Britains Greatest Machines

[Jem0911]

Classic episode tonight
Routemaster
Deltic
Vulcan
Land Rover

[Oli L]

Awww man!! that drone off the Vulcan!!!

[grumbledoak]

Fantastic show. Just did the Comet, did I really hear 900mph?

Edited by grumbledoak on Thursday 3rd June 20:47

[Lost soul]

[Martin_Hx]

Bugger what channel was this on ? Is it repeated at all ?

[Jem0911]

Twas after Fifth Gear. Have a butchers on Fiver?

[Eric Mc]

grumbledoak said:

Fantastic show. Just did the Comet, did I really hear 900mph?

Edited by grumbledoak on Thursday 3rd June 20:47

If you did, it was wrong.

[grumbledoak]

Eric Mc said:

If you did, it was wrong.

It did sound impressive! 500 likely? Curse these old ears.

[Martin_Hx]

Jem0911 said:

Twas after Fifth Gear. Have a butchers on Fiver?

Ah recorded 5th gear, ill do a search for it, fingers crossed !

[Martin_Hx]

Repeated sat morning for those that missed it.


Britain's Greatest Machines with Chris Barrie

Saturday 05 June
10:45am - 11:45am
Five
1950s

Chris Barrie explores the pivotal moments in Britain's recent engineering past, revealing the key developments that forged a nation. The 1950s saw Britain striving to become a leader in modern design, with the invention of such iconic machines as the Routemaster bus and the Land Rover.

[Eric Mc]

The original Comet 1 was quite a small aeroplane (capacity 50 passengers) and had, by later standards, quite weedy engines - four De Havilland Ghosts pushing out around 5,000 lbs of thrust each. The top speed of the Comet 1 was in the region of 500 mph.

Modern airliners are not a great deal faster but they are, of course, often much bigger and have far more fuel efficient engines. A modern big fan engine such as the Rolls Royce Trent can produce will over 70,000 lbs of thrust.

Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 4th June 08:51

[Beyond Rational]

Martin_Hx said:

Jem0911 said:

Twas after Fifth Gear. Have a butchers on Fiver?

Ah recorded 5th gear, ill do a search for it, fingers crossed !

If not, it is on youtube.

[Mark34bn]

It's on demand.five.tv
Looks like an interesting pic -
http://demand.five.tv/Series.aspx?seasonBaseName=B...

[Jem0911]

Mark34bn said:

It's on demand.five.tv
Looks like an interesting pic -

Eighties?
or a mix?

[Galsia]

I enjoyed that!

[fatvik]

I watched it today... and loved it!

[Jem0911]

1960's tonight.

[GTIR]

Is Barrie a PH'er?

He loves engines.

[Jem0911]

He should be. End of leg.

[crofty1984]

Jem0911 said:

He should be. End of leg.

You trying to say he's hip?