Videos with audio can be found of most classes of diesel locomotive engine used in the UK.
Even
Class 15
15 ? MAN ????
D8200s were Paxman 16YH engines - unless someone is going to tell me they have fitted some sort of MAN engine ???????
It is a bit unclear to the uninformed to have a thread entitled MAN opening with a non MAN loco without explanation (well I think that anyway).
But are there any recordings of any of the MAN-engined classes 21,22,41,43(Warship), 250 or 251? 154 locos (38 with twin engines) and five units (each with two power cars). Not a single one preserved
Those are all MAN 18/21 engines.
None that I can find that are of any use. There is one video on You Tube that is captioned as an NBL 800 at New Street - but while the video is really that the audio is not, in fact, the audio is a Hymek. It has fooled many people. Did not fool me, but then again I know the person who made it, who does things like that.
One of the preserved German DB "egghead" d-h multiple units - the one I think they call Stuttgarter Rossler - used to have a MAN 17.5/21 at one end and a Maybach MD650 at the other but ISTR that got changed around and unsure what it has now.
This is the train in question but no good for diesel audio
In
once you get past the first +1 minute of silly music, at 1 m 20 s onwards there are two runbys both spoiled by horns but I /think/ that is Maybach in the front car and MAN rear car. Whatever they are ,they are not the same as each other.
As far as I know, those are the only operational 17.5/21 or 18/21s anywhere. IIMU none of the preserved locos have them. One of the V80s might, unsure. While it is popular GB gen that DB V200s and V100s (and V80) had 18/21s just like BR D800s did, in fact they were in very low numbers - little more than prototype and pre-series runs and barely count to 20 locos in total. DB abandoned the 18/21 around about the same time NBL started building them for BR. It was not a good engine, as DB discovered early. NBL did otherwise. It was basically an 800 hp V12 engine with 17.5 cm bore (17.5/21) that in an effort to meet DB wanting 1000 hp was englarged to 18 cm bore (18/21) but no other mods. This really over stressed it, and place it at the limitof its development. NBL / BR pushed it to 1100 hp (in round figures) by twiddling with turbos but it was really beyond its capability. By 1960 DB wanted 1350 hp from a V12 - no way the 18/21 could do that so it was dropped, while the Maybach - and Mercedes Daimiler - engines could.
Many years ago, like 30 years, I saw the thing go hammering through Ulm empty and certainly one end was both growling and 'dubbing' unlike any Maybach I've ever heard and assume that was the 18/21 MAN sound.
I saw many D833s, a few D6300s, and the BPs in service, yet I can not remember what they sounded like - well it was 55 years ago now. You could tell a D833 from afar on approach more by the blue fug surrounding it rather than the noise.
No doubt someone will be along in a minute and post about MAN engined shunters - but those engines have SFA to do with the main line 18/21s.
PS
D600s were not NOT
NOT and never were class 41 as been stated in numerous discussions over and over again
