Vin's Screen Grabs (Update 30/12/16) - Akenfield (Suffolk, 1974)

[Vin]

Quick Update

 

'What price safety?' is dated May 1965

 

Descriptive blurb says - What is being done to make cars and roads safer?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brake testing with an E-Type. Mash has already established that this still exists.

 

 

Motorbike with ABS attached

 

 

Testing different designs of tyre

 

 

Testing types of crash helmets

 

 

Seat belt design and testing

 

 

MIRA test track

 

 

 

 

[Father Ted]

 

Jeeez, its been 20 years since I last used Baulk & Beam traction with Thomas splints - the internal & external fixators have pretty much done for them now. Elderly wimmin? I bet they are all knackered neck of femurs.

I dont miss them.

With these pictures Vin you are spoiling us

[eddyramrod]

 

That's not a young Richard Stilgoe is it???????

[ProgRocker]

^ It certainly looks like him.

[Vin]

Another update.

 

This time venturing into mainland Europe. Germany, or West Germany to be precise.

 

'Eyes of the law' is dated March 1962.

 

Blurb says "a look at traffic control and motorways in Germany"

 

 

 

On into Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

Queueing up to be checked over for the equivalent of the MOT.

 

 

City centre traffic control

 

 

Catching speeders

 

 

More city traffic and a scooter accident

 

 

Radar speed traps

 

Radar van

 

Lying in wait

 

Got one!!

 

 

Kids eh

 

 

The end.

[barrett]

What can I say? Keep doin' what you're doin' brother. Nice to see a little Champion, Lloyd and Borgward Isabella coupe (just peeping into shot in front of the 404!) action here

[TagoraGL]

They look like they've just stepped off The Love Boat.

[Guest]

Quality stuff here - please keep them coming. Impressed with the picture quality too.

What an odd looking motorcycle And I thought the Ariel Leader was bad

[Albert Ross]

VERE ARE YOUR PAPERS???!!!

[DSdriver]

The German coppers in their scruffy white jackets manage to look like rather seedy barbers or waiters.

I think the model of BMW saloon (the green one) that was a police car was in my book of Eye-Spy cars about fifty years ago. I still haven't seen one on the road even today. Mind you I gave up hope of getting the points at least three years ago.

Another thing I noticed was the armco on the central reservation of the autobahn. How much longer did it take before they realised it's usefulness in the UK?

No wonder we won the war if they were using radar to catch speeding motorists whilst we were using it to spot their incoming planes.

Another great effort Vin, thanks for all the hard work.

[TagoraGL]

Anyone caught by the police radar was excused dental X-rays for the next three years.

 

[Father Ted]

Anyone caught by the police radar was excused dental X-rays for the next three years.

 

I was thinking that was Stasi VOSA collaring the barn door driver for running on cherry.

[michiel]

Wonderful stuff. Suicide doors, not very practical...

 

 

... but oh so cool. Only just noticed this BMW seems to have mass suicide doors!

[pompei]

Definitely Stilgoe - just what i thought when I saw him.

 

The white coated guys look like genuine boffins. Do such creatures still exist?

 

Great clips!

[Vin]

Quality stuff here - please keep them coming. Impressed with the picture quality too.

What an odd looking motorcycle

 

It certainly is a funny looking thing isn't it. Wonder what it is

 

TBH, even though I watched the film and did the screen grabs, I never noticed it until you pointed it out...

[michiel]

I was getting pissed off that every BMW 501 in my 'archives' had normal front doors, until I found that

 

In den 50´er Jahren wurden zu Testzwecken sogar 2 BMW 501 Polizeiwagen ( "Isar 12" ) zusätzlich zu den hinteren ( hinten ) angeschlagenen Türen auch vorne mit solchen ausgerüstet. Angeblich konnten die Beamten so schneller aus dem Fahrzeug kommen um flüchtende Verbrecher zu verfolgen.

 

It's one of only 2 built!

[morris_ital_lover]

 

Ah bliss, take the signs for the city centre, follow them a couple of hundred meters and you'll get to the house I grew up in. A lovely house but a friggin awful place to live with exhaust fumes coming in through the windows whenever you opened them, fire engines keeping you up until ungodly o'clock and the fact that you couldn't normally park within 200 meters of the house (sometimes it'd take longer to get to the car then the journey itself).

 

Keep 'em coming!

[Spottedlaurel]

Cracking stuff Vin! The Bath and Norwich shots all of particular interest.

 

 

This one is very relevant to me, I spent some time surveying the tower block visible in the background only a couple of months ago. What’s visible as a smaller top-storey has now gone and is just four columns poking up in the air above the 10th floor. I didn’t realise there had previously been a structure up there, had been told it was planned for something that wasn’t built.

 

Buildings on this street otherwise little changed.

 

Fascinating to see cars crawling through narrow streets that are now very much for pedestrians only.

 

Regarding the BMW 501, is that what this one I saw at Medler’s was?

 

MedlersOld16 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

There was a couple of them in there as I recall.

[Vin]

It looks a lot like a 501, SL. I wonder if they officially sold them here or whether that one was a personal import.

 

 

Next Update.

 

'High, wide and faster' is dated November 1963.

 

This edition is a 17 minute film looking at the advances and improvements in road, rail, sea transport.

 

I've included snaps of the train-shite too as a number of you pervs seem to enjoy it

 

 

 

 

Scammell

 

Two shots of this, as I'm not sure what it is. German?

 

 

 

Mash has established this is a survivor. So that's the Jag from 'what price safety', the Citroen DS from 'Scooter Commuter' and this Ford

 

Barrett????

 

I've included this as you can see the rest of the billboard now - El Cid

 

 

S-type as a ballast wagon

 

 

Carlisle hump yard

 

Blue Pullman

 

Loading the 'Condor' - A through the night Anglo-Scottish container service.

Motive power is a 'Peak'

 

 

 

 

Carlisle hump shunt yard again. Although history has shown the hump shunt yards that were dotted around the country to be white elephants, they didn't half look impressive. I have the BTF film showing how Sheffield Tinsley worked - seemed to use ticker tape, pressure pads and two way radio. You could sort and divide the wagons to create a train in 8 minutes. Containers became the WINNAR though.

 

All the wagons single wagons are mobile - they've been sent over the hump.

 

 

This part of the film is the loading another regular Anglo-Scottish working - Bulk cement from Kent.

A Crompton up front

 

Liverpool docks

 

Southampton docks

 

 

End of Part 1.

 

More Motorways and bridge building in Part 2.

[ProgRocker]

Cracking stuff Vin! The Bath and Norwich shots all of particular interest.

 

 

This one is very relevant to me, I spent some time surveying the tower block visible in the background only a couple of months ago. What’s visible as a smaller top-storey has now gone and is just four columns poking up in the air above the 10th floor. I didn’t realise there had previously been a structure up there, had been told it was planned for something that wasn’t built.

 

Buildings on this street otherwise little changed.

 

Oh Wow - St. Stephens Street. That tower has been sold iirc with possible redevelopment in mind.

 

The old Pearl Assurance House (above the blue Transit) was taken down and rebuilt in 2006. It is now a New Look & Slaters store.

[barrett]

Two shots of this, as I'm not sure what it is. German?

 

Ja! DKW Junior/ F12

 

Barrett???

 

Fairthorpe Electron Minor!

[Vin]

High, wide and faster part 2

 

Motorway building

 

 

A 'Navvy' camp

 

 

Building a bridge on the heads of the valleys road in Wales

 

 

Motorways

 

 

The Forth Bridges

 

 

Building a tunnel somewhere under the Thames.

 

Cement mixer has a LAD cab

 

 

Blurry, but necessary to catch the rest of the Ferodo Brake Linings advert on the bridge

 

This is Oxford Circus. Building a temporary 'bridge' so they can work on the underground station below.

 

 

Finished and in use.

 

That twat Marples again

 

Apparently this is high speed bus travel.

 

 

LEGENDARY train-shite

 

 

An example of a two car family. They've got two cars you see. They've only got one across the road. And it's French.

 

 

Keef is gonna go into meltdown

 

 

Down on the docks

 

 

[Vin]

Two shots of this, as I'm not sure what it is. German?

 

Ja! DKW Junior/ F12

 

Barrett???

 

Fairthorpe Electron Minor!

 

Good work Barrett. Knew you'd know

[gricer]

 

This magnificent Leyland Atlantean is called a Gay Hostess. Stop sniggering at the back. They were operated on Lancashire-London express services and elsewehere by RIbble Motors and its two subsidiaries, Standerwick and (as here) Scout. Very luxurious, wih in-flight meals and air suspension.

 

Info about the only surviving example here:

 

http://www.rvpt.org/standerwick-25.htm

 

Current status:

 

[michiel]

This magnificent Leyland Atlantean is called a Gay Hostess. Stop sniggering at the back.

 

I'm sorry, I just can't... guess I should leave the room.

[eddyramrod]

 

Just looked for these two on DVLA, both came back "not found." The Vauxhall is exactly the same colours as the one I had at 18, that I keep showing you in b&w.

[andrew e]

 

Thats me in the background at work. Almost. A hi-tec NX (entry - exit, yeah I know!) panel, our is 50 years old in a couple of years time (the same time we close and move to a super box alas). They would have been creme-del-a- creme of signallers back then, on a fortune! Cheers Vin

[Shep Shepherd]

Quite amazing how much Farthing Corner/Medway Services has changed over the years, yet the stretch of the M2 on which it's located has stayed more or less the same

[Vin]

Another update, although a shorter one this time.

 

The reason it's short is because 'Where no tide flows', dated August 1963, is all about canals.

 

So as you would expect, with the emphasis being on barges, leisure cruisers and industry that was still then making use of them, there isn't much in the way of old shite to do screengrabs of.

 

 

This little thing is quite smart. Wouldn't want to go the length of the Grand Union on it though...

 

 

A few stills of a canal and rail bridge

 

 

A one eyed Thames Trader and 'Metal Box Company' wagon

 

 

An Austin FFK with looks like some kind of HIAB on the back

 

 

Now this next series of screengrabs are BRILL

 

This is how you combine caravan holidays and canal holidays into one hassle free experience. FUN for all the family. And the dog.

 

 

And they sail off into the sunset.

[DSdriver]

Is that a Hillman Minx convertible between the Veedub and the Mini in the last pic?

 

On an elf-an-safetee note, the wearing of buoyancy aids or life-jackets is recommended nowadays