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!