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Very good trucks and engines! In Poland many trucks used Leyland diesel engines as base!

Sublime! Thank you.

I dont get tired of watching this video!🎉

'.... And women drivers are welcomed' - what they thought was equitable now feels painfully patronising

I remember these amazing vehicles at Instow North Devon where I grew up.They went on until the 70’s.

I used to have this on a vhs video. Fantastic stuff. 16.25, from my experience that might have been salt water.

Am I tw'early. Yeah they still do this now, and I said if I get to that age to my wife just to shoot me.

Americans called the gmc 2.5 ton truck the "deuce and a half". The DUKW can be called the "Duck and a half".

Awesome awesome 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

The vast majority of these people are probably dead now!

The music is better as the lorry.

I wonder how Great Britain Will Handle Electric Cars Or Flying Cars In The 2030s

Now there all made in China !!

A small car with the biggest heart ever

Road digging is a favourite pastime in summer.....Life on the road may be a gay one .... Oh Man!

Thanks for the upload. No wonder BMC lost money on every car sold. Very labour intensive production line.

Over here in Brisbane when passengers get off the bus they they say 'thank you' to the driver, I can't remember hearing that in london, I'm over here now and I do what the Roman's do

look at that dog 😂

Easier and quicker off the points with a conductor.

I understand the AEC engine and gearbox was fitted to the 1930s GWR railcar which was updated to be a BR type post war. GWR thought the engine well proven and ideal clutch type. If taken along side the 1930s English Electric diesel unit it was remarkably compact. The EE was a modular design. The Oxford bus company had similar AEC buses which Oxford thought slightly better. The Oxford bus museum Long Hanborough has various types. The 1948 ( RT? ) very comfortable. 9 MPG I was told or better. AEC Matador lorries are celebrated. EE locomotive - railcar called Thumpers also using the generic EE engine. 08 class shunter type the origine for LMS ( 1947 LMS 10 000 - 10 0001 related ) . GWR almost saved the branch lines with AEC help. BTH ( EE ? Napier ) units also used.

Back then even construction workers would go to work in some kind of suit and a tie

I'm surprised they're allowed to drink openly without any body rising a finger 🤞. Try that today in some places and you're out in a second and ofcourse in very hot soup

The Former Aldenham Overhaul Bus Works is Now part of Centennial Park in Elstree Hertfordshire

Does anyone know where to find the rest of these? Some irritated rights holder conglomerate obliterated all of the episodes already on TH-cam which is pointless considering they wouldn’t bother uploading them themselves

Great stuff!! I remember this when it 1st went out narrated by the late John Peel back in 1994 but it’s now I realise that 97 SPK (now preserved) was actually fully automatic… Never realised that

amazing videos

It's been steadily downhill since the RM, the short lives and horrendous cost of the latest buses is frightening.

Thinking hands and skilled machines would have been better.

Not a merger, a takeover to eliminate its main competitor.

What year was this film produced?

Will always have a soft spot for these. Passed my class 1 in one back in the day.

When workers/drivers got on with the job no complaining about everything , different world now 🥃

It really is beyond Magic where all the petrol/diesel comes from !!

OH , the days where men and backs were broken and not a power steering in sight and splitter boxes on a distance horizon . Remember it well with my late farther and the language , when roping and sheeting in the rain . Thank you VOLVO for making some good trucks . Rest in peace all UK made trucks .

The first BMW X3 😏

what a brutal ending 😱

A clever idea that coupler. I bet it was a sod when it got a bit of wear in it.

The propaganda started in the 60s

funny to see her wake-up: with complete make-up and hairdress :)))

Interesting, I was a soldier with 18 Amph Sqn RCT (RASC) in Fremington, driving, sailing and maintaining these vehicles, that was in 1968.

The Eastern European and Soviet satellite countries those in military service and drivers were trained in road route knowledge of the western nations of Europe in case of WW3 - lots of spying and espionage took place amongst long distance haulage to map out key locations and targets during those halcyon days 😉 interesting times when Jim drove ERF English Road Freighter truck into Europe and Hans drove his Henschel Hanomag into UK 😂 great classic trucks

Amongst the appeal of vintage films like this for me, are: the background music (not rock or pop influenced), the quality of the film - which simplifies shadows, light and colour, the voice-over, the nostalgia element (I was 4), and more than anything, the visible actuality of recent history - rather than how it’s currently being re-written….

So how did the sand/ballast get up there?

The best thing about this short movie. To me, is the accent the narrator has. Plus the scenic views. I love it. That is why I keep coming back to watch this. Over, and over again

When I 1st started life as lorry driver a very long time ago, the company I worked for had a couple of these left being used as shunting lorries in a yard. They were converted to a hydraulic 5th wheel that could be raised and lowered in the cab. They were really good in the dry, but when things got icy or snowy they were a nightmare, you had to really slow down.

I must say it's a shame about the watermark. I know why you do it, but it does somewhat ruin the viewing experience.

Nice idea, but eventually the town centres have filled up again because more and more people had cars.

LOOK AT LIFE , REALLY IN MY VIEW INTERESTING DOCUMENTARIES 😃

BRILLIANT DESIGN SOMEONE SHOULD MAKE A E.V VERSION!!!??

Love these old films, propper lorries. I wonder how many of today's modern drivers would have coped. No ratchet straps or curtain siders, just ropes and sheets, which I used to use. And then there's the lorries themselves, no power steering and no multiple split shift gear box, plus you would have to keep a paper log of everything you did. And a very early texting system!