These early 'fly on the wall' documentaries are fascinating and priceless. Set in the last years before the internet, the mass adoption of mobile phones, social media, reality TV and the mass bombardment of trivialized data, this series was a direct and rare survey of the lives of ordinary people. I do everything to guard against nostalgia but I sorely miss the era when time was time, distance was distance and, God help us, only famous people were famous.
I remember my dad in the 90s had various company motors. It reached full orgasm when he came home with a Vauxhall Carlton Diplomat with full leather and a 10 disc CD changer. He was playing company car Top Trumps with our neighbour who had a CD X! His orgasm was short lived when the neighbour came home with a Vauxhall Senator 3.0 a few weeks later. They genuinely fell out and my dad refused to return the neighbours borrowed drill bits for months. “He knows where I live, he can come and get them”. They avoided each other and washed their cars when the other was out and I think my mum was going to leave at one point as he was in such a mood. I then discovered ecstasy in the night clubs and cant remember anything else. The 90s were brilliant.
1970s Notting Hill Carnival | Notting Hill | Carnival | Darcus Howe | Thames Television | 1979 17.11.24 have i seen American psycho? dunno... all i know is i can't drive, have never owned a car and probably never will. the life of the status symbol hoggin dysfunctional are on the wane, i'm sure... this is Steve Coogan territory... the wind's in his hair. get out of his way, you squares.... that kindda thing. maybe a tally of the number of folk murdered by car drivers would be a sobering gesture as against the guys waxing lyrical about the virtues of the consumer conscious piggy(?) proof of their position in the company will be catching public transport, these days - as they heap a social conscious upon the shoulders of their peers - who are eager to get on. good luck to them. not my thing, though... far too taxing and tiresome.
Comments on ‘1994: SECRETS of the COMPANY CAR MEN | From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring | BBC Archive’ 17.11.24 1227pm the style which suggest one switch off from the hub-bub and bullshit of one's environment and the people therein?yeah.. i comprehend.
I remember as a child, my dad had a successful year so for the FIRST TIME EVER we had a foreign holiday (Costa Blanca) this was then followed up by his company rewarding his hard work with a new company car. A Ford Orion 1.6 Ghia. My god we felt privileged.
How I miss the days of the sales rep. A sierra (then a cavalier), fuel card , national conferences and overnight stays. I did it from 1990-2006. One of the best unofficial perks was meeting up at 3pm on a Friday afternoon at Corley services on the M6. Dozens of sales reps from all different companies were there swapping their free samples with other reps . I sold beer so a multipack of lager was always in demand ! Toiletries , clothing , electrical equipment , children’s toys, wallpapers , sporting equipment and even frozen prawns could be swapped! It also served as a sales rep recruiting ground if you fancied a change of job ! Sadly., online ordering , telephone based sales reps with Zoom meetings , vehicle trackers, ‘time and motion studies’ introduced by Sales Managers (so you had to document all of your working day) and compliance teams who you had to account for every ounce of stock you had with you put an end to all that. What a time to be alive though !! 😅
Yes I just got the back of it 95 till 08. Then I became an engineer. The mobile phone and WiFi killed it. Remember spending more time doing my mileage than actual paperwork lol!!!It was a great time, so much freedom, plus I got to see all over the UK. Having a letter I was a big deal, remember getting my 308 HDi, it was like a statement lol😂!!!Great times and memories.
1970s Notting Hill Carnival | Notting Hill | Carnival | Darcus Howe | Thames Television | 1979 1201pm 17.11.24 my father would never drive on the motorway... dunno why. it's not right.. it's not natural...might be the reason why.
@@stephenspence-d9q Comments on ‘1994: SECRETS of the COMPANY CAR MEN | From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring | BBC Archive’ 1342pm 17.11.24 why - did i say it was?
1970s Notting Hill Carnival | Notting Hill | Carnival | Darcus Howe | Thames Television | 1979 17.11.24 1203pm it's not a honda, it's a nissan primera... in his dreams it's a Chevrolet.
A favourite joke at the time … “driving down the M1, whatever speed you’re doing, sooner or later you’re gonna be overtaken by a Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6L with a suit jacket hanging up in the back and the radio on full belt”
I blame social media, and to some degree TH-cam (though suspect podcasts have had a bigger impact on people not using their brains to reason things out instead relying on some mouth-breathing carnivore from Florida).
For some reason I'm suddenly transported back to the slightly earlier age of Renault 25's "It's time to go it alone. I'm starting my own business... The company car's gonna to have go back" advert!
I remember seeing this when it was first broadcast, and I was struck by the horrible reality that these people actually exist and shared the roads with the rest of us.
I felt he was truely done dirty there. He clearly takes a lot of pride in his appearance and cars, to be done like that, and have his colleagues mock him for it
This obsession with i, L, CD, etc is exactly how I remember thinking about cars as a child of the 90s. Before the German premium brand craze took over. And now even they have cheapened in quality and image to become as run of the mill as the Escorts and Cavaliers of yesteryear.
8:15 using his electronic device/pager/phone at the wheel in the years before these actions were banned. 37:40 he cried because he got a diesel Maestro!!!!! Unbleilevable. I can not believe I first saw this in 1994.
I had hoped the BBC got the original 16 mm filmstock for this documentary. It is still better than the one who is on TH-cam for ages, but I think the film is probably a leg up from this! Thanks!
If you want to be a real stand out company car man you need to roll up in a Robin Reliant to the client to represent the company and the colour should be yellow.
Mmmmm - at one point I was driving a Maestro - I'm not saying that the company was sh1t or anything but ........ Also, I had forgotten how many cruddy attitudes there were about the perceived prestige of particular cars .... . Regardless, a maestro was the lowest of the low by any measure!!!
Ah yes, the ‘good old days’ of bombing along at 90mph unchecked-back when cars were death traps, roads were chaos, and fatalities were sky-high. Rules like speed limits (introduced in 1861) and cameras (since 1991) aren’t ‘nannying’; they keep morons like this guy from killing themselves or others. Fun fact: Eric Clapton lost his license in 1990 for speeding repeatedly-once at 111 mph because he was ‘rushing to a charity cricket match.’ Princess Anne? Also banned in 1990 for multiple offences in Gloucestershire. Spouting goldfish-brain nonsense. Please use your brain, or if you cant, don't embarrass yourself, I'm second-hand embarrassment from this nonsense. So calm it grandad.
1970s Notting Hill Carnival | Notting Hill | Carnival | Darcus Howe | Thames Television | 1979 17.11.24 1205pm anyone thought: i recognise that bit of background flitting past the car window as he chit chatted his way down the M62 or something..? past part of a journey looking vacantly out the window...
Comments on ‘1994: SECRETS of the COMPANY CAR MEN | From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring | BBC Archive’ 1230pm 17.11.24 ...assuming as we shouldn't... productivity must be wayyy over the estimates meted out prior to us all going' digital. the road movie rep is a thing of the past, i should think... all there is to do, now that Ai's making the boardroom paranoid, is to demand face-to-face meetings so you know your company is being shafted hand over fist by canny computer whizzkids... i am glad i haven't bought into the stress of this kindda schtick. though that doesn't legislate for having to deal with the stress heads who have...
Alan: There’s no point finishing the sentence Lynn because I’m not driving a Mini Metro. Lynn: But if you… Alan: Lynn, I’ll just speak over you. Go on, try and finish the sentence and see what I do. Go on! Alan: [Lynn attempts to finish her sentence and Alan speaks over her] I’m not driving a Mini Metro, I’m not driving a Mini Metro, I’m not driving a Mini Metro! Lynn: No, no it’s different. It’s called a Rover Metro now.
70% of all new cars are company cars and have been since the 1980s, must have been 90% of new cavaliers.. The fella in the base 200 mercedes with cloth seats thinking he's a top executive 😂
1970s Notting Hill Carnival | Notting Hill | Carnival | Darcus Howe | Thames Television | 1979 17.11.24 1207pm excellent stuff. really top notch. and i am enamoured of him as i he enjoys the little chef - as i used to do as a child.... it used to pass of proto-veggie sausages as the real thing.
I believe cows organise themselves in a similar way: there’s an acknowledged hierarchy dictating which one goes through the gate first, second, etc,….last. That poor guy with the maestro diesel is clearly the runt of the herd.
Am I watching a genuine documentary or a forerunner to Alan Partridge? This is tragic and hilarious at the same time - every time one of them throws a barely-disguised tantrum about not having a tiny badge on their car so they can show off their own sense of self-importance to everyone else (not that anyone else gives a monkey's anyway) I start thinking "GET A LIFE!" "People now really KNOW that I'm a manager, that I'm a senior person in the company!" Yes, but they also all think you're an absolute throbber.
Lord I feel for people with no choice but to do this work and follow this career path and only have a slightly above average environment to spend hours and hours in every day to provide some minimal comfort. Poor, poor people. Learn a trade ffs.
How pretentious and shallow, we look back with fondness mainly at simpler times but when you watch this you realise we've moved on for the better! That big bloke in the merc was the stereotypical working class wannabe middle class that sprung up around that time, instantly forgetting his roots and integrity. Sad.
@@shimmy1984yup. Social media acolytes seeking likes n subs etc. the clueless chasing the pointless. Sales reps were tame by comparison. Imho of course
5:28 "It's difficult for someone following you to know that you're driving a seedy Astra." ✗ It's all too obvious! Hard to believe anyone lusted after that appliance, even 30 years ago. Got my first company car in 1981. The guy who went for a Vauxhall (Cavalier SRi) was viewed with pity. Us cool kids went for a Golf GTI. Cracking car. Cracking number plate on mine too: GNH 640X.
994: SECRETS of the COMPANY CAR MEN | From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring | BBC Archive 17.11.24 1222pm never did get the number plate jibe. i did comprehend the NOH number plate and nodded when said number plate passed me. actors, the lot of 'em, i thought... i suppose you had to be there. this kindda presentation is social studies class fodder. most would be watching with interest others making snide comments about the lack of social mobility which would allow them to become what some have termed "toss posts"... of course those who deemed them "tosspots" are the guys who load the vans to shift the gear that the rep sells to his muckers round about the cuntry... as for the guy with his status and his Sheffield balls of steel...... i think i must have met his son...
Lord I feel for people with no choice but to do this work and follow this career path and only have a slightly above average environment to spend hours and hours in every day to provide some minimal comfort. Poor, poor people. Learn a trade ffs.
These early 'fly on the wall' documentaries are fascinating and priceless. Set in the last years before the internet, the mass adoption of mobile phones, social media, reality TV and the mass bombardment of trivialized data, this series was a direct and rare survey of the lives of ordinary people. I do everything to guard against nostalgia but I sorely miss the era when time was time, distance was distance and, God help us, only famous people were famous.
They are not fly on the wall, they are all staged.
I remember my dad in the 90s had various company motors. It reached full orgasm when he came home with a Vauxhall Carlton Diplomat with full leather and a 10 disc CD changer. He was playing company car Top Trumps with our neighbour who had a CD X! His orgasm was short lived when the neighbour came home with a Vauxhall Senator 3.0 a few weeks later. They genuinely fell out and my dad refused to return the neighbours borrowed drill bits for months. “He knows where I live, he can come and get them”. They avoided each other and washed their cars when the other was out and I think my mum was going to leave at one point as he was in such a mood. I then discovered ecstasy in the night clubs and cant remember anything else. The 90s were brilliant.
😂
That guy in the maestro 🤣OMG I actually feel sorry for him but couldn't stop laughing.
This is one of the greatest documentaries ever ! I remember when it came out, it’s all we talked about the next day at work !.
Agreed. Most people commenting here are missing the whole point.
All the interviews have the same energy American Psycho had when discussing business cards
1970s Notting Hill Carnival | Notting Hill | Carnival | Darcus Howe | Thames Television | 1979 17.11.24 have i seen American psycho? dunno... all i know is i can't drive, have never owned a car and probably never will. the life of the status symbol hoggin dysfunctional are on the wane, i'm sure... this is Steve Coogan territory... the wind's in his hair. get out of his way, you squares.... that kindda thing. maybe a tally of the number of folk murdered by car drivers would be a sobering gesture as against the guys waxing lyrical about the virtues of the consumer conscious piggy(?) proof of their position in the company will be catching public transport, these days - as they heap a social conscious upon the shoulders of their peers - who are eager to get on. good luck to them. not my thing, though... far too taxing and tiresome.
I like that style…
Comments on ‘1994: SECRETS of the COMPANY CAR MEN | From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring | BBC Archive’ 17.11.24 1227pm the style which suggest one switch off from the hub-bub and bullshit of one's environment and the people therein?yeah.. i comprehend.
Cavalier ? You mean
Is this the prequel to The Office? Dozens of David Brents driving around 😂😂
It must have been conscious or unconscious inspiration for it.
Still trying to convince myself this isn't a spoof documentary 😅
It's very tongue in cheek.
Nope was part of a series, the other one that spring to mind is about the staff at a London Underground Station...
The spec was very much a measure of the man’s success! What an era!
I remember as a child, my dad had a successful year so for the FIRST TIME EVER we had a foreign holiday (Costa Blanca) this was then followed up by his company rewarding his hard work with a new company car. A Ford Orion 1.6 Ghia. My god we felt privileged.
How I miss the days of the sales rep. A sierra (then a cavalier), fuel card , national conferences and overnight stays. I did it from 1990-2006.
One of the best unofficial perks was meeting up at 3pm on a Friday afternoon at Corley services on the M6. Dozens of sales reps from all different companies were there swapping their free samples with other reps . I sold beer so a multipack of lager was always in demand ! Toiletries , clothing , electrical equipment , children’s toys, wallpapers , sporting equipment and even frozen prawns could be swapped! It also served as a sales rep recruiting ground if you fancied a change of job !
Sadly., online ordering , telephone based sales reps with Zoom meetings , vehicle trackers, ‘time and motion studies’ introduced by Sales Managers (so you had to document all of your working day) and compliance teams who you had to account for every ounce of stock you had with you put an end to all that. What a time to be alive though !! 😅
Yes I just got the back of it 95 till 08. Then I became an engineer. The mobile phone and WiFi killed it. Remember spending more time doing my mileage than actual paperwork lol!!!It was a great time, so much freedom, plus I got to see all over the UK. Having a letter I was a big deal, remember getting my 308 HDi, it was like a statement lol😂!!!Great times and memories.
1970s Notting Hill Carnival | Notting Hill | Carnival | Darcus Howe | Thames Television | 1979 1201pm 17.11.24 my father would never drive on the motorway... dunno why. it's not right.. it's not natural...might be the reason why.
@@JJONNYREPP What has the Notting Hill Carnival got to do with this film?
@@stephenspence-d9q Comments on ‘1994: SECRETS of the COMPANY CAR MEN | From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring | BBC Archive’ 1342pm 17.11.24 why - did i say it was?
Amazed you didn’t off yourself.
Yeah, 94 was thirty years ago, but at the same time, it doesn't feel that long ago to me, either. Strange.
I agree, I passed my class 1 hgv that year and it seems a few years back.
@@user-zh9ye7or8m so basically you're both old.
This pre-internet and pre- mobile phone film feels very historic to me.
@ I remember it the first time around I remember laughing at the bloke with the maestro
What a gem. It's kind of endearing despite the pretentiousness and shallowness of it all.
1970s Notting Hill Carnival | Notting Hill | Carnival | Darcus Howe | Thames Television | 1979 17.11.24 1203pm it's not a honda, it's a nissan primera... in his dreams it's a Chevrolet.
A favourite joke at the time … “driving down the M1, whatever speed you’re doing, sooner or later you’re gonna be overtaken by a Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6L with a suit jacket hanging up in the back and the radio on full belt”
Brilliant. Refusing to let a comparable or lesser model overtake you. Lunatics.
We were such a high trust society without the gripes we have today.
I blame social media, and to some degree TH-cam (though suspect podcasts have had a bigger impact on people not using their brains to reason things out instead relying on some mouth-breathing carnivore from Florida).
@@memofromessex I blame greedy politicians and immigration.
Loved a to b - taped them all 😂
It’s clear this doc is in fact more about the mid-90s corporate ego than it is cars
@1:26… driving at 90mph
@3:24… 90p toll fee
The good ol days!
And he gets overtaken by a Citron doing atleast a ton.
not to mention 64p a litre...
For some reason I'm suddenly transported back to the slightly earlier age of Renault 25's "It's time to go it alone. I'm starting my own business... The company car's gonna to have go back" advert!
Look how few cars there were on the road.... 😭😭😭😭
Mass deportations needed . . . .
Remember: You are the traffic and you are at blame for it.
Most of these drivers drive during the workday. So there is less traffic then say during rush hour
They are actors, reading transcripts from real company reps, which is why it is delivered so well, no errors in speech delivery
You spoiled the illusion.
@fredo1070 oh sorry 😉
Are they? How do you know?
This was incredible.
Was and is.
My dad had a Cav GL 2.0i I learned to drive in it, went so fast and a really comfy drive
21:00 the guys talking about their coat hangers, Alan Partridge eat your heart out
Such David Brent vibes
"Leather gear knob" Not a touchscreen in sight😅
These guys were pretentious, remember them well 😂
It's the whole world now 🤓
I remember seeing this when it was first broadcast, and I was struck by the horrible reality that these people actually exist and shared the roads with the rest of us.
39:30 Sunglasses is an absolute legend
I felt he was truely done dirty there. He clearly takes a lot of pride in his appearance and cars, to be done like that, and have his colleagues mock him for it
Curious to see what these guys are doing 30 years on 😄
Still stuck on the M4.
@@mrlotusmiclol😂
@@mrlotusmic 😂
Almost certainly driving much shittier cars now.
14:06 that guy 😂 i didnt want them to think my job was a temporary appointment 😂
Great to watch
I was a young corporate w⚓ in the early 90's ... I quit in my 30's. I'm an old hippy now, don't even have a car.
Days of filafax
This obsession with i, L, CD, etc is exactly how I remember thinking about cars as a child of the 90s. Before the German premium brand craze took over. And now even they have cheapened in quality and image to become as run of the mill as the Escorts and Cavaliers of yesteryear.
8:15 using his electronic device/pager/phone at the wheel in the years before these actions were banned. 37:40 he cried because
he got a diesel Maestro!!!!! Unbleilevable.
I can not believe I first saw this in 1994.
inane shallow
lamebrained men and what they think is important in cars
The fact this is basically a joke, tells you so much about what is important in life.
I had hoped the BBC got the original 16 mm filmstock for this documentary. It is still better than the one who is on TH-cam for ages, but I think the film is probably a leg up from this!
Thanks!
It's the BBC, they're not going to rescan a 16mm negative for a free TH-cam video when they've already got a half decent master they can use.
@@newsbender You're right, but I might dream! I do think the cinematic qualities of this documentary is something to see.
@ I fully agree 🙂
Gareth Cheeseman, software salesman 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Christ the coat hanger considerations are depressing…
If you want to be a real stand out company car man you need to roll up in a Robin Reliant to the client to represent the company and the colour should be yellow.
24:33 you won’t see that sight ever again
Mmmmm - at one point I was driving a Maestro - I'm not saying that the company was sh1t or anything but ........ Also, I had forgotten how many cruddy attitudes there were about the perceived prestige of particular cars .... . Regardless, a maestro was the lowest of the low by any measure!!!
That's why Little Chef failed. The fall of the company car
Driving at 90 without the nanny state jumping on you. The nostalgia makes you wanna weep
Ah yes, the ‘good old days’ of bombing along at 90mph unchecked-back when cars were death traps, roads were chaos, and fatalities were sky-high. Rules like speed limits (introduced in 1861) and cameras (since 1991) aren’t ‘nannying’; they keep morons like this guy from killing themselves or others.
Fun fact: Eric Clapton lost his license in 1990 for speeding repeatedly-once at 111 mph because he was ‘rushing to a charity cricket match.’ Princess Anne? Also banned in 1990 for multiple offences in Gloucestershire. Spouting goldfish-brain nonsense. Please use your brain, or if you cant, don't embarrass yourself, I'm second-hand embarrassment from this nonsense.
So calm it grandad.
I still do when I can *dodges nannies*
11:33 swear thats chiswell green little chef, my first 'proper' job at 16. was now a coffee place last time i passed it.
40:53 I bet he wishes he still had that Supra now…
This is from an era when the BBC was still good.
1970s Notting Hill Carnival | Notting Hill | Carnival | Darcus Howe | Thames Television | 1979 17.11.24 1205pm anyone thought: i recognise that bit of background flitting past the car window as he chit chatted his way down the M62 or something..? past part of a journey looking vacantly out the window...
I assume, that they had more money and more time.
Comments on ‘1994: SECRETS of the COMPANY CAR MEN | From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring | BBC Archive’ 1230pm 17.11.24 ...assuming as we shouldn't... productivity must be wayyy over the estimates meted out prior to us all going' digital. the road movie rep is a thing of the past, i should think... all there is to do, now that Ai's making the boardroom paranoid, is to demand face-to-face meetings so you know your company is being shafted hand over fist by canny computer whizzkids... i am glad i haven't bought into the stress of this kindda schtick. though that doesn't legislate for having to deal with the stress heads who have...
Wow, partridge missed a slot on this one. He would have been very informative!
In summary, Check your class club via company cars and coat hangers.
Saw the thumbnail & was convinced this was going to be a sketch from Chewing The Fat.
Reminded me of Alan Partridge, all of them.
Sales reps back in the day were good womanisers , the chat and sales banter was used for business and pleasure 😂
The i is still everywhere ;-)
It’s an ‘e’ these days. ❤
Also, pause at 15:29 - is that a Toyota Sera he goes past on the left? If so, that's a VERY rare spot in the UK!
How quaint a species humankind is.
One angry milk man 10:07
I wonder if the Brent Master General was repping for WH at the time that this was made.🤔
Anyone watching this who knows any of the drivers?
American Psycho vibes
Alan: There’s no point finishing the sentence Lynn because I’m not driving a Mini Metro.
Lynn: But if you…
Alan: Lynn, I’ll just speak over you. Go on, try and finish the sentence and see what I do. Go on!
Alan: [Lynn attempts to finish her sentence and Alan speaks over her] I’m not driving a Mini Metro, I’m not driving a Mini Metro, I’m not driving a Mini Metro!
Lynn: No, no it’s different. It’s called a Rover Metro now.
Are these real interviews or a spoof documentary. I really can’t tell. 🤣
This series predated the 'mockumentary' trend.
10:08 some things haven't changed road rage alive and well even back then
"They Live"
Pretentious? Moi?.......
70% of all new cars are company cars and have been since the 1980s, must have been 90% of new cavaliers.. The fella in the base 200 mercedes with cloth seats thinking he's a top executive 😂
What a bunch of tosspots.
1970s Notting Hill Carnival | Notting Hill | Carnival | Darcus Howe | Thames Television | 1979 17.11.24 1207pm excellent stuff. really top notch. and i am enamoured of him as i he enjoys the little chef - as i used to do as a child.... it used to pass of proto-veggie sausages as the real thing.
How small these cars were…
I believe cows organise themselves in a similar way: there’s an acknowledged hierarchy dictating which one goes through the gate first, second, etc,….last. That poor guy with the maestro diesel is clearly the runt of the herd.
What's happened to the Ford Mondao
I'm pretty sure this was filmed in late 1992 (hence the 'i's have it' Vauxhall Cavalier ad at the beginning) so the Mondeo hadn't been launched yet
190E with cloth seats. I wouldn't be flexing.
Snooty car a Nissan Datsun! I passed my driving test in one of those in the early 90s 😮
Isn't Nissan now what datsun was?
All these guys are forerunners of David Brent😂🤦
Anyone seen American Psycho?….
Pure Alan Partridge😅
Am I watching a genuine documentary or a forerunner to Alan Partridge? This is tragic and hilarious at the same time - every time one of them throws a barely-disguised tantrum about not having a tiny badge on their car so they can show off their own sense of self-importance to everyone else (not that anyone else gives a monkey's anyway) I start thinking "GET A LIFE!"
"People now really KNOW that I'm a manager, that I'm a senior person in the company!" Yes, but they also all think you're an absolute throbber.
Cringe is off the charts
'cringe' says the chap who owns pitbulls
Is this a comedy sketch Show? A lot less traffic back then
Deeply sad, and superficial, still if it made them happy.
The I means important 🤣Human beings are the most basic creatures when you think about it.
I’m embarrassed for them.
Lord I feel for people with no choice but to do this work and follow this career path and only have a slightly above average environment to spend hours and hours in every day to provide some minimal comfort. Poor, poor people. Learn a trade ffs.
Mondeo
Comic strip presents...3 men in a car.
How pretentious and shallow, we look back with fondness mainly at simpler times but when you watch this you realise we've moved on for the better! That big bloke in the merc was the stereotypical working class wannabe middle class that sprung up around that time, instantly forgetting his roots and integrity. Sad.
I can't decide if this satire or not?
The entire series has been posted 'unofficially' on TH-cam . Watching the whole thing may or may not answer your question.
Is this from a parallel universe?
Those accents 😆
a documentary about the most boring people to have ever lived on the planet
I seriously doubt it. That mantle is well and truly owned by the current gen Influencers
@@gaycha6589 current gen Influencers?
@@shimmy1984yup. Social media acolytes seeking likes n subs etc. the clueless chasing the pointless. Sales reps were tame by comparison. Imho of course
The first five minutes were extremely boring, so I noped out.
TV gold.
Paging while driving ......very dangerous ...bloke was a bit before his time
To be fair, he did occasionally look up to see whatever was in front of him.
Kept at least one forearm on the steering wheel while using the pager..!
5:28 "It's difficult for someone following you to know that you're driving a seedy Astra." ✗ It's all too obvious! Hard to believe anyone lusted after that appliance, even 30 years ago.
Got my first company car in 1981. The guy who went for a Vauxhall (Cavalier SRi) was viewed with pity. Us cool kids went for a Golf GTI. Cracking car. Cracking number plate on mine too: GNH 640X.
994: SECRETS of the COMPANY CAR MEN | From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring | BBC Archive 17.11.24 1222pm never did get the number plate jibe. i did comprehend the NOH number plate and nodded when said number plate passed me. actors, the lot of 'em, i thought... i suppose you had to be there. this kindda presentation is social studies class fodder. most would be watching with interest others making snide comments about the lack of social mobility which would allow them to become what some have termed "toss posts"... of course those who deemed them "tosspots" are the guys who load the vans to shift the gear that the rep sells to his muckers round about the cuntry... as for the guy with his status and his Sheffield balls of steel...... i think i must have met his son...
Lord I feel for people with no choice but to do this work and follow this career path and only have a slightly above average environment to spend hours and hours in every day to provide some minimal comfort. Poor, poor people. Learn a trade ffs.