Coltrane's Planes & Automobiles: The Diesel Engine
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- At the age of 19 Rudolf Diesel invented the engine that was to be named after him. The diesel engine has become the workhorse of our age; an engine that powers 80% of all our machines
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Rip sir watching this episode at age 14 got me into engines, which then led to a masters degree in engineering. Thank you.
Smart man. Enjoying what you do for a living is brilliant. Wish I would have done that. Cheers my friend.
I went to uni at 57. One of my lecturers and a business manager both said I had inspired them to go part time!
Anyway I loved hearing your tale of being inspired, and very well done on the masters!
Well done, lad.
You returned to college at 57? Did you continue on for a degree? You give me hope.
@@giggiddy yep! I got a 2/2. It was exhausting, but enjoyable, and it's good to work the brain.
Rest easy Robbie, a great guy indeed. I always think of this program when his name is mentioned, he seems to love the hands on approach, love his sampling idea and song
Great teacher wasn't he?
He was obnoxious
@@tba8241 troll
@@tba8241 Really? I never got that impression from the guy..
RIP Robbie Coltrane... i remember watching this series from tv when i was a kid.
Learned how the diesel engine works from this very show back when it was on TV… RIP
This is the first show i thought of when I heard Robbie had passed, RIP Mr Coltrane
Me too, along with him striding along a breakwater in a storm!
Rest in peace Robbie ❤
RIP Sir. Your passing is a great loss.
RIP Robbie Coltrane. I have this series recorded somewhere at home but it was the diesel engine episode I truly loved. I am a diesel mechanic and am part of a team who rebuilds large diesel engines.
RIP Big Robbie
I miss my old diesel car, but not as much as I'll miss you, big man. Fly high Rab.
R.I.P. we will miss you
Robbie passion for things mechanical shines through in this wonderful series.
Yet another wonderful legacy left by Mr Coltrain.
RIP Robbie.
I had a chat with Robbie Coltrane in 2000 at Dover Hoverport, he was about to cross the Channel on the amazing SRN4 hovercraft. He talked to me (I was in dirty overalls carrying a box of gaskets) I was so impressed not with his size but because he was so easy to talk to and bearing in mind a very well off well known guy genuinely interested in what I was doing.
"I am a great admirer of the Hovercraft" he said to which I replied "maybe your program should have been trains planes automobiles and hovercraft" to which he laughed.
Hope him and his family had a good trip in the scruffy black V6 American saloon car.
Great guy.
Just when you think you've seen it all. Cheers that man, rest in peace.
Thank you for sharing this series. I really hate TV here in the US, stuff like this is rarely seen.
Same in Australia. We are fed on shit here.
They don't make them like this in the UK anymore.
Chris Barrie's done some good engine stuff.
@@richardpurves probably because someone would be offended now. Tree huggers spring to mind..😖
Did my apprenticeship with L Gardner and sons in the 80s, great days.
And me in the 60s! From foundry to engine assembly, drawing office to the garage and every step along the way.
I watched this whole series when it came out. As a diesel mechanic its amazing how often I quote this and had even forgotten where I heard the quotes.
9:15......"Wafferr Thin" 👍👍🤣🤣🤣
God Bless Robbie, gonna miss you !!
what was this again i can picture Monty Python 😄
@@tommurphy9352 The Meaning of Life, Mr Creosote scene.
Rudolph Diesel vanished on route from Holland to England, on board SS Louvaine, my great grandfather was leading seaman Michael Golden onboard that vessel, who perished at Gallipoli on board the same ship roughly 6 years later by torpedo.
I'm aware that the history was quite vague in this programme.....
R.I.P. Robbie Coltrane.
☮☮
Clearly a man that "gets" engines.
I love the metronomic beat of a single-speed diesel. :D
I love his comment: “Ah, so that’s what beer tastes like: no wonder it’s so popular!”
Miss you Robbie. Great series!
This was a brilliant program! 😎❤️👍
So long old chap!
May your enemies camels forever walk in circles.
Been keeping an eye out for this episode for years... His style was such a pleasure to watch. Going to go and visit the lighthouse featured :)
He was like that in real life too' Met him in the eighties when working as a mechanic. The 'Big Man'would chat endlessly about engineering heritage,planes,boats,and trains perfectly describes him.He was also into cars and owned a Citroen Light 15 when we met him in Hyndland in Glasgow. Was delighted though,when I discovered he had an all round interest like myself though. Loved this programme back in the day,yet to meet any Glaswegian that was a kid in Glasgow late fiftties early sixties that did'nt. Sad seeing it all go later though.
I do love to see Robbie Coltrane having fun.
oh heck our class science teacher actually recommended we watch this
Good teacher
I watched all of his documentaries a a lot of his tv series and films…a great actor and man…sadly missed.RIP.Roly🇬🇧.
I enjoy these videos but he forgot to mention that Diesel also ran his engine on vegetable oil which might have something to do with his death, maybe Standard oil didn't like the fact that Rudolph Diesel was telling everyone his engine would run on Bio Fuel.(hint), John D. Rockefeller also gave the Temperance movement $4 million to make sure the prohibition was passed forcing people to buy gas for their cars because they couldn't buy alcohol to run them on, Henry Ford was promoting alcohol for fuel to help the farmers and even sold a "Flex Fuel" model T
I strongly doubt it was suicide that killed Diesel for that exact reason.
...FANTASTIC!!! ...I remember him in the Comic Strip!
What an incredible opening shot, thanks for posting
Hi folks , RIP Robbie never a day goes buy fond memory's
Love the heels...and the stems
I assume that lighthouse at The Lizard is now un-manned & the foghorn now replaced by a anonymous electronic horn.
Gardner has gone the same way as Ruston, haven't they? Best diesel engine in the world the Gardner 6LW.
The foghorns are still there. Not sure of their operational status, the local lamps have gone over to pathetic LEDs with no presence in the lights loom to set them apart from a bright torch.
Excellent series, top man!
I liked his work as Hagrid!
Loved his work on these shows.
I had NO notice that he had passed.
steve
Fly Straight Robbie x
Straight and True...👍👍
Father couldnt of been that bad of a man . He raised a man who forever changed history.
very nice
I danced at the end (sort of!), but then I'm white :-)
Excellent series.
17:54 "If you stay still during this portion, you're definitely white."
+TheMechEngineer LOLLL...
"Robbie will be back next monday!"
😭
Oh I know, that cut deep 😭
lovely
of course, diesel powered transportation in the US would have been a flash in the pan, were it not for the efforts of an American named Clessie Lyle Cummins; who drove across the country and raced in the Indy 500 in a car powered by an engine of his own design; the engine manufacturer that now bears his name powers thousands upon thousands of heavy duty trucks, earth moving equipment, and of course, saved Chrysler's truck division from an uncertain future.
I see the year 2011 and I wonder why... ah Robbie Coltrane, interesting guy, RIP.
THEY ARE DEPENDABLE, REQUIRING BASIC REGULAR ATTENTION.. WHY THEN ARE THEY N O T USED IN AVIATION!?!?
WHAT A GREAT VIDEO.. THANK YOU FOR SHARING
it is. check out Diamond DA42. but thrust to weight ratio in aircraft is important and diesels are quite heavy and unable to produce thrust specially compared to jet engines. there is also info out there that diesel consistency vary on altitude and temperature. but it has a lot of torque. which is good for heavy machinery like trucks and ships. torque is heavy lifting. it does not have to deliver that force quickly like jet engines does.
I think that the diesel will be more and more popular. Just like in the car you get good cruise performance with range and cost. The Centurion is a very, very good engine. Turbo power, kerosene in the wings and fantastic performance. I'm surprised that diesel and kero isn't as popular as it could be. 100LL is fine but diesel has lower costs and greater performance. Thielert engines have incredible reliability.
In WW2 Germany had diesel powered bombers equipped with the Junkers Jumo engine.
Jet engines can be set to run on diesel fuel too.
Thank you enjoyed watching and to Rudolf Diesel
"... imagine if he'd been called Studelfinfenheimer..." I just peed myself 😁
He will be missed
8:10, The thrusting piston starts flagging and she says "once more"!
OK, that engine at the end of the show, the hand-cranked one in Zimbabwe. Is that a Lister? Sounds like it, and the starting procedure is correct.
steve
Most likely
Yes - I remember this show when it first aired and the picture was better and Lister could be seen on the top!! @@linctexpilot8337
I have since found a Chinese Diesel
engine, that has a compression
release, and a hand crank. It is a
MASSIVE 3 HP engine, and I need
something to install it on.
Yes, it starts the same way, and will
"roll coal" if you increase the speed
quickly. I'm thinking a mini bike.
steve
I have heard that Diesel originally designed the engine to use hemp oil (when it was completely legal, also abundant and easy to produce), and had to adapt to an 'inferior' petrol/oil mix (which became 'diesel' fuel) when hemp became illegal?
He fell of a ship what tragic irony
Funny how fucked up time is, I'd thought this would be roughly '87 and it's ten years later. Must have been the Hi Life.
They probably had Scottish engineers working for Gardner's as well
Mute this video between 17:21 and 18:12 and play the song titled "Passionfruit" By Drake (Only the first 38 seconds or so) Would make a great music video. Hilarious none the less.
I am just Krazy enough to work on diesel engines for a job, tuning, service and rebuild. So far the smallest has been a single cylinder of a few hundred cc and the largest a V16 1000hp, Just like woman they come in all sizes. Bitches too lol 😂
it was designed for hempfuel... but hey, looks like toiletpaper and plasticbags would kill mankind anyway?
Toilet paper will only kill you if drunken frat boys wrap you up in it.
Over forty years ago Ted Pritchard of Melbourne Aust. built the lowest emission engine in the world, a steamer [external combustion engine]. It does not matter what you do I.C. engines can ever compete pollution wise. The major vehicle mfrs. would not take it up. I could be excused for believing politicians do not enforce emission levels because they are too scared to do so. That little engine is most likely still the best in the world. I had thirty years in ships as an engineer and I can assure Mr Coltrane he doesn't know what he is talking about
better anything made by by Wexford Pierces in Ireland, podonach ad fear uiceal, gabh mo leitchseail P
I am Irish and I don’t understand what you are saying. Pierce Engineering is closed probably 40 years now, a victim of not planning for the future, they were still making horse equipment well into the 1960s.
I'd say I miss him, but I really couldn't give a crap about Harry Potter. At least is time decaying on this godforsaken rock is over, there's that.
Microsoft? Innovation?! I think not....
Diesel, the Devil's piss. I bought a Jag a few years ago. Diesel engine. What a pile of sh#t that car was. Never buying diesel ever again. I advise you all to avoid Diesel engines like you would a crackhead beggar pretending to be homeless.
You're talking rubbish. Had Diesel cars for years....never any trouble. Will never have anything else, in spite of what the tree huggers say..
@@G.5.B.H.M Lies. They are loud, slow, very narrow power band, you have to wait for the glow plugs to warm up before you can start them. A general pain in the arse. I imagine you are a deaf old man.
@@twt3716 well the diesels I drive are powerful, plenty of torque and efficient.
I've had 4 dsl cars,all of them very reliable ,very economical and very fast. I've never been in that much of hurry to think about glow plugs taking too long and neither been rude and calling people names like a petulant child because somebody doesn't agree with me.
Was it an X type?, Ford engine, say no more, Ford were never famed for their Diesel engines.
A man of wisdom a man of solitude a humble man a clever individual a man we should all admire a man ahead of his time a man we should follow a man whos intput will and should always be recognised We will all miss you Mr Coltrane we really will Oh and Mr diesel will not be misses as much because all those that lead us have managed to charge us much more for diesel which is a crude oil and cost far less to produce than petrolm but they still manage to charge us more Its a SAD SAD WORLD IS IT NOT ??????????????