Mostly OT video, some Ford clips, The Rise and Fall of Waukesha Engines
 

On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw1TECMOwJQ. Mostly a narration of the Waukesha Engines. Includes interesting history on the development and history of the octane standard and testing equipment.


The video is mostly irrelevant to the subject, with lots of "stock" footage... which does include some early V8 Ford content. Worth watching if its a slow day.

Re: Mostly OT video, some Ford clips, The Rise and Fall of Waukesha Engines
 

That is a good informative video, Karl

I can remember my dad who worked for the IC railroad for years, speaking of the Waukesha branded overhead crane he used in the railroad foundry. This would have been late in the steam engine era of the '50's at Paducah, Ky. At least he called it a Waukesha, may have been only the engine powering the crane unit, which I think was a gantry crane.

Al Hook

Re: Mostly OT video, some Ford clips, The Rise and Fall of Waukesha Engines
 

Be mindful that this video, like so much of the AI dreck, has numerous factual errors and incorrect images. I believe the correct term is hallucinations.

Re: Mostly OT video, some Ford clips, The Rise and Fall of Waukesha Engines
 

Thanks

Re: Mostly OT video, some Ford clips, The Rise and Fall of Waukesha Engines
 

I watch a lot of youtube stuff, and this is another of the AI crap they are jamming at us.
Some guy splices together a bunch of old unrelated footage, probably stolen, give it a fancy title and hope for the view counter to pay off.

Supposed to be about Waukesha engines, yet I see Ford v8's, ford A's, and even model T's. Chassis being built, assembly lines from who knows where...but not Waukesha.

I'm quite familiar with Waukesha's, certainly a fine product and interesting history, but this ain't it

Re: Mostly OT video, some Ford clips, The Rise and Fall of Waukesha Engines
 

My Pop used a big TH-844 RoiLine engine, made by Le Roi and later produced by Waukesha, to run his irrigation pump. It was a surplus engine that came out of a big Mack M125 10-ton 6X6 military tractor. Back in the cold war, troopies used to run these big trucks along the Czech border in the middle of the night to let the Soviets know that they were still there. I guess they were loud as hell. They had to wear hearing protection to run them.

Re: Mostly OT video, some Ford clips, The Rise and Fall of Waukesha Engines
 

An amazing story of the "little company that could". Too bad it isn't genuine factory footage.
However, thanks for posting it.