Vlog 339: Sweet Music
The annual Evesham River Festival was held in 2024 on Saturday July 13th and within it this year was a gathering of the “Russell Newbery Register”. Russel Newbery – yes, that is the correct spelling – is a manufacturer of slow-revving, high-torque diesel engines which are ideal for narrowboat use.
I went along to find out why people love these engines so much – and to have a browse around the rest of the festival which included small steam launches, fibreglass cabin cruisers, pedalos, and stalls along the river bank.
Prior engine videos that might be of interest:
Rusty Newbolt
Dual Fuel
National Treasure
Thanks David for another great vlog.
With the low revving RN engines not feeding the alternator fast enough but having so much torque, could they fit a couple of gear cogs to up the revs on the final belt to the alternator to pimprove the charge rate.?
All the best,
Chris
Hi Chris, I would have thought so but I presume there must be some technical reason why not else they’d all be doing it!! I really should have asked more queries about that to clarify.
Oh David, this is among your very, very best ! To say I enjoyed it is an understatement of epic proportions. That Dutch Barge with the huge lathe was a surprise ! I wonder what the gentleman is turning out on it? Thanks so much for this one. Cheers from Arizona.
Thank you! Ha, I’m beginning to wonder if I had the wrong focus in the video; I went along to talk to the RN Register but the completely ‘ad hoc’ filming of the barge has attracted a lot of interest!!