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

[Pillock]

"Sanka, you dead?

 

"Yeah mon"

[DSdriver]

You see something else each time you go through these, I've just clocked Willie Wanklyn on the back of one of the stock cars - made me snigger like a schoolboy.

Keep em coming Vin, we love 'em.

[Doctormop]

Wonderful stuff from the days of fair play, sportsmanship and trusting British engineering to see you through!!

[Ghosty]

I thought that said 'competing in a Cortina'.

 

I was disappointed.

[MrBiscuits]

You see something else each time you go through these, I've just clocked Willie Wanklyn on the back of one of the stock cars - made me snigger like a schoolboy.

Keep em coming Vin, we love 'em.

Looks like old Willie chopped up an oval window beetle to build his rod

[sheffcortinacentre]

they did take a mk1 Cortina down the bobsleigh run there as a publicity stunt.

[chaseracer]

Wonderful stuff from the days of fair play, sportsmanship and trusting British engineering to see you through!!

 

Unless you were expecting your FG to stay upright... 

[trigger]

That poor old FG, I wouldn't have liked to been in that when it crashed.

[Vin]

Here is another 'Look at Life'...

 

'Racing to the Start' is a film all about the manufacture of race cars looking at one man bands and the likes of Piper and Lotus. It features the 1967 Racing Car Show at Olympia so it dates it to that year...

 

 

This chap is called Brian Hampshire. At the time of the film he'd spent 6 months and £1700 building his own formula 4 car called the 'Briham' with the intention of going into production. His workshop was his mum's spare room...

 

 

[Vin]

Racing to the start pt 2

 

This bit is about Piper...

 

 

This is Bob Gayler, apparently he was the technical whizz...

 

This is the designer Tony Hilder...

 

The chap in the hat is George Henrotte, who established Piper...

 

[Vin]

Racing to the start part 3

 

The next chunk of screenshots are all from the Lotus offices and factory...

 

[Vin]

Racing to the start pt 4

 

Shots from the 1967 Racing car show

 

 

This is Brian Hampshire again with his partially completed car...

 

[Vin]

Racing to the start pt 5

 

These shots are about testing and also a meeting at Brands Hatch...

 

 

This chap testing a Piper at Brands is called Sid Fox...

[Vin]

HOLY FRED RESSURECSHUN!!

 

 

A while since I've added to this...used to do it every week at one point... :shock:

 

Anyway, somewhere back in the pages of this thread I did screen grabs for a BTF film called 'Give your car a holiday'...

 

Well, somebody has uploaded it to youtube, so I thought I would tag it on to here...

 

Enjoy...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WUwdSyl-QI

[Jon]

Excellent stuff Vin, so have a bump from me, as I'm sure uploading all these images wouldn't have been a 5 minute task. I know the glorious tecnhicolor of the film stock has a lot to answer for in terms of wistfullness for how things were done back in the day (along with a lot of grey drudgery also, it must be said) but things really were a simpler, more uncluttered time back then, it seems. For instance, ask yourself which Brands Hatch sign you'd prefer to see:

 

 

Simple, stylised lettering from the less-is-more school of thought.

 

 

 

 

 

Branded nondescript logo which ties in with all the other tracks run by the same company, as words on their own are pretty boring. Bah Humbug.

[Vin]

I was watching a film last night that I got for Christmas and I thought as there was quite abit of 'shite' in it, it was worth giving this thread it's occasional resurrection (is that an oxymoron???...) Whatever. The film is called 'Akenfield' and was made in 1974 and based on the book by Ronald Blythe. It is the history of a Suffolk village through 3 generations of the farm labouring Rouse family...

 

Here is the original trailer for the film...

 

 

And here are the screen grabs I thought might be of interest...

 

Milk Transit

 

Early Maxi

 

 

Escort Van

 

Renault 12 and Transit bus

 

Just the Transit

 

 

Sheep dippin...

 

'Bright' fashions...

 

Escort van again...

 

Funeral cortege...

 

P6

 

Bedford Mobile library

 

Men at work...

 

I didn't spot this when I watched it, it was only when doing these grabs that I noticed it and thought it worth a screenshot...A woman cleaning a gravestone with OMO...

 

Wide load...new Massey Ferguson combine harvester complete with sideburns...

 

And finally an old Minor complete with wheelbarrow...

 

The film is excellent, although sometimes you need the subtitles when those Suffolk old boys are talking...

 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

V good film, and even more now a bit of a social history document.

[11001010]

Interestingly, XAU 1 is still on a Mercedes hearse, albeit a 2008 model.

[Spottedlaurel]

Excellent stuff! I suspect I'd find a lot to like in that, with all those locally-registered vehicles and it being the era I grew up in living in rural Suffolk. The cottages look like how I remember them back then.

 

Ronald Blythe is the cause of what I believe to be my one and only TV appearance. In 1983 he came to talk to my English class about the book and it was filmed for a documentary about him. I did survive the editing process, though after 30+ years I can't recall how long I was on screen for (but it wasn't much of a dent in my allotted 15 minutes of fame).

[trigger]

I'll have to have a look for this on Kodi!

[MarinaJosh]

What a wonderful selection of Suffolk reg shite. Doubt I'll need the subtitles, will be like when I get together with my dad and grandad....!

[mercrocker]

Wonderful stuff, I actually remember this screening for the first time....Particularly like the black Connie on non-reflective plates.  My mum drove an identical taxi in 1974/5 for our local fleet - all "L" models in black.   Can't imagine better Xmas viewing, personally.