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The world's most enormous machines are stripped down and torn apart to discover their hidden secrets and to reveal out how each one has changed our world in its own unique way.

Documentary · 2012 · 1 hr 10 min

Starring Tom Wrigglesworth , Rob Bell

EPISODE 1

Jumbo Jet Strip-Down

Revealing the inner workings of the world's most enormous machines. Engineer turned comedian Tom Wrigglesworth and Rob Bell, rising star of mechanical engineering, climb on board Victor X-ray, a 200 ton, £200,000,000 Boeing 747. This jumbo jet has flown over 36 million miles in its 14 year life with British Airways. Now it will be broken into tens of thousands of parts in the airline's maintenance hangar in Cardiff.

59 min · 1 Jan 2013
EPISODE 2

Gas Rig Strip-Down

Engineer turned comedian Tom Wrigglesworth and Rob Bell, rising star of mechanical engineering, tell the story as an entire North Sea Gas installation, the Lima Platform, is pulled from the sea by floating cranes, brought back to Newcastle, and then torn into tiny pieces for recycling. However, the platform is not just thousands of tons of steel. It was once home to the men and women called the North Sea Tigers.

59 min · 1 Jan 2013
EPISODE 3

Ferry Strip-Down

Tom Wrigglesworth and Rob Bell, rising star of mechanical engineering, climb on board the The Pride of Bruges, a massive, 25,000-ton North Sea ferry as it is brought into dry dock in Newcastle. It has been ploughing the route from Hull to Zeebrugge for over a quarter of a century and is now in need of the biggest overhaul of its life in an attempt to prolong its seaworthiness for another decade.

58 min · 1 Jan 2013

Tom Wrigglesworth

Host
Rob Bell

Host