Original Photos of British Cars 1950s - 1960s Part 13 | Black & White plus Colour
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- A 13th selection of amazing car photos from the 1950s and 1960s(ish) era make up today's upload. In it, a huge mix of black & white plus quite a few colour images of (now) classic cars, vans and lorries will be found, all taken at a time when these vehicles were common sights on (mostly) British roads.
There are some really interesting photos in here, including one or more ...
Ford 100E undergoing a roadside engine change
Singer Hunter including a line-up of Police-spec Hunters
Morris Minor saloon
Bedford CA
Triumph Mayflower
Austin A40 Devon
A cutaway Riley Elf used for instructional purposes
Ford Escort Mk1
Ford Anglia E494A
A selection of 1950s homebuilt specials
Riley One-Point-Five
Triumph Renown
Austin A40 Somerset
Morris Oxford MO
Morris 10 Series M
Ford Zephyr Mk3
Austin A55 Cambridge Mk1
MG 1100 saloon car
Jaguar Mk2
A crashed Foden being extracted from a river
Triumph Herald
Hillman Minx saloon
Austin A30
Austin A90 Westminster
... and many more old cars!
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Added: a couple of corrections, the car in the background at 6.32 is more likely an Allard, while the Hawk is of course a Minx.
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hi there. i can put my hand up for the engine change in 73, we did one in northolt west london when i was 22.easy job, just got stuck in to it, it had 3 speed g/box with crash on 1st.my friend used to hit reverse instead of second sometimes,what a noise. back then cars were easy to work on
Seeing the photo of the Maidstone Police cars made me think about my first employer back in 1970. He had been at school with the Rootes brothers in Cranbrook Kent, and remained friends with them all his life. Obviously he only ever drove a Rootes produced car, his last being a Hillman Minx.
HI, useless information time. I don't know if you know but Rootes took over the Singer Motor Company around June 1956. The Singer Hunter being the last car built by Singer.
Then came the Singer Gazelle by Rootes. The MK1 Gazelle had the 1500cc OHC engine from the Singer Hunter. Cheers 🍻
It takes me ages to get through these photos. I keep pausing to stare at them!
hi there,regarding the coach. i worked for AEC ltd. carefully looking at this vehicle it looks like one of our chassis.
Re the Mk1 Esky @ 6:10 , Capital Radio was launched in October 1973
Very good collection of photos there. I was pleased to see a few lorries and coaches even if some of them were a bit bent! Engine change on the street? Ah yes those were the days and the bonnet just casually laid on the lawn! Thanks to all who sent in photos and thanks Rick for putting them together. 👍👍
Hi Rick! Brilliant collection of photos. The Allard in the auto test photograph is blue & still taxed! Cheers. Leigh. Edit: Singer YEV128 is down as "not taxed for on road use". Very strange. Possibly in a museum? Also, the Morris 10 & A40/A50 photographs feature the same people!
It could be in a museum, or in a shed somewhere, perhaps more likely it was scrapped and DVLA simply not notified which was not uncommon
Carpet Slippers and the Kitchen Table, you can’t beat the old days, Another interesting production again love the old vehicles 👍🏻🇬🇧
Glad you enjoyed it
The Vauxhall L type is a Velox, if you look at the back seat you can see the centre armrest, also it has bumper overiders and the hubcaps have embossed rings and Vauxhall on them. Wyvern models did not have these. A very good but sadly very underrated car. I'm a bit biased as I have several of them. Love the photos. Neale.
Ahh I'll try and remember that, thanks for sharing the info
What an absolutely superb collection of photos RJ.
I well recall people putting heather on their car radiators or bonnet mascot back in the day. It was a non to subtle way of telling people you had been to Scotland or out in the countryside for a run.
Changing a car engine on the roadside, shirtless and wearing slippers, I think they are slippers the guy is wearing, is awesome.
Ha yes the engine swap photo is great isn't it, thanks for checking out this latest upload
Thanks Richard . I really must sort out my photo's for you ! Cheers !
Thanks for another superb compilation, Rick. Well done! As someone with a 'vested interest' (!) in this episode, I wish to point out that the number plates on the Bentleys (11:54 & 24:14) and Rolls-Royce (20:14) were not actual, 'street-legal' reg. nos. They were 'concocted' by Rolls-Royce/Bentley Ltd. solely for photographic/publicity/display purposes.
I remember back in the 70's changing a clutch in my Zephyr 6 with two wheels on the pavement and me and my buddy laying on our backs in the gutter trying to ferk the gearbox back in but it would go due to a piece of swarf but the worse part was our pain in the rear neighbor decided to wash his car just as we were pinned under the gearbox and laying in the gutter, some people just don't care.
Some people eh!!
Those were the days 😅
Great selection Rick, that shot of a Leyland Royal Tiger stuffed into a house 'oop north' reminded me of a Royal Tiger I used to go to school on back in the early sixties, it was an early fifties model with a 41 seat body by Heaver of Durrington, Wilts. and owned by Crown Tours of Frome. It was a very cool looking vehicle with a most satisfying growl from the exhaust. A few years ago I saw it in an article on FLICKR and read that a problem with it was occasional sudden brake failure. Happy Days!
I love these photo collections and your wonderfully informative commentary. All 13 are fantastic, looking forward to 14.😊
Glad you like them!
Thanks for posting Rick. I believe the car at 8.46 with the lady behind the the wheel is in fact a Mk series Minx rather than a Hawk. My late father had a brown 55....first of the OHV jobs. I agree with you about the VC10 being a favourite. It's in my top 3 for good looking civil jets along with the Comet and French Caravelle. Never seen a VC10 until I went to Duxford while visiting my daughter in London 4 years ago.
Yes indeed it is, I'll put my reading glasses on next time. There's a VC10 at Cosford museum that I go and wave at from time to time, in the 80s there used to be a BA-liveried example in (nearly) the same spot but that was chopped up years ago, although the fuselage lives on at Brooklands, minus tail and engines.
Love to see the old period photos.Takes me back to my childhood.❤
My favorite series. Please keep em coming👍👍
I'll do my best! Thanks for watching
Another very enjoyable watch, I remember my dad attaching a bit of Heather to the front of various cars whilst we were in the West Country on holiday, I’ve no idea why but it was clearly the done thing in the day!
Glad you enjoyed it
the inidentified little sporty car may be a Crosley
Ok thanks I'll look into that option
New South Wales registration check shows no record of BEU817 Austin or CYD439 Jaguar. 🙁
I do like your Original Photos of British Cars series and this set is no exception. The photos of families on outings in their cars remind me of better times. Loved the photos of the 100E Ford Prefect engine being taken out in the days when it was a common sight to see your regular man in the street tackling such jobs. Super shots of the lovely Triumph Renown - such a unusual, but classic and classy car. Back in the 1950's a Renown was regularly parked opposite my house and I always admired it!
My old dad would have a different car every week, always buying and swapping, I’ve seen him pull an engine from many an 100e by himself, also the Austin A90 Westminster was a car my mother had and loved for several years before changing for a Wolsley 6,110, after that she drove a Ford Thames 400e, she did love a van and had a few of them 😁
Could the auto test pics be from Silverstone? Tests seem to be very much like those on the Pomeroy Trophy which first ran in 1952.
lovely collection of cars, I remember them all. car of the list the Hillman Californian
Circa 1974/75, my dad had to demolition a row of garages at the King Edward School Witley near Godalming. But before doing so he had to drag out a Triumph Renown from one of them as the brakes had seized. Perhaps it once belonged to one of the school masters.
I often wonder if it survived, they were such lovely cars, the one shown in this video bought the memories flooding back.
As a singer fan I still titter at the Singer SM1500 and Hunter police cars. 😅 they were hardly built for speed. I think used as patrol cars like the Morris Minors were.
Maidstone Police sent me that pic in 1984. Another enjoyable video thank you.
Thanks for supporting the channel and providing many of the photos that have made it onto here :)
My friend and I helped my dad do an engine swap on a 1965 vauxhall 101 in 1975. No pics but all on cini film
Sounds like exciting footage to me!
At 6.32 isn't the sports car an Allard? Then again if it is a Lea Francis I would lose a bet.
Yes I think you're correct there
stop the background music it
Politeness costs nothing
Wasn't the Herald ' estate ' not called the Courier.
The courier was the van version
Wasn't that the van version?
The van was the Courier iirc
Brilliant collection of photos Rick. Some real beauties there, when cars were all individual, not like today when they all look the same !. Where do you get your registration details from as the GOV website only has details of cars still registered. I'd love to look up details of family owned vehicles of the past, but don't know where to look ? Thanks for compiling these videos, they are so interesting and provoke so many happy memories. Thanks and take care 🙂
There's a section on my main OCC site where you can look up the original registration locations ... www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/registrations/reg-letters.htm
Very interesting Rick, but is there a site where I can type in a registration number and it will tell me what car it was attached to - ie EWL 730@@oldclassiccarUK
@@michaeltreadwell777 Hi no there isn't, it just comes down to trying to id the car make/model based on what you can see in the photo
If the vehicle has not been notified to the DVLA as being scrapped or exported then it might still appear on their website, but as I have just said it may not exist. I have checked the registration given and that vehicle is scrapped. @@michaeltreadwell777
Hi Rick - a gap in the market for you to fill 🙂@@oldclassiccarUK