Trader to Paris (Ford Thames Trader trucks) - 1958
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Shot in the style of a newsreel, this film documents the then unusual occurrence of a lorry delivering meat from Watford to a market in Paris. The lorry used is a Ford Thames Trader: the Dover to Calais ferry "Halladale" which was the first ferry owned by Townsend Ferries.
My uncle here in New Zealand had one of these in the early 1960s.I remember riding in it from paraparaumu to Wellington and helping him deliver furniture when I was about 7 or 8yrs old.All I really remember is it was very noisy and bumpy.In my 20s I traveled to the UK on my big OE and stayed for eight and a half years. in 1977 I started driving for a company called Brain Haulage. The head office and workshop was in Braintree in Essex and they had a small London depot in Canning Town .I drove for them for almost 4yrs starting in a Volvo F 88 and finally a Volvo F10.Drove allover England and then was put on continental runs. The roads in this video were so empty but it was 20yrs between this video and when I was driving them.Trucking in the UK and Europe was so different then compared to today. The border crossings could be a pain but there was no trouble with refugees as in Calais today. I like watching these videos as they bring back good memories at least the one's from the mid 1970s onwards and the older ones show how far the transport industry has come and the development of trucks.
A version of this film will be made around 2045 when trade is reestablished with the continent.
This episode in the 1950's occurred at a time when Britain was not in the EU: NOTE THE CUSTOMS FORMALITIES. Clearly, this film is appropriate for post -Brexit trade of the current times. Business as usual.
@@chrysostomgunaseelan3907This reply aged like milk.
Louis and Sid were driving like nutters on some of those stretches. Wonderful film.
As a teenager I worked for my uncle who had 6 butchers shops ,he had a Thames Trader to deliver to his shops.
Never seen a Thames Trader driven like a rally car before!!
I say Mr Cholmondeley-Warner, spirited driving od boy!
It did look a bit lop sided in France. Did they set the suspension to fit the camber?
When I was in primary school in the sixties, we had a soft spot for the old (new then) Trader. Ahh those were the Spangel-eating days!
You will have to explain to the youth what spangles were.Ha Ha
@@Golo1949 That's true. Spangles , hobo and bazooka.. Golden old days. Also I explained to them We're robbed 140 pence; it was 240 pence to the £ in those days.
My school dinner money for the week was ; Seven & Six = 035.5 pence these days. ( Smile)
@@earlwilliams73A77 1 shilling = 5p Sixpence =2 1/2p so Seven & Six is 37.5p
@@COIcultist Thanks for the correction... Now I'm short change my self by 00.02p.... It's nought to do with age.
Earl Williams 7/6 exactly up in Manchester where I came from. I used to take it to school in a little brown envelope and give it to my class teacher on arrival at school.
traders were great with 2 speed ceaton back axle . 65 on the old a 6 ,17 yhears old and loved it great trucks
El camión que sonríe.
Irrepetible.🙂♥️
I used to drive Thames Traders at the start of my driving career,they were a really great British motor.
Its good to see them again.
back in 1967, playing at the wheel of my next door neighbours Thames trader, c.w.s. Liverpool pretending I was a night driver as it went dark....!!!!
i used to drive a thames trader in the 1960`s it was never as clean as that one.Driving down the A1 near Doncaster I looked athe speedo and I was doing 70mph not bad no speed limitters in those days
My Dad had 2 x 6-wheeler and 4 x 4wheeler tipper trucks in the 60's and 70's. Hardy machines.
The Trader is 'insulated' (but not refrigerated?)
Lovely to see, the trader was brilliant at the time once you got the hang of climbing in and out of the cab. Thanks 👏👏👍
The Thames Trader Cab does really remind me of the Mercedes Unimog, great film...
A Thames Trader was the first commercial that I ever drove, for Mother’s Pride, on an ordinary driving license, but I passed my Commercial Class 2 in a Ford D series. 😜👍🏼.....no power steering then !
got a thames trader engine 590e vacuum air throttle for sale at bolsover
I worked on Traders as an apprentice. Not the nicest truck to service, especially trying to replace an injector pump. Bloody uncomfortable hanging in the doorway. I hope the Trader they took to Paris was a 6D otherwise they would have had sore ears by the time they got there. The 4D was only about 52hp. Little sound or heat insulation and if they were lucky; it might have had a heater too!!
My dad had two traders from new when he was driving for Crosfields hauling animal feeds then they gave him a new D800 in 66 and then he had 3 D 1000s one in 69 one in 71 one in 72 his last new wagon was Volvo F 7 bulk tipper in 85 he died in 2001 when he was 76 .
What....no headlight deflectors for driving in France!
Your right. I have a set of these, looking at them now, a 7inch yellow lucas with three metal clips affixed with elastic, with the words "converter unit" upon, purchased by my father for a trip through France in 1965, used several times on a few different vehicles until 1987, different headlight types after then so a bit of insulation tape cut to shape did the job.
My grandfather bought 3 Traders new in about 1960 - 2 tippers and a flatbed. One of the tippers got caught in the tide at Marazion I think but the other 2 lasted years
Babamın ilk. Arabası . Fordun. Babası Thames trader yol ver birader 63 model
Driving through those little French villages wouldn’t mind doing that
History. A wonderful video shot long ago. I have the same vehicle running in Uganda. Iam going to send a fresher movie on this site
All that faffing around at customs just to send some meat to Paris. Dead easy now due to the EU and France finally stopping their block on British beef. I think they had it easier in those days in that driving a van to Paris was considered a cutting edge idea.
Brexit.
I'm just surprised the ports weren't blockaded at the prospect at all that British beef entering their country. And at 4:03 it looks like he's drifting that Trader!
It did didn't it .
My first lorry was a Thames Trader............1967.
I'm guessing they had to stop and retrieve the seat covers from their arse after the 4 min mark 😀
A wonderful reminder of how it was, no Sat-navs, Trackers, or even a mobile phone. How did we survive ? (very well thank you !)
London to Paris in under 24 hr - those were the days - the windscreen wipers on a Trader were quicker than the engine, old Ford Lorry driver motto “wouldn’t pull a greasy man out of bed”
The grille resembles the 1953 USA Ford trucks. Were these cab-over-engine trucks? The short hood (bonnet) resembles what we call in the USA a "snub-nose" in that the entire drivers cab is hinged at the front and opens by releasing a rear latch that allowed full access to the engine compartment. It was a breeze to work on those in the USA. In the USA the F-600 with an OHV V-8 was the most-popular size for medium-light heavy hauling. Was the British 6D the approximate equivalent?
I'd say that most cars and trucks in the 60's, made in Britain, whether Ford, or Vauxhall/Bedford (General Motors), tried to copy their American counterparts.
ok, a truck can be powerful, cheap in fuel consumption & maintenance, high payload, not a design masterpiece like a GT car, but there some difference between "adequate design" and "ugly & awkward design".
Home pried bakery 1970
Transport ford d series
good old days
FORD TRADER at its finest i remember trying to get around in spitalfields covent garden etc with no power steering lol
The way that old truck was being driven no way was it hauling hanging bear or anything at that matter
And with brexit theres all the customs and passport checks again, takes forever at Dover and Calais again.thanks brexiteers.
My uncle here in New Zealand had one of these in the early 1960s.I remember riding in it from paraparaumu to Wellington and helping him deliver furniture when I was about 7 or 8yrs old.All I really remember is it was very noisy and bumpy.In my 20s I traveled to the UK on my big OE and stayed for eight and a half years. in 1977 I started driving for a company called Brain Haulage. The head office and workshop was in Braintree in Essex and they had a small London depot in Canning Town .I drove for them for almost 4yrs starting in a Volvo F 88 and finally a Volvo F10.Drove allover England and then was put on continental runs. The roads in this video were so empty but it was 20yrs between this video and when I was driving them.Trucking in the UK and Europe was so different then compared to today. The border crossings could be a pain but there was no trouble with refugees as in Calais today. I like watching these videos as they bring back good memories at least the one's from the mid 1970s onwards and the older ones show how far the transport industry has come and the development of trucks.
Couldnt happen nowadays......Europe is doing fine without us.....
Used to drive one in the 1960s but did not like the gear lever where it was situated. But then that's life.
LOL it looks like it's almost drifting at 6:42 hahaha
Adamın Yarısı Hep Dışarda, Hapı hiç Kapanmaz. Ama O bir klasik.
My uncle here in New Zealand had one of these in the early 1960s.I remember riding in it from paraparaumu to Wellington and helping him deliver furniture when I was about 7 or 8yrs old.All I really remember is it was very noisy and bumpy.In my 20s I traveled to the UK on my big OE and stayed for eight and a half years. in 1977 I started driving for a company called Brain Haulage. The head office and workshop was in Braintree in Essex and they had a small London depot in Canning Town .I drove for them for almost 4yrs starting in a Volvo F 88 and finally a Volvo F10.Drove allover England and then was put on continental runs. The roads in this video were so empty but it was 20yrs between this video and when I was driving them.Trucking in the UK and Europe was so different then compared to today. The border crossings could be a pain but there was no trouble with refugees as in Calais today. I like watching these videos as they bring back good memories at least the one's from the mid 1970s onwards and the older ones show how far the transport industry has come and the development of trucks.
My dad was a transport contractor, and he was a Ford man through and through. he had 17 traders, both the bull nose ( like the one in this video ) and the bonneted. He also had one of the very first D series, it has a Perkins V8, with a chrome bumper.
I learned to drive in a Trader.
Some of that driving looked a bit dodgy.
Oh hell Louie and Sid you got a load of swinging beef on how bout slowly on the corners
Not the best load to carry.
It takes two to drive a 12 ton truck only in Britain
They made a good topper truck to.
Thames Trader to France??..very brave!
babamın ilk arabası damperli thames
I love this truck 😅
Truk yang pernah merajai jalanan Indonesia sebelum Mercy L Series Bagong dan Mitsubishi Fuso Goprak.
Good old memories ty
Being a. X. Trucker of that time that particular wagon Thames trader was one of the worst wagons on the road, none of the drivers I knew like those wagons big clumsy things.
Bahas juga dong truk GORKHA TAHUN +/-- 1944-1948
Ah...so this is Brexit.
Amusingly edited to give prominence to the Ford vehicles leaving the ship and stop anyone getting a good look at the Morrises!
You can't beat a bit of bully............here's what you could of won!
This trucks were very popular in my country El Salvador..
Loved these fords I was a van lad 1969 railway NCL traders watson st Manchester. JohnRooney
When I was 9years old I would go to work with my dad and go for rides with the drivers in their Thames traders owned by f Bowles and sons sand and gravel in Cardiff I am now 68 years young
That grille was definitely FORD looking
Damn starting to feel old
I worked at a ford dealers when the new d, series took over from the trader, blimey where’s the time gone?
my dad had two of these when I was a kid a single wheeler and twin wheeler which he bought of of fosse joinery freeman road nth hykeham Lincoln England
Very pleasing to view.. Had many miles of ride in old fords
No biggie. Hey, it was 1958 after all. You had to be there. The '50s were great here in the USA.
MY CATS PREFER PLAIN CRISPS TO FLAVOURED ONES
Obviously not many driven one lol
Ah the Free Trade area of Europe!
I would love to drive that truck to paris.
Top lorry from mauritius
how british !
Les Halles
4:51 On n'est dites pas le s ... The S is silent.
(both of them) !
+YouAreSpotOnWithThat Quite right! I would have pointed that out if you hadn't. It's a common (if understandable) mistake.
There was life before the EU 👍
Yes just hard, inconvenient and bags of paperwork.