Lovely, no music, no yak, just fine old engines.

In the early sixties I worked in a steel works on Cardiff docks, nearby was a scrap yard with a load of corporation double Deckers, I had a walk around one day and there was a row of Gardener engines from the buses to one side. The guy working there told me that they would be shipped out to Hong Kong where the Chinese would put them in their Harbour boats. 10 years + in a city bus and they were still good we did manufacture good gear once upon a time.

I remember those engines in small trawlers I worked on as a 16 year old, They were always started a 1/2 hour before sailing time to let them warm up, it was the first one abourds jobs. Check oil level, a few pumps to get the oil circulating then on with the starter, good old days.

For me Gardner provides a beautiful sound. In France, two lorrys builders used it Latil and Bernard. It was the 6 cyl. It s very nice to listen it.

My father drove many Foden trucks in Western Australia with Gardener motors. Slow but would go forever

Regardless whether its a 1,2,3,4,5,6,8 cyl Gardner they are by far the best diesel ever made. Nothing comes close.

When I worked for loctite Gardner were a client. My memory of them is they were implacably wedded to quality first, beautiful engineering, unfortunately that became less important and they seemed resistant to change, by which I mean cheapening the product. Notably at that point they seemed to fight shy of turbo technology .These were hand built machines, much in the idiom of AMG mercs. They always start first time every time and from the get go will cover a million miles before a minor rebuild.

My dad drove a Foden Fuel Tanker in Sydney Australia in the mid 1950's, it was fitted with an 8 cyl Gardner. Was the biggest of it's kind in the Southern Hemisphere at the time.

In the UK, Gardner engines were and often still are generally considered the best of best. Most travelling fairgrounds used them as generators and for the towing trucks, as they were so totally reliable and long lasting.

Good old reliable motors. I remember seeing a pair of inline 6's in a Tug back in the early 90's.

Me and a mate of mine got hold of a Foden truck that had a 6 cyclinder Gardiner engine. It had been sitting for about 29 years, destroyed transmission, and we freed up the slide on the injector pump, replaced the fuel,checked the water and oil quantities and it fired up after three turns.

I live in Hurghada, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea and these engines were common here. There are a few boats I know that have had them for over thirty years and are known for reliability. In fact those who have them now were bought used in the 80's for commercial fishing boats and then handed down to tourist boats in the early 90s. Absolutly legendary quality!

RNLI had Gardner engines in the old boats, wonderful machines.

These machines must have superb timing to run so smoothly. Such even sound.

These old engines remind me of old British funfair power plant ERF trucks with the massive generator

Gardner engined MCW Metrobus's were the sound of my childhood

Each of these old engines has an interesting "music", thanks for sharing.

Wow this brought back some memories! Years ago I had an old tugboat with a 6 LXE in it. Never missed a beat. Thanks for the video.

I live in Manchester also been on a tour round the Patricroft factory, then they were allowed to generate some of their own electricity they had some really old Gardner engines in the power room. We had some Gardeners in our fleet you just couldn't kill them. But as time moved on Swedish trucks started to take hold and sadly Gardner just couldn't evolve. The best engineers then, were on the UK fair grounds they could make guvnors out of springs and levers, very clever guys.

The Mighty Gardner's . Never powerhouses , But Reliable ? HELL YES . Legendary Powerplants .

as a kid in the 1960s all the travelling fairs ran the shows (Waltzer, twist, dodgems) with Gardner diesel engines, reliable and quiet,

Amazing they start so quickly and smooth

Hit n miss engines are pure marvel. Their distinctive sound is simply a mechanical wonder of timing and firing...love those machines.

We use have gardeners in our locomotives very quiet smooth and economical on fuel

We used Gardner 6cyl engines for Basic VM training at Norton Manor Camp (REME) in the early '50s .Everyone preferred the Gardner to the AEC .

Best diesel engine ever!, they will start after years of standing, it's very hard to kill a Gardner!

Thank you very much.

I took on a job on an old ship as engineer, the ship had two 4lw I think they were as generators, but they hadn't been used for nearly 10 years, I changed the oil and they fired up first time, I could even hand start them ( not too often 😊)

What a beautiful job some of these gentleman have done on restoration. WOW!

It takes a lot to beat a Gardner diesel,they sound beautiful…music to one’s ears.

In the 1960's and 70's the 'United Automobile' bus company from Newcastle upon Tyne operated their 'Tyne Tees Thames' service to London - a return journey of approximately 650 miles....day in-day out - utilising Gardner engined Bristol RELH's. They soon clocked a million miles - more or less just 'run in' by then - before many more years of 'second line' operation......After which the Gardner would often be removed at North's dismantlers ready to be marinised for boat operation in Hong Kong and elsewhere. What an engine!

We had some Gardner engined lorries in the late 60's, don't press any pedals, just press the starter button or turn the key. DO NOT press the accelerator or they won't start! Run forever.

Some of the most thermally efficient diesels ever made

These beautiful engines have more music in them than most rap songs.

The first one reminds me of when I was child hanging around the bus depot where my dad worked, sounds the exact same as when the buses were fired up and idling away.

Can't beat a Gardner for simplicity low fuel consumption and great torque down to the the last rpm

They sounded really good and responded pretty quickly to the throttle, for that size diesel engine.

In Australia there is a small passenger train operating in the gulf region out of Normanton, QLD which has a 6cyl Gardner diesel in it. It operates in the "dry" season. A beautiful little old train. There were a lot of 8LXB 8-cyl ones operating in Melbourne in Atkinson trucks. They were almost indestructable but slow!!

Marine engines were supplied with aluminium crank cases from the factory. I worked on commercial passenger boats with twin 6LX engines and owned a commercial fishing/ passenger boat with a single 5LW. They all were supplied brand new with aluminium crank cases.

Fantastic quality diesel engines and marvelous sounds. Great video.

Really impressive! Quality design and engineering!

6L3 my favorite marine engine of all time

Gardner one of the best sounding Diesel engines

Pete Culler, naval architect, designed a beautiful boat of something like 55-58 feet with a t-head pilot house yet! and planned for an eight cylinder Gardner engine.

I loved this video great job guys

No better sound than that of a Gardner engine 👍

Inline-8 is beautiful!

I drove shunt engines for over ten years the gardner engines were bullet proof and so reliable great power source chaz

Good job

Reliably personified

The company I worked for ren a fleet of them. If three or four of us would start up together on a cold morning the yard would disappear under a bank of smoke. Low revs but plenty of pull.

I’m starting to jig along, turn it up

Do you like these GARDNER engines ?

We used a Gardner 6LB in our 40 foot fishing trawler. The engine was actually a marinised bin lorry (Atkinson) engine. We loved that old engine - not because of power but because of the history, easy to fix, cheap and plentiful spares and because it was reliable. It never ever failed us in both starting or actually breaking. Our old engine is gone now. Gone because the government pressured us into decommissioning the trawler to please the EU. Unfortunately, only certain parts could be recycled for re-sale such as cabin glass and the deck winch. The engine had to be smashed to pieces in front of the government inspector who witnessed the scrapping.

Vraiment des œuvres d'art très beau

Proper engines

Splendid motors 👍👍👍👍👍👍👋👋👋💪💪

Sounds like the old double deckers which ran in the 80s in my town Leyland fleetline with gardner in em.😊

What brilliant engines,it is a pity that they did not keep up with the power increases required that other builders managing.

I put a Gardner 180 in my Scammell Explorer she was a BEAUTY to drive!

My late dad knew an owner of a transport business fleet in Cape Town South Africa in the 60s. He re engined his entire Dennis fleet of lorries from Perkins to Gardener. Huge savings in fuel and maintenance! Pity Perkins Bought Gardener and killed them. These Dennis trucke did continously the 1000 mile Johannesburg run. Beautiful engines.

Beautiful.👌

It's great to see these wonderful old engines, but those men are at serious risk of developing cancer from the particulates in the exhaust fumes.

Work of art

This injection pumps must have been masterpieces!

Literally built like a tank!!!

Gardner are known world wide for the reliability, power, low noise & efficiency. Based loosely on Rolls Royce. Their used in everything from buses, lorries to boats and ships. I think their amazing engines! Up their with Kat & Perkins but not quite like the mighty Meteor!

I like all engines, and there’s lots of them… so you can lots more videos please.

I was interviewed for a job in the Barton works when I left school! Fortunately I decided the Electric Board was a better offer (where I still am over 40 years later) Incidentally I was on a job for Norweb at the same Gardner's works putting high bat lighting in the Crankshaft Bay and took the opportunity to have a wander round ... as you do. The 600v Mercury arc rectifier was a thing to behold and was even scarier than the women working in the foundry! Gardner's fell victim to their own success and were unwilling to develop new engines that could compete with lighter more powerful units made by the likes of Volvo and relied on their admittedly long lasting engines and the rest was history! Sadly the place is now several different firms .... and the local Police Car Pound, the playing fields (very impressive) are now a housing estate!

A straight 8 diesel, I love the old motors,

No music etc . That's a turn off. These machines look like works of art.

My old Foden tipper had a 6LX 180C in👍!!

HEY!!!!! You should have warned us about the exhaust smoke.... now my room is full of smoke from this video...........

Why did several of the engines not have the characteristic diesel knock sound? Was it caused by lower compression?

bee - uu -tiful !!

Great video 👍😉🇺🇦

A proper diesel engine. But the atlas Imperial in my old boat is better 😉. Great stuff and thank you for posting

Every one of these engines is hot. There is no way a "cold" engine would start like that.

No big turbos on these beasties. It would be fun to combine Gardner sound and turbo sound

The old boy (67) still running a 6l in his cray fishing boat 12 letters an hour at 10 notes

What's the displacement torque and horsepower of that 8XLB? That was a beautiful engine. I think it would look great in a long hood Pete or extended cowl KW 900!

we used to own the building they were built in then xD

Let's see your Tesla do that! Smoke, Fire, music to my ears.

God job

NO COMPUTERS !!!!!!

There was something magical & soothing about the LXB's when ticking over.

All you need now is an old commercial, aec, fodon, to throw them in

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miniatura enganosa.... deslike e denuncia