Cromwell tank engine start up

[fastmongrel]

WW2 Cromwell tank engine starting up for the first time in a long time. V12 Meteor the land version of the Merlin.

 

[Snautzer01]

Mighty noise.

 

[Crimea_River]

Cool.

 

[SaparotRob]

Mighty noise.

That ain't noise. It's music.

 

[Snautzer01]

That ain't noise. It's music.

And a soul warmer.

 

[fastmongrel]

More Meteor music

 

[fastmongrel]

Fire and smoke

 

[Snautzer01]

Cool!

 

[fastmongrel]

I did my initial training on Centurions and did winter training in Canada on Centurions. The Meteor always started it just took a lot of cranking and sometimes a whole can of eezi start. When it was turning it would run forever sometimes on all twelve cylinders

It was virtually indestructible as long as it had regular plug and oil changes.

 

[Snautzer01]

sometimes on all twelve cylinders

 

[WARSPITER]

That's why they had twelve, in case some didn't work then you still had something around a V8

 

[Gnomey]

Cool!