Lord Robert’s looking Impeccable, as usual!! It looked good having the two era’s of heavy haulage together. The truck was produced across the pond I take it! But very nice too👌

@LordRoberts-FowlerB5RoadLoco

15 күн бұрын

Yes, Freightliner Trucks is an American truck manufacturer. Founded in 1929 as the truck-manufacturing division of Consolidated Freightways (from which it derives its name), the company was established in 1942 as Freightliner Corporation. The HQ is in Portland, Oregon (the city of its founding). Thank you for the comments on LORD ROBERTS!

Great Video😊

@LordRoberts-FowlerB5RoadLoco

15 күн бұрын

Good to receive your feedback, and that you liked it. Unfortunately, there is no soundtrack to accompany it (the noise from the Freightliner working is impressive).

@anthonygiglio9860

14 күн бұрын

Great Cabover Freightliner Also

I find both the engine and the videos very charming! Road locomotives (such as L.R.), showman's locomotives and traction engines had their heyday in Britain between 1880 and 1920, but in the rest of Europe one hears nothing - I know of 14 British manufacturers but no French, no Italian and in Germany only Lanz (Mannheim). Maybe they all used British machines? I know that Fowlers had their machines built under licence in Germany.

@Dave.w-ev9qn1962

19 күн бұрын

You have raised an interest point there! Like you say we had many firms building engines on a large scale, yet on the continent most production never seemed to get off the ground. Think we can rightly say” we led the world in the production of steam engines” You only have to recall the names, Trevithick Watt woolf Stevenson Newcomen. Need I say more!! I look forward to stephen’s videos too. Always a enjoyable watch👍

@LordRoberts-FowlerB5RoadLoco

15 күн бұрын

There were several road steam engine makers in Germany: Borsig (Berlin), Esterer (Altötting), Hanomag (Hannover), Henschel (Kassel), Kemna (Breslau - then Germany), Lanz (Mannheim), Otto Meyer (Wellentrup), Wolf (Magdeburg), Ruthemeyer (Soest), Scharer & Gross (Nürnberg), Zettelmeyer (Konz). The list of English manufacturers was much longer, numbering at least 30. John Fowler had an office (small one) in the centre of Berlin on Schiffbauerdamm (around the beginning of the 20th Century. I assume it was a sales office (for exports further East), as the re-assembly of delivered Fowler parts, would have been in the Magdeburg factory.

@1258-Eckhart

14 күн бұрын

@@LordRoberts-FowlerB5RoadLoco Looking at your list (for which trouble, thanks), I'd claim that 90% of their output was for specialised engines such as portables and rollers. Most ploughing engines were licence-built Fowlers (e.g. Henschel) or Heucke. I looked into the history of the Esterer firm when working with a member of the family and discovered only portables - they seem never to have built traction engines, a logical further step in their agricultural business. I've been haunting steam fairs since boyhood and have never seen a German road locomotive (Zugmaschine) - though they clearly existed - but in numbers dwarfed by the English production and I wonder why. I would claim rather boldly that showman's engines were unknown here (i.e. they were all English).

@Dave.w-ev9qn1962

12 күн бұрын

@@LordRoberts-FowlerB5RoadLoco from what I have read: John Fowler had a father and son . Richard toepffer and son as agents or partners running things for him abroad. It was they who introduced Fowler machinery to the war ministry in Berlin, though Fowler being a Quaker favoured the agricultural use of his engine. By 1873 ninety sets of engines were at work in the German empire and by 1878 this had increased nearly ten fold. With workshops in Prague Vienna Budapest and Kiev and sales offices in Vienna and Berlin. This reminds me of the puzzle why a pair of Fowler ploughing engines are on the seabed off Whitby, on a ship not capable of carrying enough coal to get anywhere near any of these destinations.