1954 REDEX Trials

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  • @gardenamateur
    @gardenamateur ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Lots of fabulous footage. As a Peugeot fan I loved seeing the two Cinesound News vans in action. They did the first Redex (in 53) as well. This film is a wonderful social document of the era. Great to see it here on TH-cam.

  • @Jesusexplains
    @Jesusexplains 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I’m 74 now (2004) but knew Jack Murray and Ken Tudman of Maitland. Thank you for this nostalgic footage…

    • @bobbushie4603
      @bobbushie4603 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      also the birthplace of speedway

  • @paulellis4660
    @paulellis4660 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Was about 7 and remember watching the Redex Trial cars passing what is now Chadstone Shopping Centre one evening along Dandenong Road as they came into Melbourne.

    • @clayauslewis4236
      @clayauslewis4236 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What a great memory! I was seven also, but never got to witness the event live. But still got caught up with the massive hype. Being before the introduction of television, we got our news from the radio, the press, newsreels and word of mouth. And what an incredible event! Different times.

  • @yolandalindsay8368
    @yolandalindsay8368 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Five years before I was born. The Morris Minor would
    come to be the first car i got my chance to
    Drive way back in '76, B'dos, W.I.
    Well documented piece of Entertaining History. Congratulations.!.

  • @robynwright8298
    @robynwright8298 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Gorgeous !!!!

  • @jimeditorial
    @jimeditorial ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Fragile, underpowered cars, no modifications....an impressive achievement just to finish

    • @hisheroship
      @hisheroship 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I’m not sure that they were fragile.

    • @trackdusty
      @trackdusty 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hisheroship No. They weren't. And simple to repair, simple parts and...REDEX Upper Cylinder Lubricant to boot! Hahaha.

    • @Aussiehomestead1965
      @Aussiehomestead1965 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fragile?
      They were built like tanks 😂

    • @jimeditorial
      @jimeditorial 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Aussiehomestead1965 look at the suspensions, bearings and brakes...

  • @tonylittle3508
    @tonylittle3508 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Amazed that so many survived that.

  • @davidholder3207
    @davidholder3207 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Dynamite Jack Murray. When I was younger and a member of Melton Motor Sports Club in late '70/early 80's there was a story going about that in one Redex Trial a rival of Jacks found him beside his upside down car off the road.
    When asked what happened Jack is said to have replied - "Just adjusting the brakes mate".

  • @dieseldavetrains8988
    @dieseldavetrains8988 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    We need something like that again in Australia like the annual Dakar Rally, Melbourne to Port Augusta (via Wilcannia, Menindee and Broken Hill), up to Darwin via Coober Pedy and Alice Springs and across to Western Australia with the finish line in Perth WA, or maybe Albany?, and like the Dakar have all categories from bikes to trucks. Gelignite Jack, Jack Brabham, Jack Davey (famous radio announcer) what legends, back then it was tough men in tough cars. A lot of those outback roads are little changed today. Just loved that witty commentary, great video, much enjoyed!😉

    • @trackdusty
      @trackdusty 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Suggest the Torrens Track. One of the worst long roads in the country. Only cars and they must be 'stock'.

  • @MrSkeptik-z5r
    @MrSkeptik-z5r 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The 1950s music and excitable narrative is hilarious, repleat with Lucas, the prince of darkness as we knew it Teriffic footage from two years before I was born, what a trial!

  • @olspanner
    @olspanner 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Ex. Holden but avid owner of Peugeot 203, Holden never stood a chance against one of THE BEST Engineered vehicles ever!!!!!

    • @RebeccaGriffin-b8n
      @RebeccaGriffin-b8n 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      A friend of the family installed a hotted up holden 179 motor and 4sp gearbox into a Peugeot 203, needless to say that was quite quick.

  • @ianjolley7457
    @ianjolley7457 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    My dad the mechanic Gordon Jolley along with Harry Everet. navigator and Dave Doherty driver were in Ford Zephr car number 8.

  • @robinobrien3099
    @robinobrien3099 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great footage of the old days .I liked the meeting of the drivers at 13:10 to have a break & enjoy a beer. Would be a no no these days, plod would be around the next corner.

    • @trackdusty
      @trackdusty 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes. And what about the routine, risque remarks about the good sorts! Hahaha...

  • @Bomaderry
    @Bomaderry 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Sydney Show Ground in 1954 was at More Park and is now used to make movies
    The Sydney Show was moved in the 1990's
    SHlT, I'm getting old fast. This was 8 years before I was born.

  • @lesklower7281
    @lesklower7281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    1954 the year l was born and every car l reconised all of them

  • @IntrospectorGeneral
    @IntrospectorGeneral 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Australia's population in 1954 was 9,000,000 which is about one third of its 2024 population of 26,700,000. Infrastructure outside of the major coastal cities was minimal and the Pilbara region in Western Australia which is shown here would have been in the general vicinity of the a***end of the universe. Round Australia trials under different names ran occasionally to 1998 but the Redex Reliabilty Trials in 1954 and 1955 were the one that caught public interest.

  • @intricacy9490
    @intricacy9490 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    2WD...old technology...incredibly challenging roads and conditions...unfamiliarity of what to expect...a pioneering experience. This is all so much more entertaining and satisfying than the current assortment of 4WD programmes. To be with one of those teams would be a remarkable experience.
    But .. what's this...at 35.17...a non-Australian chameleon??? Did they not turn left at Albuquerque and wind up in Africa?

  • @jacktattis
    @jacktattis 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yes they came through Tenterfield on one of the trials wonderful to see.

  • @engineerutube1
    @engineerutube1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Why aren't these held today??

  • @stephenvelden295
    @stephenvelden295 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Can't do this in an EV!

  • @yasi4877
    @yasi4877 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not much snow in the Alps in July 1954. Well well?

  • @andrewarmstrong7254
    @andrewarmstrong7254 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    4:02 Wonder what happened to that bloke?

    • @terryirvine7090
      @terryirvine7090 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He didn't achieve too much ! 😊

    • @morris2450
      @morris2450 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Seen one his boy's creations recently...the BT62...not a bad lil hot rod

    • @clayauslewis4236
      @clayauslewis4236 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well spotted!

  • @uwusmolbean
    @uwusmolbean 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would like to buy one now 👌 😊

  • @neilforbes416
    @neilforbes416 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    They're *NOT* "FX" Holdens, they are *48-215* Holdens! The *FIRST* Holdens to have the 2-letter designation was the *FJ,* followed by the *FE,* Then the *FC* then finally the *FB* as far as the "F's" went, Then came the "E's" then "H's". The last two-letter designations were the 'V's" of which my car, the VE-Commodore Series 2 Sportswagon is part.

    • @olspanner
      @olspanner 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Absolutely spot on.!!!!!

  • @SteveMagr
    @SteveMagr 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    5:17 Sydney Showground (start)

  • @ChrisStumer
    @ChrisStumer 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A pity manufactures did away with the opening vents in the front windows, air con even if it was available wasn't needed. Wonder how the icon of Australian roads the Ford Customlines fared?

  • @Bomaderry
    @Bomaderry 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just added this video to the wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Round_Australia_Trial

  • @romemancer7905
    @romemancer7905 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Dinkum Aussies forever !!!

  • @railtrolley
    @railtrolley 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Resilient people back then. Tackled those 'roads' in those cars, which nowadays they wouldn't risk in a fully accessorised 4WD.

  • @rickvaughan1071
    @rickvaughan1071 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    first 2nd hand car Holden FX !!

  • @kerrykelaher2607
    @kerrykelaher2607 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Gelignite jack murray !! 😅

  • @roderernst9990
    @roderernst9990 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    left motorcycles out?

  • @Richard_K1630
    @Richard_K1630 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool.

  • @MrRobster1234
    @MrRobster1234 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:09 That dog was almost up her arse.

    • @trackdusty
      @trackdusty 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You'd have got a 'clip in the ear' for saying out aloud that in those days.

  • @boneyboney3575
    @boneyboney3575 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Modern Mad Max will has nothing on this archive.

  • @Bellbuoy144
    @Bellbuoy144 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There is some rather inappropriate language about aboriginals in a few place. Some editing might be in order.

    • @garygray8226
      @garygray8226 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      oh you poor tender sweetheart... I'm sorry you had to hear such vile language! I hope you (and the aboriginals) are not scarred for the rest of your lives. Do try to move on and forget what was said 70 years ago.

    • @oldog2
      @oldog2 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I,m not offended, so why are you who by your picture appear to be white would be, or do you have nothing better to do than stir up shit that has nothing to do with you

    • @jimeditorial
      @jimeditorial 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Bellbuoy144 disagree. This is history and should be preserved for future generations. Sanitizing the past is always a bad idea

  • @chiefchook
    @chiefchook 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Put "pathe redex" in the search window to access the restored clips.