Original Photos of British Cars 1950s - 1960s Part 7 | Classic Morris, Ford, Vauxhall, Lotus etc
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2022
- Yet more classic cars of the 1950s and 1960s photographed during those times make up this, the 7th instalment in the Original Photos of British Cars 1950s - 1960s series here on the Old Classic Car TH-cam channel.
As with the previous vids, family favourites from the likes of Ford, Morris and Vauxhall, rub door handles with sportier gems such as a Lotus 7 & Elan, a one-off special, MGA roadster, and a Triumph TR3. Also included are photos of Austin's rival to the Land Rover, the 4x4 Austin Gipsy, and period scenes of a BMC service facility where all manner of BMC/Nuffield cars are in evidence.
Once again a big thanks to everyone that provided photos for this upload, it's fascinating to receive scans of your old photos along with a spot of background information on the cars and people that might feature in them. If you have any old photos that you're able to scan, taken in the 1950s or 1960s, it'd be great to see them and if they are used, are always credited to their owner(s).
If you like classic British cars, hopefully there'll be something in this series of vids to interest you. Photographing classic cars at shows today is good and I do it regularly, but you can't beat looking at original photos to really understand what it was like to own and drive these now-collected cars when they were just normal cars with no nostalgia attached to them.
Please take a look around the rest of the channel if you haven't already, there are hundreds of different videos relating to old cars on here now, including many photo collections similar to this one.
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Every year usually at Christmas Dad would get out his projector, pull down the white screen ,and put on =5 slide show talking much like you . Sadly when he passed away the projecter and slides got lost . I miss that. Thank you for bringing back that nostalgia nostalga..
Brilliant photos, life was so much simpler back then!. I think that the mgb and roadster pre rubber bumper are still among the most beautiful sports cars ever made, even the rubber bumper models I like. Many thanks again. Gérard.
The roads were so quiet and peaceful back then. Great to see those wonderful "proper" vehicles with no unnecessary electrics and definitely no computer diagnostics.
I really love these videos of 50s/60s cars - takes me right back to my childhood, with not a care in the world . How times have changed 60 years on! ! My favourite way to spend a lazy Sunday morning - big cup of coffee and a new video from OCC - PERFECT. Thank you for all your effort in compiling these for us - greatly appreciated. 🙂
Thanks Michael
Great upload with gentle music,thanks Sir.
Thank god we have these classic clips of or old lives, with our old cars.
Glad they're of interest
@@oldclassiccarUK Thanks! I love seeing these old motors from the past, especially the 5o's & 60's models..
Thank you for the great upload and to the folk that sent the photos in,it really is great to see these cars in photos when they were new as gives a feel of the era they came from,much appreciated,best wishes to yourself,family,friends and fellow viewers.
Thanks Sun Shine
@@oldclassiccarUK , My pleasure.
@@oldclassiccarUK , My pleasure.
Favourites: #1 all the colour photos in Scotland from Jim Crosthwaite, #2 16:37 Elva BMW GT, #3 14:17 a gaggle of Ford Transit Mk Is. 😁
Check out the story of the colour slides on a response to TomCats comment.
I used to have a trailer, called an 'Eezion', like the one behind the Gypsy, it was very nice to use giving a really low floor level for loading, but also extraordinarily heavy, giving my Bedford CF truck a hard time when loaded with a tracked piling rig. You had to keep all the linkages in top condition or it would scrub the tyres and push you about on the road. Great collection here!
Back in the day!!
Very nice of all those who sent photos, thank you. Having been born in the Midlands I remember that roads seemed to be continually being reworkeed or new ones built. That area was quite bomb damged from WW2, huge wooden props on buildings being the norm. All those photos were very interesting and no traffic wardens! Thanks Rick for putting his collection together.
Thanks Stephen!
Great video. Lovely photos and great selection of cars. Brings back lots of memories.
A relaxing joy to watch. Some of these photos definitely strike a nostalgic chord or two.
Made me remember just what a faff taking photos actually was back in the day. Buy the film, take the photo and wondering if it would be ok, take the film to a chemist to get developed which took about 1 week, getting the photos back and then sitting going through them to find some were a total disaster then mounting them in a photo album which nobody ever looked at eventually and saving the negatives so you could get your favourite enlarged. I even recall flash bulbs you bought separately. Today, take out your phone, point and shoot and an instant result without thinking, We had many albums and this got me wondering what ever happened to all of them.
Over to the other channel now.
There's another channel????!!!?!??!!???!!?!?!?!?????? :)
@@oldclassiccarUK Nudge, Nudge, wink, wink say no more, 😉😉
Brilliant, some great pictures as usual. Brings back memories of some great times for me.
Excellent content just love cars that you can identify each one different but better still you can repair without the need for a computer
So enjoying these images and your very usefull reminders.
Thanks Andrew
Wow Jim Crosthwaite's photos are amazing, he knew what he was doing with that camera. 👍
Yes they're excellent aren't they
I totally agree the photographer did know what they were doing , but I was just a baby in a pram when many were taken :)
I bought 18 boxes of colour slides ( 200-300 per box) from an estate , the photographer was one of two possible persons , if I was sure which I would credit them.
One was a librarian, the other an architect, so they would have had money to travel , to buy good equipment, and buy , and get processed , early colour slide film . ( and as we can see the skill to use it expertly)
Each box from different area of the U.K. from 50s to the 80s, and with me being in a Cine & Digital video club, I coughed up £100 to buy them all so stop the collection being broken up any more ( Sadly some had already been disposed of , and that was hugely disappointing to hear.
Through the club , I have access to equipment to scan them and digitise them ( and that is the extent of credit I can take of these. )
I will scan all the slides ( including fishing boats, steamers etc. ) and we will make a film for showing our Community Cinema , but it will take me a long time to scan them all . Our members are mostly elderly, and will love the nostalgia of trips ‘doon the watter ‘ and around Scotland .
@@A2Z1Two3 Thank you for buying them and scanning and uploading, I thought they were from slides, beautiful colour. Now with computational photography on smartphones anyone can take a good photo but is it interesting? The photographer may have used a tripod and a very good camera. Wonderful to see such quality. Goodonya from Australia.
@@tomcat7525 My old dad drove me around in old cars like those as a kid.
When he was on his last legs , I could not get him to go outdoors, until I suggested a trip to the Museum of Transport in Glasgow part of the Kelvin Halls ( now houses the Moving Image Archive)
He was up and out like a young’un that day.
Sadly it was to be our last outing , but it was a great day as it was before the hide all the cars halfway up the walls in the new place on the Clyde, and he would tell me all the wee quirks of the various models ( he had been a mechanic) .
Happy/sad memories, for me.
Glad you enjoyed the slides TomCat
Really enjoyed those thank you. The shot you referred too as the colour shot of the Austin Gypsy I believe is a hand coloured B and W photo. My mother in law used to hand colour B and W photos for a photographer. Putting rosey red checks on children and the photographer would include a note as to the colour of clothes. She used watercolours and it was a definite skill to add the realism of colour.
So much more civilised then.
I call it pre muzzer.
Great photos of classics thanks to all..should of sent couple I have 😎👌
There's still time as future instalments are planned :)
nice video again please keep them coming. brian d.
I'll do my best!
@@oldclassiccarUK thank you.
Great selection, great video and thanks to Keith and fellow contributors aswell! Well done 👍. Very enjoyable, more please!👍😊
More to come!
Another great collection of cars, especially the colour photos. Shame cars these days are designed by computers, not hand drawn by designer's, today's cars have no character or soul and all look the same.
Thanks for the great photos and memories. I believe that at 3.25 is a Mk 3 Consul not a Zephyr at least as they were in Australia.
Cheers, Mark
Interesting, I don't think we had a Mk3 Consul here
So maybe it was a base model Zephyr as the Aussie Mk 3 Zephyrs had a split or 2 section grille.
Did you maybe have 4 and 6 cylinder Zephyrs that would have had different grills?
In the UK this was a "Zephyr 4". The "6", which had a split grille, featured prominently in the popular BBC TV series "Z Cars" of the time.
@@oldclassiccarUK The 'MK.III Consul' was actually called a Zephyr 4, the Consul name was put on hold until the seventies when it reappeared on the 'Sweeney' Consul and Granada cars.
Further to previous answers,in the UK after the mk2,the Consul name was used in conjunction with other models for a while such as the Consul Classic and the Consul Corsair that superseded it. Even the original Cortina was a Consul Cortina originally.After a while,even Ford realised that it was a daft idea and the Consul part of the name was quietly dropped.We didn’t see it again until the’70’s when it was used on the more basic versions of the Granada and strangely the Consul GT(used in The Sweeney).It seemed a bit silly for one of the flagship models to revert to the Consul name.They were all called Granadas after the mid life face lift and we never saw the Consul name again.Someone at Ford must have been really attached to the name though.
A really great selection of photographs from yourself and contributers. Many thanks, most enjoyable.
Great vid evoking many childhood memories 👍
Thanks!
Great collection of photos. heers Bob
Thanks Bob!
Looks like a commer van in Loch Lomond Hotel shot.
Always look forward to these! I think the van at 13:11 is actually an FC Commer and the 1100 in the preceding slide appears to be the Wolseley (you can just see the forward slash of the side chrome strip in front of the wheel arch). I agree with your comments about the roads too - wide, uncluttered and sparsely furnished. Apart from the oil stains of course!
My grandfather worked as the press officer at the BMC factory in Cowley Oxford during the 1950s and 60s and was in charge to show the first Mini to the world press on its launch.
That must have been an interesting place to work
@@oldclassiccarUK Unfortunately the unions crippled the production line on a daily basis by ringing a bell. When I visited the bell sounded and work stopped because one side of the factory had chocolate biscuits and the other side didn't. You couldn't make it up.
@@garethjudd5840 It's hardly surprising that the whole industry collapsed in on itself is it, such a shame.
These are the best set of photos yet,some absolute belters.Loving the vans and plant machinery.The only make of roller I know is Aveling Barford so I’m going for that.Keep up the good work.
very interesting as always. thanks for these.
Great to see the rare MK1 Singer Gazelle convertible, it would have had the 1500cc ohc engine, the same engine as the previous Singer Hunter also an ultra rare car. I owned one MK1 Singer Gazelle saloon and three Singer Hunters with the horses head mascot.
so wonderful of you to keep posting these
Thanks, I enjoy putting them together
Really cool..think I may have seen a couple of those ones 20 years or so back in the Cheshire Molesworth car museum place?
Yes I remember Mouldsworth museum, I volunteered there one summer
It takes me ages to get through these presentations because if you give the location I like to pause it and find it on Street View to compare the views then and now.
Ha yes I often do that too when putting these together, I have a few crash scenes in the 1950s and looked up their locations the other day
@@oldclassiccarUK It's especially satisfying if you can get the exact viewpoint!
hi there, love the austin gypsey,the roller beside it may well be an Avelling Barford, but if any one knows better,
Great photos and brings back many memories. I wondered if anyone has photos of inside the Adderley Park Birmingham commercial vehicle factory, mainly of the Morris Minor LCZv and Traveller production? Cannot seem to find any..
I don't think I have any amongst the BMC photos I've got here
Thumbs up mate.
Really surprised by the old Bond equippe. It piquet my curiosity so much I did a bit of googling on it, so thanks for that though I don't particularly remember them
Glad it was of interest
Surely it was an HB Viva turning right in Edinburgh?
I enjoy these videos as it brings back so many boyhood memories and some of my early adult memories (bangers that I have driven).
I have some recent photos of classics taken on the jubilee weekend at my local British Legion and a couple of interesting things spotted on holdays in Europe, if you are interested please let me know how to forward them. I can do it electronically or print out and post, whichever suits you best.
The "service facility" around 19:20 shouts "aircraft manufacturing", with its lack of central roof supports and huge height with double height offices at the sides. Could it have been Castle Bromwich too?
I've carted stuff up staircases just like those on BAe sites. Sheds like these were probably a standard design.
I did wonder about CB, it was one of a collection of BMC/Nuffield Group factory photos that I bought a few years ago. The next instalment in the series (ie Part 8) will have another couple of photos from the same set in it, one showing an exterior view of a BMC building with various cars parked outside, this one though looks like a normal building as opposed to a huge shed/hangar.
1960s.When petrol was around 4 an'a tanner a gallon!!
Great to see, but also notice no graffiti anywhere, and also no litter on the streets.
Was the anti freeze sticker Bluecol ?
Could well be, I have one of those on my 32 Morris but I think other manufacturers produced similar stickers/transfers
Bluecol is the name I remember. IIRC the sticker had a picture of a robin wearing a scarf.
Greetings All the way from Tasmania / Australia
Would anyone here know anything about the old 1950's Comma? ( Commer ) 2 Door Wagon, are they featured on this Series by any chance ?
I would post pictures of 2 that my father use to own during the mid60's but I don't think you can do that here
If anyone wants to point me to websites with more information, I would dearly love to go down memory lane to try to see why my Dad chose these particular vehicles back in the day.
Any information would be well appreciated, Thank You All
Commer lorries sold well in Australia I think, I've seen plenty of photos of them over the years. If you can email scans over it'd be interesting to see them, details on my main website: www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/contact.htm thanks
Stop the music it make me turn it off
When compared to American cars over the same period one thing stands out.
The small minded and bourgeoisie thinking of the UK which is in many ways and areas still going on. 😋
All countries' folk have their foibles...