!. I don’t miss them.
02:03 my engine perkins 6.305
my late father worked at perkins during the 70's. as a schoolboy i would see the hoards of workers leaving the gates after their shifts had ended. happy times and how i wish we as a country still had as strong a manufacturing base as we once did.
Just driven to the shops and back thanks to a 1966 Perkins. Still going strong.
LIKE JCB ANOTHER WORLD CLASS COMPANY AND PEOPLE SAY WE CANNOT BUILD WORLD LEADING PRODUCTS THIS COMPANY PROVES WE CAN
Aq no brasil sou mecanico trabalho com toda linha perk ate agora anova geraçao aq tenho um aberto 4 cilindro 1114 14 E montado na caterpila retro cescavadeira muito bom facio a montagem identico os antigos q equipava a caminhonet GM D20
You can tell this is staged. No one closes the doors after alighting a HST 😉
Sold to Massey Ferguson once the Western worlds largest agricultural machinery manufacturer then lateral to present day it's a division of Caterpillar.
Brilliant engines.....My perkins diesel engine was incredible...
Never let me down for over a decade , everyday it ran and ran...Quality..
Best engines in the world.
You never here of perkins like you do catapiler cummins iveco ect but perkins are just as big if not bigger
Perkins is now owned by caterpillar.. Perkins is one factory, caterpiller is a global company
Perkins is also a global company that still makes diesels for many well known companies including Caterpillar, which also happens to be it’s current owner. The global headquarters are still in Peterborough. www.perkins.com/en_GB.html
De los mejores motores del mundo.De los más fiables.
I love how the black guy that traveled to the Perkins plant with the white and Asian man - on the way back on the train - holds the door for the other two, to get aboard the train...almost 40 years ago now...not many 'ladies' working in that plant...and pretty much everybody is, well...'white'...Those 'sophisticated computers' are quite quaint now!! They remind me of the old 'IBM' 8088's with green monochrome monitors we used to use back in the day...and the TAPE DRIVE storage system! Wow...Just think: likely a modern 'thumbdrive' could hold the information in that lot! Thanks for whoever transferred this from VHS...excellent video!
I have a few Perkins engines .
Excellent 👍
So many memories looking at this, the dodge 100 got a 6 cylinder in the end and it was so large the steering box had to be replaced every 4/5 years and it would hop 3rd gear on every hill, if you hold the stick for more than five minutes it would split the 4speed gearbox we had 4 Dodge 100 and all gearboxes exploded😂 an so did the Perkins 4.108 split it's crank oh the good old days, love the hair dos haha
Thanks for the video👍
thats just one of the "high quality" english manufaturing :D
I used to be work in this factory at 2017, its looks like where time is stopped around when this film made.
perkins its good diesel engine the trucks mexican brand dina buy thousands of engines now in this days en mexico keep working old trucks dina whith perkins
yo tengo un perkin fase dos i otro fase 4. dson modelos ocghentas i son buenisimos,. un poco lentos pero aguantadores..
Sounds like the perfect company
Tenían que volver a montar los V8 de los años 70.
All this sounds great,the 6-354 was not a bad engine and the company I worked for run about 20 Seddon 16/4 flats but I don’t think any of them manage more than 150,000 miles before we had problems with them. Oil consumption was horrendous on the engines that were fitted with Chrome liners so we removed them and fitted cast iron ones. The previous vehicles we had were Ford BMC and Bedford and all of them did over 250,000 miles before any major problems. Without a doubt the best engines of the day was the Leyland 350/375 and 400 series of engines by a country mile. The V8 510 and 540 Perkins were nothing to write home about with their constant head gasket problems,in 16 toners they weren’t bad but in 24 ton six wheelers and tractor units they were UTTER CRAP. In tractors and fork trucks Perkins were great but for haulage applications they weren’t great.
NICE
Worked on them in jcb excavators, they were ok i guess but then hitachi came along with isuzu engines , far superior engines.
Isuzu and all Japanese Diesels are the best.
Mitsubishi and Yanmar ,Kubota in many brand machines.
Just don't use ether starting fluid or boom 💥
Bought out by caterpillar,was it moved to China?
Still made in Peterborough, but they have many other facilities around the world too
no still at Peterborough today .
CAT has many parts made in China..
I don't buy CAT anymore.
Komatsu Hitachi Yanmar etc Japan .