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The Golden day's.....💗

It’s usually criminals and soap dodgers 😂

Wherever you went in the country you'd always see the tartan army on the road, good crack with the drivers on cb's or in cafes always.

I remember as a child in the late 1950's in my father's car, going up Shap behind the lorries at about 5 mph. It used to take 2 days to go to Scotland.

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@hotmail No mention of not being able to stop at the jungle cafe after coming off Shap because the brakes where so hot so useless, Would try to stop at cafe but sometimes just had to go round it and carry on into Kendal. Dad

No credits but I doubt it's all your own work.

Great video thanks loved it 😊

Was working in shap about 18 years ago on a school roof installing a/c the rain was so bad it was a 26 hour shift so not fond of the place

Great film , had to save it 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

😅remember it from the 50s &60s going up and down with my father and in the jungle cafe when I was at school and this was amazing to see went on to be a lorry driver but never drove the route am now 73 great memories

Hi. Garry. I have a a Lamd Saag and a Lamd madras both with extra free chilled in front of me RIGHT NOW. want to fridge them and get my cave SLICED BEEF , GREEN PEPPERS AND BLACK BEAN SAUCE.😰😋

My dad used to drive on it but he had to have a bottle of buckfast to help 😂😂😂😂😂

More film RUINED by addition of stupid musak. Unwatchable.

As kids we always wanted to stop at the Jungle. Came across many a jack knife. Lived in Abington in the early sixties then later at Forth. Our great neighbour and family friend drove for Tennents. Lovely film.... Thankyou

I have a Potts of Leeds clock ex Railway hanging on my kitchen wall. Refurbished by Potts some years ago 7 day and still keeps perfect time. What a fantastic video this is.

bygone times the best, life was simple and full of hope. Now lost in time never to return, such a shame I miss the dearly.

Grew up in south / west Scotland so travelled over Shap many times, has a different feel now a days. As a kid, in an old fashoined car , was a frightening place in bad weather . Fingers crossed you got to destination, in those days you "did" take sleeping bag / flask of T etc, was very common to get stuck. Thats another point, we dont get winters like we used to in the 1950-1960's, those winters were brutal, compared to 1990's onwards.

Makes me feel old when these lorries weren't vintage when i was young.

Sad to think all that wonderful engineering skill is now no more. I remember Ranks Millers in Limerick (Ireland) used Foden trucks.

Yes ; our American MACK truck was nicknamed by you Britt's during the Great War '' Bull Dog '' !

Been up and down that road in my old tk many times to join the m6 moving my horses from nr askham to Cheshire

Weeeee.Psssss.

This was definitely George Bowie

The introduction of bedford trucks and a small pickup was tge work of Laurence Hartnett ,who then went to Australia and organised the buy out of Holdens and thus setting up GMH , general motors Holden.

Tge chap at the beginning playing with the steam device is Henry Ford 😊

I pedal it never again

i dont know the area but a friend who grew up in Giggleswick says that "Dirty Heavy weather Road" by Poet and The One Man Band was inspired by the band going over shap in a storm in a transit van in the 60's

Why can no one, and i mean not a single person in the comment section. String a fuking sentence together. What is wrong with all you clowns. Has English in Britain gotten this bad🤦🤦.

“Snowed in on Shap on the Manchester Run” a line from Ewan MacColl’s “champion at keeping them rolling”.

This my era,trips to Scotland watching lorries struggle up and over Shap. Roads had no pot holes,good road surfaces.

A couple of stories first goes back to my grandfathers apprenticeship as a bus mechanic circa 1920. Many lorry and bus drivers and mechanics didn't have the knack of hand cranking large engines so they were often tow or push started. This wasn't possible with petrol-electric (Tilling-Stevens) drives so often buses particularly were left running 24-7 Circa 1938 the war department and home office were buying up and requisitioning as many civilian trucks as they could, my grandfather now in his own business kept my father and uncle busy overhauling many of these lorries many of which dated back to the early 1920's perhaps even WW1. A lot of these were chain drive Albions. Most were never actually used as new vehicle production quickly ramped up.

When the “Great” in Britain really stood for something! I could expand on this a lot further, but with the current petrified climate I’d only e shot down in flames! So, so sad!!!

Penrith is pronounced PENrith and Longsleddale is pronounced LongSLEDdle (emphasising the capitals).

What year was this documentary please

I drove with Onward & Ackworth , Suttons and Smith of Maddison all rope and sheeting loads and remember it well the good times are all gone .

i learnt to drive on those old trucks

Never been there but loved that video, and loved the stories

Fabulous footage, very informative. THIS is history. Thanks so much.

The Albion lorries from Sctstoun were on test runs on Shap. The " vehicle " was just the chassis engine - the driver miraculously perched on his seat wrapped in his great coat. The " dip " in the road at Shap village ensured the revs were up .

Cameron brewery hartlepool draymen.new it well. Arthur storey.said.

*Year: 1995 - DVD Release date ‏ : ‎ 23 Oct. 2006*

thankyou

Never used this route but as a kid in the early 1950's travelled the A1 from North Lincs to relatives in Newcastle, 130 miles in about four hours! Lorries back then were 20mph speed limit and often belching out sickly black exhaust smoke in convoy. Only a few miles dual carriageway and no bypass roads. Thank goodness Dad had a 1938 Rover 12 a very comfortable car back then.

I have passed through shap on the train heading to blackpool. I like both of those places.

Albion, AEC, Atkinson and Foden, no Mercedes, DAF, Volvo etc!

Yes i have driven that Route once or twice Car , Train ... but Used M6 when it had snow on the A6 was just a little to much with out 4 wheel drive ... Additionally it would been a Stiff hard run for the Steam traction Trucks ...

It’s pronounced Penrith not PEN rith , very irritating ☹️

In my opinion, the greatest and most exciting aircraft ever built.

Anyone know what year this was