Chris Barrie's Massive Engines is a Technology programme.

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Chris Barrie's Massive Engines: Trucks

Series 1, episode 8

Directed by (unconfirmed)
Hugh Whitworth

Comedy actor and car fanatic Chris Barrie explores the development of truck engines. He examines 19th-century steam-powered machines and the advent of diesel in the 1930s, before turning his attention to Europe's largest modern vehicle, the Caterpillar 789, which has a 69-litre engine and 16 cylinders

Cast (unconfirmed)

Chris Barrie
Mark Strickson
Emma Read
Hugh Whitworth