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

[Vin]

Give your car a holiday. PART 3.

 

Back on the Ferries.

 

 

 

 

The film ends with everybody settling down for the night on the Motorail, with the end credits rolling over some lovely filmwork of the sun setting over the Consul Cortina

 

[garethj]

I'm a bit late to this thread, but it's awesome - thank you!

 

I love the idea of putting your car on a train; maybe because the idea of driving your A30 several hundred miles is akin to suggesting you drive it to Mars. Got any film of an Airbridge? Driving your car inside a cronky old plane is solid gold shite.

[DSdriver]

I wonder how much of that stuff on roofracks actually made it to the destination. I can remember as a kid all our clothes in our cardboard suitcases getting absolutely soaked on the roof of Dad's Renault Dauphine when it poured with rain.

Great stuff - keep up the good work

[eddyramrod]

Got any film of an Airbridge? Driving your car inside a cronky old plane is solid gold shite.

 

Goldfinger.

[chaseracer]

'Scene' is apparently nothing new, what with all that shit on the roofracks...

[michiel]

I'd love to have wallpaper made with all these screenshots and put it all over the walls of my garage, such great material.

 

If only I had a garage.

[Mash]

Vin, these are freakin' awesome!!! I must get on Amazon and get this lot. Many thanks for trawling through and posting.

[Vin]

Got any film of an Airbridge? Driving your car inside a cronky old plane is solid gold shite.

 

Goldfinger.

 

How about 'The Riviera Touch' with Morecambe & Wise - they fly with their old jalopy to the south of France

 

Mash, if you want to see 'Give your car a holiday' it's on this BTF collection - Volume 9 'Just the Ticket'

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Transpo ... B001HU9332

[eddyramrod]

Got any film of an Airbridge? Driving your car inside a cronky old plane is solid gold shite.

 

Goldfinger.

 

How about 'The Riviera Touch' with Morecambe & Wise - they fly with their old jalopy to the south of France

 

I forgot about that! Class choice sir!

[Vin]

Hello Shiters. Another update for you.

 

Let's have another 'Look at Life'. This edition is from November 1964 and is titled 'Living with Cars'

 

It's a nine minute film about the increasing number of cars and how society is having to deal with it. It centres on London, Norwich and Cumbernauld.

 

There are some cars which I don't recognise so I'll be asking for a bit of help indentifying them...

 

The overhead shots that start the film are Oxford Street.

 

 

Is the red car at the bottom a Ford Taunus? Also note the VW Beetle. I'll be keeping a tally as we go - Beetle 1

 

 

I think the white car above is a Fiat 1100. Not sure though. Any ideas? The front of it is under the 'at' in the first shot.

 

 

Beetle 2 (above)

 

 

 

 

Beetle 3

 

A bit of Shelvoke & Drewry action. Bit too early for it to be a Revopak

 

SCRAPYARD

 

Eddyramrod's idea of Heaven....

 

 

Any ideas what this red car is??? My thoughts were Goggomobil...

 

For ID purposes here is another shot of it burning off the Thames Trader

 

TAXI!

 

Watney's Red Barrel

 

 

 

 

 

 

French. Peugeot 203. I think.

 

 

Is the green car a Skoda. Or is it something less exotic such as a Vauxhall????

 

 

I'm no good at identifying Yank land yachts...

 

 

 

A bit of Simca 1000 action

 

 

Atkinson

 

 

 

Norwich Cathedral. Beetles 3,4 and 5. And a Renault 4

 

Beetle number 6 on the left. Another Simca on the right, I think. Might be a Renault though.

 

 

 

 

Beetle 7

 

Parking Meters and Traffic Wardens

 

 

It deserves a ticket for being such an ugly POS

 

An automated multi storey car park

 

I know it's dark but can anybody make out what the white convertible on the right is??

 

Welcome to CUMBERNAULD. And Beetle number 8.

 

Beetle number 9.

 

Back to Norwich and London.

 

 

Took me a while to get the pause right on this bit. Just so I could capture this Auto-Union DKW

 

 

So, that was 9 beetles in the end.

 

Thats all folks. Till next time.

[DSdriver]

White Fiat is an 1800.

Convertible looks like a Healey 3000 with a boot rack thingy.

[eddyramrod]

The white convertible is a Sunbeam Alpine.

The Land Yacht is a 1959 Ford Fairlane.

The "Skoda" is a Vauxhall Velox or possibly Cresta.

My heaven? Norwich, apparently!

Not often you get two PA Crestas in the same pic...

 

Cumbernauld looks an awful lot like Skelmersdale, which probably explains a lot.

 

What is it with the Beetle count? I spotted at least 4 Austin A40s in those grabs!

[Vin]

DSDriver - Fiat 1800 hadn't crossed my mind. Thanks

 

Eddy - I know the sunbeam is a sunbeam . It's the white cabriolet in the screen shot above. Seems to be slab sided with an upright rear panel and square number plate....Also I didn't think you liked ADO16s...(might be some one else though... )

 

And the Beetle Count?? No reason really. I just thought it unusual that in all the footage there were 9 'Foreign' cars of all one type. Whereas it's not unusual that there are 4 A40s as they are British. If the 4 A40s were in a German film of the time then it would be....If you get my drift

[DSdriver]

What a chump I am, I was looking at the wrong picture for the white convertible. I think it's another Fiat, a 1500. Have a gander at this and see what you think

Edit:

and the wheels look so Fiat to me

[michiel]

^mystery convertible has a bit of a Lancia Flavia flava?^

 

Lancia Flavia cabriolet Vignale by pontfire, on Flickr

 

Wow. NSU Prinz 30:

 

[Vin]

Good work fellas.

 

Looking at the rear of that Lancia, I would say it is definitely one of those.

 

NSU Prinz 30. Thanks Michiel. Now I know what it is, I googled it. It's a funny looking thing. Seems they sold them in the UK in RHD form too. Wonder if there are any survivors

[gricer]

garethj wrote:

Got any film of an Airbridge? Driving your car inside a cronky old plane is solid gold shite.

 

Goldfinger.

 

 

Also the Morecanmbe & Wise film "That Riviera Touch", which features good film of a Bristol Superfreighter operating out of Lydd.

[michiel]

Good work fellas.

 

Likewise!

[DSdriver]

Looking at the rear of that Lancia, I would say it is definitely one of those.

 

Yep, I'll go with that as well, the shape of the wheel arch and the line going forward from it. I was nearly there, just barking up the wrong eyetie arberi.

[Lord Sterling]

These are amazing Vin. Thanks for putting them up!

[Vin]

Update time again. Another edition of 'Look at Life'.

 

This time an episode titled 'Scooter Commuter'.

 

Dated April 1962 it looks at the big increase in popularity of scooters. How people use them for work and leisure and how they are made.

 

 

 

 

 

 

How about this Citroen DS. It's only in shot for a second. BUT look at this - It Fuggin well LIVES

 

The vehicle details for XXK 225 are:

Date of Liability 26 10 2012

Date of First Registration 16 10 1959

Year of Manufacture Not Available

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1911cc

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status Licence Not Due

Vehicle Colour WHITE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note the traffic warden giving a Panhard the eyeball

 

 

 

 

 

 

This looked great fun. They were hooning round the field on these things

 

Now some stills of footage of a woman on one. In the street this time.

 

 

Twin seat and handlebars on this one.

 

 

End of Part 1.

[Shep Shepherd]

 

That DS (Slough-built; the angle of the number plate gives it away) must be one of the oldest ones in the country by now, if not the oldest. I wonder if it's on the show circuit?

[andrew e]

One word Vin (well two) THANK YOU. I have fond memories of any motorail, Paddington had the last one (the dock was Platform 1) but even when it was running I never caught anything being loaded onto it, except passengers. I'm sure the covered cartics went off empty. Like anything I was more intrested in my Isolation and how many earth poles I needed than a decaying travel service. I still work with fella's how have safegaurded travel facalities (got to be a pre 87 employe I think) on the ferries, from when they were BR.

[Vin]

Scooter Commuter Part 2.

 

 

Scooter Rallies now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The film finishes with a University scooter race.

 

 

As the lad scooters of into the distance, the commentator states that in 30 years time, the traffic will be so bad that commuters could be going to work on kiddies scooters

 

[Vin]

 

That DS (Slough-built; the angle of the number plate gives it away) must be one of the oldest ones in the country by now, if not the oldest. I wonder if it's on the show circuit?

 

Yes, I did wonder if it is on the show circuit and known to enthusiasts. Maybe DSDriver will know...????

[kadams1970]

Can I just say, THANK YOU, Vin. What an amazing thread. I've just spent an hour poring through that lot and enjoyed every minute of it.

 

May I use one or two for a Blog on AROnline to point back here please?

 

/K

[scooters]

Brilliant Thread Vin, wel done mate, first class.

 

I remember riding a PX3 from Putney to Aldershott once - took me an hour and a half and by the end of it my arse felt like it had been kicked by a donkey. Reminded me that my late father would ride a scooter from Inverness to Edinburgh in 1965-66 every weekend - including the winter - to see my mum when they were courtin - that was before the new A9 was built. Mum tells the story of one December night when it took him 16 hours - he turned up at 5 in the morning and had to be chipped off the bike and treated for frost bite on his cheeks (no - not his face cheeks)

[Spottedlaurel]

Superb stuff, thank you for taking the time and trouble to provide me with an enjoyable bit of lunchtime viewing. Incredible variety of stuff on the roads back then.

 

The Norwich stills were particularly good, great to see all those locally-registered cars trundling around roads I know.

[maxpower]

look at 4th picture down on scotter commuter part 1

 

is that maggie thatcher's face on bus window

 

creepy

[DSdriver]

 

That DS (Slough-built; the angle of the number plate gives it away) must be one of the oldest ones in the country by now, if not the oldest. I wonder if it's on the show circuit?

 

Yes, I did wonder if it is on the show circuit and known to enthusiasts. Maybe DSDriver will know...????

 

Erm... I've only been to one rally this year and that was the DS and SM rally, I have looked through my pics without any success which doesn't mean it wasn't there. It was persisting down on the Sunday so most of my pics are of people taking shelter in the clubhouse.

I did snap this little beauty rising to the occasion, which shows how the front of an early French DS differs from the Slough assembled cars.