Your Driving Test - 1935
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- In 1935 the driving test became compulsory in the UK. Ford made this film, with commentary by Sir Malcolm Campbell, to reassure would-be drivers that the test was not something to fear. His commentary is witty and the film shows some of the hazards a new motorist might expect to encounter on the roads of the 1930s.
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Congratulations, Aziraphale, for passing🎉😘 Proud of u
Hah! Came here from Neil's blog too
@@eris2178 Always a pleasure to meet another Good Omens enthusiast in the wild
Mr. Fell did very good 😄😄
Found my people
all the good omens fans are flocking to this video
So this is what Aziraphale had to go trough to get his driver license 👀
WHY IM WATCHING HAHAHA I bet he’d have issues reversing but was on the dot with everything else. Maybe just a little anxious 😂😂 also bet Crowley cheated his way through
@@anastasiamatthews9064imo there's no way crowley bothered to take the test
@@logsday if he did I bet it was for funsies to scare the instructor 💀😂😂
@@anastasiamatthews9064 omg he would do that haha
Omg yes! Of course Crowley cheated, he couldn't care less about the rules of driving, he only cares of looking cool while doing it 😂
Linked as Aziraphales driving test
Aziraphale definitely used a couple miracles to pass his test
There were definitely a few minor miracles involved 😇😇
Neil Gaiman sent me here
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I'm watching this because of Neil gaiman
Why is Aziraphale not in this video? I came here for Aziraphale
so proud of azzy 😌❤️
I’m here because of Neil Gaiman
I like how at 3:36 the examiner had to open the door just to be absolutely sure the car had not parked outside the requisite eleven feet 9 inches from the kerb! 🤨🏆
" Driving merrily along and wishing to pass another car ...." God, what a world. Surely it was never that innocent.
.. mind you there was no mobile phone or gps or 10inch lcd screen or cassette recorder for that matter..
My first car was a 1932 model Y Ford. Used to use the starting handle, to save the battery. Made a fabric cover in front grill so engine would warm up in winter. Paid £25 for it. Can still remember hand signals. What would it be worth now?
It was at least 20 years later when I took my test.
@@nickhickson8738 I sat mine.
😂😂😂😂😂
I came here "for" Aziraphale, and I stayed for the dry humour and fell in love. Wish all the learning materials / adverts were like this nowadays. :D
This is filmed around Sutton, Surrey, Particularly around Angel Hill (hill start, parking and road hogging), Sutton Common Road and outside the Angel pub (reversing between lorry and car) and Sutton Common Station (3 point turn).
My dad took his car driving test aged only 16 in 1937 and passed. I have his test pass 1st dated licence when he was underage? Dad lived to be 98, he stopped his scary driving aged 95
Haha, took my test in 1983 in my 1955 Ford Prefect. The examiner seemed a bit put out when he reached for the seatbelt and couldn't find it. He turned to look and realised......there weren't any!
nice.
When my dad bought me a Ford Prefect, he told me it was a '49. The bearings went out in about a year and it sat by Dad's barn for several years before he sold it. I've never been able to find a picture of a '49 Prefect that looked like "mine" so I wonder whether it was another year than '49. "Mine" had no air cleaner, no heater, no radio, wood floor boards, little arms that came out of the door pillers for turn signals (one still had a light in it). Mechanical brakes. Cotton cord tires. Suicide rear doors. (Front doors were hinged at the front.) Crank out windshield. Top of car looked like steel from the side but the top was some kind of "canvas" stretched over wood and painted with what looked like tar. 3-on-the floor. No syncro in first. 4 cylinders about the size of the small frozen orange juice "cans" you could buy in the '50s. Vacuum wipers that didn't work (on my car) at all except while going downhill or decelerating. Headlights that wouldn't stay in alignment and, even when the were aligned, illuminated the pavement for only about a car-length in front of the headlights. Knee-action shock absorbers (I don't think they had any effect on the bouncing at all). The previous owner had bought a bumper sticker for it: "It wasn't Sanforized." How many people remember what Sanforizing was?
@@rogermetzger7335 Could it perhaps be a wartime one for a government official? Wooden floors made me think it was a cost cutting measure, useful during wartime. Canvas roofs were a prewar thing before 1938 (I think) in the U.S.A..
Lol
😂😂😂
These drivers are way better than some of the nutters we,ve got now.
I passed mine today and wondered what it was first like! Very interesting to see some things are still the same like the 'show me tell me questions'
He was so smartly dressed that his bad driving didn't matter. He is guaranteed to pass.
Interesting they were already using L plates in 1935. Sometimes in the USA I wish we had some way to tell if someone was an inexperienced driver. (Student drivers under 16 often have one on the roof, but others do not)
In the UK, we have green P plates. They aren't legally required but they are an indicator that the person is newly qualified.
You can buy student driver magnets for your car
Just a little information regarding this film; the location is Sutton Surrey, the overhead shots were taken from the Angel Hill footbridge which was I understand hit by a bomb during the war, but has been replaced twice since; the hill starts and other static shots were taken next to the bridge on the approach to Sutton Common Road, and the maneuvers on the railway bridge by Sutton Common Station, The reverse is performed into the Angel pub, which appears to be under construction, all these place are little changed today and can easily be recognised although the Angel pub is now a Tescos local store. The start is I believe by the Grapes pub in the High Street, which is again still in place, but the High Street has now been pedestrianised.
That's great information, thank you
Thank you, that's interesting to know. I live not far from Sutton and took my test in Surbiton. I remember once, just after I passed my test, getting stuck at the top of the high street in Sutton whilst attempting to pull away from the traffic lights there.
Proper chaps, proper attire incl. driving with hats, propers motor cars, proper music and proper Cholmondley Warner commentary. The only thing missing were pipes firmly clenched in the mouths of the examiner and examinee. That would have topped it.
Tremendous and very clear old footage (digitally remastered I would suspect). Sadly, ‘Courteous and safe use’ on our highways, roads nowadays is none existent. How times have changed.
Commentator Sir Malcolm Campbell. He was one of the few land speed record holders of his era to die of natural causes, as so many had died in crashes.
Yes the man of which was going 200 miles per hour by the 1920's. Not surprising really, I see so much doubt on anything in relation to an accomplishment in the 1920's with basically all the modern commentors saying that anything in the 1920's is incapable of being impressive and that if it is, they should make sure that it's called ahead of it's time as insensitive as that is, and compare it to now rather than then as though we have something to show for today. Of course this looks to be around 1934 with a English made variation of a Ford Tudor, not the American version. Just see to watching a lovely galliant film named "Los Angeles wonder city of the west' taken in 1935 by a special cinecolor camera. All real color, it takes the spectrum light and different forms of either starch, but later filmograph shape blend each of the primary and secondary colors to their closest relative. Most always turning out exact, with a little of a dark contrast and unsaturation but nothing the eye can bring to understanding how it would look if shown by eye.
The dog taking a pee at 3.30 just added to the hilarity.
Good spot!
Great footage. I got my license in Kentucky in the 1970's driving with a state police officer. I was so nervous it was a really hot summer day and I forgot to turn the air conditioner on! I passed the test but the officer said I was a little heavy on the accelorator and some air conditioning would have been nice, Lol
"Is your driving tentative? Does it leck confidence? Then drink GIN. Recommended for the nervous driver. See what it does for this chep..." Good old Paul Whitehouse.
So proud of aziraphale for passing 🎉
I learned to drive in a 62 Volkswagen
I took my test in January of 73 and barely passed
My friend gloated he got a 100% on his test
Two weeks later he also had two speeding tickets in his hand
😆
"It looks funny, I know. But examiners don't appreciate such humor." LOL.
At the time this film was made Sir Malcolm Campbell lived at Headley Hall, Headley, Surrey, just 10 miles from the filming locations around Sutton.
my dad never had to take a test, my mother did have to though in1940
Not so fun fact-there were about 6,200 road deaths on UK roads in 1935 compared to 1,800 in 2014.
ItsJustMarissa xo The quality of the vehicles has very little to do with it.
ItsJustMarissa xo Nothing to apologise for-it is a pleasure to communicate with a polite person on U tube-and very rare!!!!!
Quite a few of those back then will have been to horse traffic too.
Probably continued at 6000 deaths until about 21st century too, seat belts were fitted and available decades before being made compulsory to wear too, as well as crash helmets.
I just love how the entirety of the Good Omens Fandom is here😂😂😂
lovely look back. some classic British Ford cars and trucks. who could imagine then reversing cameras, auto parking never mind air con. nice to see a driver in a good hat!
Luv ya Brits! Want to visit London so badly....but it is soooo cold! Greetings from sunny and warm St Petersburg, Fl.
Congrats for passing Aziraphale. I‘m a little disappointed you didn’t miracle the car yellow tho.
Ah yes I remember my lesson with Cravat School of Motoring when the instructor caught his spats in the choke cable.
failed mine today, should of watched this before hand !
george formby lol
I'm not able to drive right now, but I look forward to drive when I'm 18.
Doesn't mean you shouldn't practice, though.
@Jan BradySo, you're saying I'm not going to be able to drive?
@Jan Brady Okay.
"A big bleck blot on the draiver's cawpy book"
Seems much easier than now
Its the arm signals for me... 🤣🤣
Very amusing ,it would never pass a test today. Stopping to far away from the kerb he said wouldn't do, but did you see the very high wall almost on top of the kerb lol.
Once you have pass your driving test, drive down to the pub and have a few pints to celebrate
What a charming film .
Parking in a space is one thing getting out the door another.
In Thailand around 1985. A Hand signals used to appear in driving tests.
One or two minor hiccups but he still passed!
At one time (as late as the 60s I think) you could get a full licence just by having about 3 or 4 provisional licences (which I think lasted for six months).
Thanks
what if i want to turn left? how do i show my hand?
To indicate a left turn the arm is rotated
"A member of the fellowship of the road" Golly gosh I wish we had such titles these days 🥲
unintentionally hilarious
I'm old enough to remember having to give hand signals (whilst occasionally flicking out ciggy butts - neither of which would happen now!).
Enjoyed this video. Times were slower, people respected each other.
I got my drivers licence almost 50 years ago. I have driven in 3 continents for many years.
There is no respect on the roads today. It's a free for all. Drivers make their own rules which suites them.
Wagons drive you off the road. If you want to live, better to pull over and let them pass.
In my opinion we are heading for Mad Max conditions in the future. Just like the movie.
So much road rage. Impatience. Wont surprise me if in the future drivers will be armed with guns. Then if someone annoys you, cuts you off just shoot them. No questions asked. That's what it's coming to.
I am grateful.i enjoyed the good years of driving.
are u really saying the roads were safer 50 years ago?
@@noaerrr Cars were slower. No turbos.Yes, thats what I am saying! Roads back then were adapted for the cars. Today(2022) roads are far behind, cars to powerful. I lived back then. Why would I say something, if I didn't live back then.
@@percybriscoe9886 statically you are less likely to be involved in a car accident now than 50 years ago, meaning the roads are safer. Also there were turbos
This prediction is wrong as cars are moving further towards ai robots on 4 wheels
Malcolm Campbell? Surely that fine narrative was delivered by none other than Mr. Cholmondely-Warner.
I didn’t see him use his indicator once!
Because the car doesn’t have them hence the hand signals
Yeah, roll back on a hill...hit the car behind and drive off.... And he passed??!!!
Why did they had to bring their driving license before passing the test?
That guy passed???
Just notice the roads so clean and smooth not a pothole in sight. !!! Imagine driving on a road like that now. ? 21st Century is shit . Mr Chubbly Warner
Mr Cholmondley -Warner appears to be the examiner here.
One should have a few years of driving experience before taking the test.
We use hand signals in america today, mostly we tell each other they are number '1' usually with the middle finger.
Ah, yes, I remember it well...:)
I say! Topping, what?😁
dont see any road markings , white lines , give way , stop , etc . anyone know when they were brought in ?
+TAILSESTVITA1955 Our Enquiries Officer has the following reply to your query:
"There’s a good deal of debate about the origins of white lines
in the road. There’s a well known story about a gentleman in Lancashire
chalking or painting white line in the middle of the road on a
dangerous bend to try to prevent further collisions. This is variously reported
as 1916 or the early 1920s. However there are numerous other claims for
Kent, the USA and Canada at this time or earlier. Certainly in the mid 1920s
the Ministry of Transport gave approval to such white lines and started to
introduce some road markings, mostly stop or give way lines at junctions.
The Ministry of Transport issued guidelines in 1933 stating
lines could be placed on the road to indicate:1) - Places where traffic must stop when ordered to do so by either a Police officer engaged in traffic control or a light signal (i.e. a junction).2) - Route to be taken by traffic at road junctions.- Proximity of street refuges.
- Crossing places for pedestrians where traffic is normally controlled by a
Police officer or by light signals.
The practice continued to grow through the 1930s but became more
widespread during the 1940s. The major problem was that, at that time, they
did not have a paint that was resilient enough to last long on the road
surface."
+TAILSESTVITA1955 Road markings were still not widely used on minor roads in the 50s and sixties-precedence at minor crossroads was mainly decided by the road surface-the broken surface gave way to the continuous surface-I also remember a plethora of stainless steel studs in the surface-a nightmare for motorcyclists when wet!
And remember always offer the examiner a cigarette, manners cost very little. Who knows he might offer you a tot of rum in return, to steady those nerves
.. and do offer to open and close the door thereafter.. good manners pays
5:50 what car is that
Love that big V8 car - and the music in the background too :-)
Mozart or Beethoven?
@@nickhickson8738 ñ
Just watch that car bounce!! Nice Shockers Ford!! Lol :-)
What does the examiner really like...hard to say since he hates so many things...maybe a sealed envelope with a 10 pound note in it?
He certainly would have then, it would probably have been about 2/3 weeks wages!
I wish I had been born in the 1930s instead of in the 1960s.
Driving learning with Mozart 😅
Why didn't they just use the indicator?
Just joking of course! Awesome vid.
so what about the ability to follow a sat-nav? did they not test for this!
Wow😮
I wonder if mobile phones were allowed while driving back then!
Only for time travellers
The driving test has in the UK become s Gold Plated thing. A big mistake. Confidence tricks examiners. I taught my children to be confident and that matters over their driving skills. One Size fits all with the DVSA and they are blind as hell. Play Confident with them and you will pass their obstacle test
This is so cool!
Sad its on the wrong side lol
The loosely stacked bricks were frightening. As to the examples of bad driving. I think the majority of today’s daily drivers, would fail the 1935 test.
3:04 time traveller spotted
Can't figure out what Ford that is with suicide doors.
3:29 DOG PEEING ON THE TREE
6:28 He finishes by parking illegally on the wrong side of the road !!
Nothing illegal in that.
spartacusvikinga It's legal only if that was a one-way road. But it isn't, as shown by the cyclist pedalling past.
AKLDGUY It is not illegal even in a two way road. At night time, yes as the reflectors of the car will not be visible but not during the day.
spartacusvikinga It is illegal where I live (New Zealand) and I believe it also has been in the UK since before the film was made. If it isn't, it should be. The ruling here in New Zealand is that in order to park facing the wrong way, one performs an illegal manoeuver - that is, driving on the wrong side and risking a head-on crash or hitting a pedestrian who is crossing the road from the safe side.
AKLDGUY In the UK it is not illegal. Highway Code rule 248. Not sure about NZ. Ii is also legal to do a right hand reverse in the UK which involves driving onto the wrong side of the road to do. I do agree that extra care is needed and is to be noted but it is not illegal in the UK. You MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space. Highway Code rule 248 but I understand the point you make.
BVW730, is that a Buick?
BVW730 is a 1935 USA model Ford, appears to be a "flatback" Fordor. These export models were built in Canada, I think.
Was the steel bumper bar designed for the learner Driver?
The "bunny hop" from stationary almost a thing of the past with modern automobiles fitted with automatic transmissions.
It’s a thing of the past in North America and some of Asia, not so much everywhere else. 80% of the cars on British roads today are manual, only 2% of cars in America are manual.
Is this a real film or a Harry Enfield spoof?
The tesla driver’s great great grandparents
6:44 It says 1930 to 1934 ...
+motanelustelistu You have keen eyesight!
Driving tests for all were introduced from March 1935, at first on a voluntary basis but from June they were compulsory for everyone who had taken out a driving licence after 1st April 1934 . The legislation requiring this was the 1934 Road Traffic Act. The 1930 Road Traffic Act had already introduced compulsory driving tests for the disabled.
this made me laugh
I wish there are laugh button
Tell me who were all still alive during this time. I already know a few
So you needed insurance in 1935.
This was 5 years before they faced Hitler head on to defend their Country.
And defended themselves single handedly until the U.S. decided to help them. 🇺🇸
Was this a Monty Python skit?
whyare cars back than so much more bouncier than cars nowadays??
+RT & Company I'm guessing the shock absorbers weren't as effective if they had them at all.
Leaf Springs, they had no shock absorbers or coil overs.
Roger HuangRT yes they are very bouncy
Your wife is bouncy too good fellow hear hear
lol you need a drivers license before you take the test dafuq
A provisional drivers license....
Collins LFC did not no they had provisional in those days
You do nearly everywhere...
It was probably the same over there as it is in New Zealand. You have to have a learners licence to be allowed behind the wheel of a car and to get a learners licence you have to take the theory test first to show that you know the road rules.