Steam Bus Tackles Steep Hill

[@crossleydd42]

I recall seeing steam lorries around until about the mid-1950's. Most of them survived the war, and were even activated during it, because there was no shortage of water/coal, unlike petrol/diesel vehicles, which suffered from tightly-regulated supplies. Most of the steam vehicles I saw were tankers tar-spraying the roads prior to re-surfacing. They were well suited to going very slowly!

[@donfink7063]

The sound of a steam engine working hard, is so much more satisfying than a diesel or petrol engine.

[@xstraightedgechrisx]

Think you hear a train, but you see a bus.

[@kenhowarth2]

You are right - it was really odd to hear it. There was a reminder too that it was a technology of its time. After I had finished taking the final shot in the clip, the bus suddenly came to a halt. They literally ran out of steam and had to wait five minutes for the boiler pressure to rise before continuing. KH

[@rgadave]

My father worked at the Sentinel factory in Shrewsbury in the 1940's.

[@Liberty.Francis]

I'm giving her all she's got captain

[@rollsroycemerlin4321]

I'm seeing a bus and hearing a locomotive. Surreal. So 'scuse my ignorance, but is there someone stoking a fire somewhere as well as a driver?

[@stanleycarter6275]

The boiler is vertical you don't Stoke it you turn the blower on

[@KrisDouglas]

It has a vertical boiler, the coal goes in the top of it and the boiler is in the cab with the driver :)

[@knurlgnar24]

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.

[@inglian02]

Extraordinary. It sounds like a Black 5.

[@Stanlazy]

A time when the fuel came from Britain and not the Middle East and when no-one was in a tearing hurry to get no-where special!

[@doktorbimmer]

*Thank god for Rudolf Diesel!*

[@samanli-tw3id]

ALL ABOARD THE CHOO CHOO BUS!!

[@MrPenobe]

i think i can, i think i can, i think i can. I know i can!

[@timsimmk]

Great sound!

[@rclass707]

Nothing like hearing them work up a hill.

[@jzxmissile]

Beats walking .

[@AsloAso]

in the Steam era there were alot of machines & vehicles other then trains which ran on steam.

[@allanrussell353]

Heaven forbid if you had to pick up a passenger on the hill, it would take a day to get going again...

[@MattMunro74]

Everybody would have to wait at the bottom

[@DrFerazza]

So strange to hear that puffing and chugging coming from something besides a steam train engine.

[@bentregear3713]

This engine is part of the Saunders collection in stotfold

[@mikego18753]

Thanks mate.

[@ExiledPiasa]

here comes the 8:15... steam vehicles are some of the coolest.

[@kenhowarth2]

Not quite - it ran out of steam at the top of the hill. KH

[@komerwest9520]

I think I can I think I can. I knew I could I knew I could.

[@MikesMovies]

Now I could easily like this kind of bus!

[@holden1180]

All i can say is awesome. When starting to slow down put more coal on the fire. On the hill you can hear the real power of steam. Phil

[@sentineldg8]

There is a fireman who looks after the water in the boiler aswell. as the fire

[@b43xoit]

Single-acting cylinders?

[@Sentinel7109]

No, double acting. It's a one-stroke engine!

[@MattMunro74]

Bloody hell Dunedin New Zealand would kill it

[@archechme]

May as well walk.

[@caseyjonesfan]

i bet the driver was like crap again lol

[@MrTruth111]

Poor old thing:) Going steady.

[@CJA150179]

Two cylinder, Double acting.

[@Flynno19]

oh my gosh how strange

[@zebrashark23]

That just ain't right