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

[Angrydicky]

This is a great thread, thanks Vin!

[Tayne]

Thanks again Vin.

 

I recognised this as I've seen the film before, it's here on YouTube.

 

[Vin]

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

 

Glad you enjoyed it Keith. Feel free to use the pics.

[Vin]

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

 

I thought you would find those interesting SL. There is another film from later in the decade about the future traffic planning in Bath and the closure of Norwich city centre to traffic and it's opening to pedestrians.

 

That's in the queue for later

[Spottedlaurel]

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

 

I thought you would find those interesting SL. There is another film from later in the decade about the future traffic planning in Bath and the closure of Norwich city centre to traffic and it's opening to pedestrians.

 

That's in the queue for later

 

Of double interest there then, as I frequently visited Bath in the early '90s. Look forward to seeing that one!

[Vin]

Another update. Another 'Look at life'.

 

This episode is called 'New roads for old'.

 

It's dated May 1959 and looks at traffic through towns and a couple of new motorway projects that are underway - namely the M1 and a new bridge over the Manchester ship canal that will replace the current (then) Transporter bridge.

 

 

 

I'm sure the car on the right is a Lancia. Mash took a picture of one at the NEC - it's in his thread.

 

 

WWII surplus being put to good work on recovery

 

 

Love the 'Lyons Swiss Rolls' lorry. I'm sure it's a 'Guy' possibly a Guy Otter. No idea what the american is next to the 'Seccombe' wagon.

 

 

I'll make no apology for including a few shots of the next vehicle - Due to it being

 

Rootes Commer and drag on duty for Thrupp & Maberley

 

 

This shabby Chinese Six looks like an ERF. I've always liked the Chinese Six wheel layout on old wagons. It's not something you see anymore. I've always wondered why it's called a Chinese Six. Does anybody know

 

 

Another Rootes Group Commer and drag.

 

 

 

A Morris Commercial I think.

 

 

An early LAD cabbed Dodge. Can't tell what company the car transporter is, but the tractor unit is a Commer.

 

 

An Austin truck on the left I think. Shell tanker is a Scammell.

 

 

The next stills are from the bit about the St Albans by-pass and the 'London to Yorkshire' motorway - the M1.

 

 

A couple of shots from the air.

 

 

End of Part 1.

[Vin]

New roads for old. Part 2.

 

This is the new Preston By-pass. Britain's first motorway.

 

 

The old and new crossings over the Manchester Ship Canal.

 

 

Some more traffic.

 

LAND ROVERS FOR EXPORT . Love these outfits - they were Leyland Beavers I believe - shame the front of the cab is never in shot.

 

 

Bedford S-type artic carrying a church steeple

 

 

Shots of London now.

 

 

Elephant & Castle improvement. The commentator says that even the tavern that gives the area it's name has had to make way - Good work

 

 

A look at motorways on the continent.

 

 

A bit of ferry action to finish off.

 

 

Standard with a strange number plate set up.

 

 

I've no idea what this is. I'm sure someone on here will though. It's so I'm posting 2 shots of it

It also has the same number plate style as the Standard...

 

 

 

[morris_ital_lover]

I am 99% sure the mystery motor is a Ford Taunus..

 

Keep up the good work!

[Shep Shepherd]

Loving the East Kent Road Car Company touring coach driving off the ferry at Dover Docks

 

Pawnote: I think that "Chinese" was a vernacular term back in the olden days for anything odd, 'back to front' or generally out of the ordinary

[michiel]

That's a 'Weltkugel' Taunus, so called after the globe above its grille.

 

Edit: ah, zu spät!

[rml2345]

Loving these screengrabs. Top work!

I think the battered Chinese Six is a Foden DG series. They also did some natty looking tractor units in the 60s.

Foden S36 chinese six tractor unit by gylesnikki, on Flickr

[andrew e]

Love the new minx shell's being delivered

[Vin]

Thanks all for filling in knowledge gaps

 

Loving these screengrabs. Top work!

I think the battered Chinese Six is a Foden DG series.

 

TBH, I did think it was a Foden, but the only one I could think of was the FG series and it didn't look like one of those.

 

I agree RML, that it is probably a DG series.

 

The fact that so many lorry cabs were coachbuilt by outside companies back in those days doesn't help. Especially when they have missing badges....

[eddyramrod]

No idea what the american is next to the 'Seccombe' wagon.

 

 

Pretty sure it's a Packard from about 1952-4, the side chrome suggests a Clipper.

 

Standard with a strange number plate set up.

 

 

I'm pretty sure this style of plate was issued to members of HM Forces serving overseas, for use on cars they bought there.

[gricer]

If anyone's interested in aeroshite, the helicopter is a Bristol Sycamore

[Tayne]

 

LAND ROVERS FOR EXPORT . Love these outfits - they were Leyland Beavers I believe - shame the front of the cab is never in shot.

 

 

[Mash]

I've been working my way through these films after getting the DVD off Amazon. They are awesome - well worth the money as there are over 50 films on this edition! Fabulous stuff

 

I also got the 1960s Motor Shows films which are also brilliant as they are mostly in colour too.

 

Oooh, I've also found a car that still survives too!!!

 

4116 RO Ford Consul Mk2

 

Date of Liability 01 07 2012

Date of First Registration 01 07 1984

Year of Manufacture 1961

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1703cc

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status Licence Not Due

Vehicle Colour MAROON

Vehicle Type Approval Not Available

 

Annoyingly, though I watched the film today I can't bloody remember which one it was because all I've done this afternoon is sit and watch these!!! There's a Borgward estate in the same film, I'll try and find it

 

Also an E-Type used by the ministry for testing:

 

163 GXR

 

Date of Liability 01 08 2012

Date of First Registration 01 08 1978

Year of Manufacture 1963

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 3781cc

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status Licence Not Due

Vehicle Colour CREAM

Vehicle Type Approval Not Available

[Mash]

Here they are (sorry for hijacking the thread Vin,couldn't resist!!)

 

[Vin]

They are great films Mash, glad you are enjoying them I haven't yet done grabs for the ones you've taken pictures of. Will do eventually.

[trigger]

I'm still enjoying these Vin so keep up the good work.

 

I'm very tempted to buy the DVD's myself and do some screen snaps for my Flickr, I've done a load recently from a few films (The fast lady and the Confession films) which I'll post up once i can be arsed.

[Vin]

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

 

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

 

Hehe. You'll like this update Gareth.

 

The Car has wings - dated June 1963. The blurb says "Natural boundaries no longer limit the range of motoring"

 

 

Loading up for the Woolwich Ferry.

 

 

 

Queensferry car ferry

 

 

Cable ferry across Windermere

 

 

 

Motorail - Holloway to Perth

 

 

 

 

This is the Ballachulish Ferry - note the Portugese registered Peugeot

 

 

Borgward Isabella estate

 

End of Part 1

[Shep Shepherd]

Borgward Isabella Combi FTW

[Vin]

The car has wings - Part 2

 

The ferry from Fairlie to the Isle of Arran

 

 

Cross channel ferry - Dover to Ostende

 

RHD Ford Taunus - looks like it has the same number plates that the Standard and Taunus had in a previous update. Someone mentioned they were issued to HM forces.

 

 

Finally, the Air Ferry - It says they shifted 137,000 cars the previous year

 

 

[Felly Magic]

I'm sure that is a shot in the motorail photos of the ill fated DP2 prototype

[Father Ted]

I'm sure that is a shot in the motorail photos of the ill fated DP2 prototype

 

I think you could be right - the larger radiator grilles mark it out as different to the Deltic

[barrett]

These really are great, do keep 'em coming. The pair of unusual Kombis (Borgward and 'bathtub' Taunus) certainly do it for me.

 

I like the slightly optimistic reg plate on the Aronde, would probably be worth a fortune now but sadly it's no longer around. TK18 is on a Volvo C30 R-Design D4, whatever one of those might be

[Albert Ross]

I'm sure that is a shot in the motorail photos of the ill fated DP2 prototype

 

I think you could be right - the larger radiator grilles mark it out as different to the Deltic

Nope. It's what became a Class 40.

[Vin]

So it's an Aronde then. I thought it was a Simca, but I didn't know what model. Thanks Mr B.

 

Yes, that is definitely DP2. They use more of that footage in another film (Draw the Fires - all about railway modernisation) and you can see the number clearly. It's also got the same Class 40 footage too.

[Father Ted]

I'm sure that is a shot in the motorail photos of the ill fated DP2 prototype

 

I think you could be right - the larger radiator grilles mark it out as different to the Deltic

Nope. It's what became a Class 40.

No, but DP2 was built using a Deltic Bodyshell, but with a few changes. It spent quite a bit of time on the ECML.

Mind you, I thought DP2 was the predecessor to the 37. Im not as much of an anorack as I thought.

 

Wasnt it written off in a crash with a freight train?

[morris_ital_lover]

DP2 was a class 50 engined Deltic and had a roofline/roofgubbins that looked far more like a class 50s as it was all built to take a different engine.

 

It was involved in a crash with a derailed freight train and was taken somewhere and dumped for a while eventually to be stripped of its engine which was reused in a class 50 (an scrapped quite recently) whilst the bodyshell and other parts were cut up for scrap.