BL - The Quality Connection

[Cheggers]

So that's why BL cars had such a great reputation - A film so bad it's actually very entertaining.

 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/VTCfJKNE2hg"

[Cheggers]

If some bright spark knows how to embed video...

[cort16]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCfJKNE2hg&feature=youtu.be

[Tickman]

That film is brilliant.

[mercrocker]

They don't make 'em like that any more.   Corporate movies or cars of course, but most of all they don't make Frank Windsors any more.

Flippin' great that film.

 

You can imagine the cat calls and yells when that was being shown to the workforce.

 

I wish it was still then. 

[captain_70s]

Wendy causes more problems than she's worth, if BL had employed more ugly typists they'd still be around today.

[Felly Magic]

And Mr Grifiththtthththths from Grange Hill should have bought a Cortina

[Urko]

Putting that bloke out of on the buses in charge of lathes - what were they thinking?

[trigger]

God, that bit where the Allegro squashes that pram runs a cold shiver up my spine every time!

[Noel Tidybeard]

God, that bit where the Allegro squashes that pram runs a cold shiver up my spine every time!

 

i know that poor allegro!

[Urko]

The geezer driving it seems to be going at a fair lick. He seems to be wearing the same shoes as the bloke in the opening credits of The Sweeney - maybe it was him, moonlighting.

 

If you think about it, there's subtle subtext "don't complain about the shoddy quality of your Marina, or you'll be mown down by an out of control Allegro whilst waiting for the bus".

 

Also - didn't Agros of tbis age have dual circuit brakes?

[UmBongo]

There's a few well-kent faces in that film.

 

Frank 'Z-Cars' Windsor, the brother-in-law from On The Buses, Denzel from OFAH, Griffiths the janny with his shitey Marina (donkey in the boot), Madeline Smith   and Mr. Lucas from Are You Being Served?.

[Vince70]

I blame it all on Pete (19:25) one minute he's flogging suits at Grace brothers and the next he's moonlighting as a mechanic.

But I do feel sorry for poor old Jim (11:45) if Delboy doesn't get one over on him then Fred gives him a set of duff drawings.

[Richard]

Also - didn't Agros of tbis age have dual circuit brakes?

I can't watch the video just now to see what year it was, but dual circuit brakes weren't compulsory until about 1976 and I don't think BL fitted them until they had to.

[Captain Furious]

I'm sad that we don't all speak like the narrator in that film anymore

[Mr Bump]

Who knew that every out of work actor in the 70s worked at BL. Maybe if they had employed non actors they would still be around..

[carlo]

I thought Michael Robbins would turn up at some point, surprised he wasn't the shop steward.  OUT!

[Urko]

Having Inspector bleeding Poirot in the drawing office can't have been helping either.

 

The film has to be 76 at least unless they were faking the reg plates - the lorry is R reg and Frank's Princess is P so I reckon that Allagro should have been dual circuit.

[twosmoke300]

Wasn't David suchet (sp?) in that too

[twosmoke300]

Agh beaten to it

[beko1987]

Fuck me that ending was a bit grim! Ace film though, never seen it before

[Station]

Id watch telly all the time if they put these, and old Hotizon/QED/etc from the 80's on.

 

Wasn't the main actor the janitor from Grange Hill? I feel his pain and frustration as he realises his week old car is absolutely crap. The pushing down on each corner to find that horrible squeaking sound, and the general failing of every component on the car, ugh!

 

I wonder how many strikes this caused?

[chaseracer]

The film has to be 76 at least unless they were faking the reg plates - the lorry is R reg and Frank's Princess is P so I reckon that Allagro should have been dual circuit.

 

It had probably sat in a field near Longbridge since 1974...

[conkerman]

Mmmmm Madeleine Smith.

 

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[Felly Magic]

And having the bloke who used to run the cafe in Last of The Summer Wine signing off drawings, no wonder BL was fooked

[chaseracer]

I'm sad that we don't all speak like the narrator in that film anymore

 

That's two packs of Players No6 every day for forty years, son...

[robinmasters]

'The Quality Connection', funded and produced by the Datsun Automobile Manufacturing Corporation.

Wendy's chest has a lot to answer for. How are those poor blokes supposed to concentrate with those two wobbling around the office?

[beko1987]

I have to say, after watching that video last weekend I spent 3 days reading Keith Adam's 8 part rover/BL story, finding some Austin History website and basically reading all I could find on Leyland/Morris/BL/Rover/BMW/Pheonix/death... Even downloaded the old declassified thatcher documents in the Edwardes era, was fascinated!