Gloucester Traffic & Roads,50s & 60s

[StringBitch1]

full of spirit and a great reflection of social history; a wonderful film!!!!

[knausspiano]

So enjoyable thanks. An interesting look at Glos. plus those car transporters full of Austins. Those new Austin A40s (early design) make this about 1959/60.

[kjmlux]

Great film ,unregistered Hillman Minxs on transporters amongest others ,old firms (Showerings, Shepton, John Keeling Bath ) old lorries & cars .A great bit of transport history, and colour. Thank you.

[deliow]

FANTASTIC film, beautiful vehicles and ALL BRITISH where did it all go wrong.

[georgethe100]

Thank you realy good 

[airscrew1]

Notice how none of the bus drivers or lorry drivers had the need to wear those flippin' high visibility vests that everyone wears today. That's the EU for you! Why does a bus driver need an HV vest I ask you? Good upload sir. I love old commercial vehicles they are real characters.

[sparkygl0s]

Much of Gloucester has changed beyond recognition, but the Bristol Road is still very much like this now.

[midsaint776]

what a charming and beautiful film . britain when it was great . car transporters carrying cars from variuos manufacturers, e.g rootes , vauxhall , austin (B.M.C ) . a foden brooke bond tea box wagon and drag ERF babycham and seddon metal box to name a few . the advertising hoardings advertising bovril , the littleboys cheekily waving at the camera . this is seriously lovely stuff !!!!!!!!!

[GRAHAMAUS]

Hmm, nostalgic and nightmarish all at the same time. Shows that even pre-Beeching, there was too much freight on the roads.

[airscrew1]

@GRAHAMAUS Tell me the alternative? The railways are too expensive so don't even go there.

[GRAHAMAUS]

@airscrew1 Rail could be made to work with the political will. It's only too expensive because it's underused and unsubsidised (and politically unloved for too many decades). Once the oil starts to really run out the true cost of road transport will become apparent and a more radical alternative will *have* to be found. If not, it's back to the stone age for all of us. I appreciate old classic trucks as much anyone, but as a means of moving goods, it's abysmally inefficient.

[airscrew1]

@GRAHAMAUS I disagree that the railways are underused. They are filled to breaking point on my local line during the peak periods. Yet commuters pay the highest prices of all and they are the ones that use the railways. I used to work on British Railways back in the late 1970's so I'm not anti rail. I would use them as well but there are so many restrictions about when one can travel it is quicker to jump in a car.

[airscrew1]

@GRAHAMAUS Furthermore, you say that moving goods by lorry is inefficient. How does the goods reach the factory if there is no railway nearby? Or the goods reach the supermarket? Shifting goods by rail is more inefficient. It is quicker to load a lorry at a warehouse or docks and deliver straight to the customer. I think you're looking at railways through rose tinted specs and thinking it could all be as it was in 1930. It ain't going to happen I'm afraid,. Beeching saw to that.

[GRAHAMAUS]

@airscrew1 I said it *could* be made to work *if* there was the political will. I certainly don't see any, so I expect you're right - it'll never happen. At least until there's no oil in the ground and we move to an electrically based transport network. Also, it's not either/or, it could be a mix - long distance by rail with short journeys by road. Who knows what a transport network might look like in 2100 - maybe totally autonomous maglev networks with each container moving from door to door.

[ArcticRalph]

Love the shiny new Nash Metropolitan´s on the lorrie at 7:44

[steve371970]

It's good how the narrator gives street locations, facinating to cross reference the film footage with google street to see how the locations look today.

[fj9fl]

i'd love a time machine!

[rooftopjump]

You can see where the phrase "fell off the back of a lorry" came from as half the stuff being carried here looks as if it might go that way.

[rooftopjump]

Nothing but British engineering on show - and no potholes.

[kolektanto]

Filmed before 1961 ?

[kolektanto]

In car-transporters : Austin Metropolitan, Austin A 40, Vauxhall Victor, cars of Rootes group.

[russthebiker]

brand new austin A40 farinas being delivered wow

[Bevoin1970]

If this was re-filmed today all you would see would be the cars all looking the same, and supermarket / Retail parks everywhere so now all the towns look the same....!! We certainly had class and style in abundance back then, Progress eh? 5*

[airscrew1]

Quite right and have you noticed all the useless street furniture we have today like black bollards and railings everywhere. Every town and city looks the same as you pointed out.

[Bevoin1970]

And they do too, all the same, another pet hate of mine is signs for literally everything, there are as many signs for irrelevant information as there are weeds in the pavement...

I must be getting old... :-)) ha ha

[airscrew1]

Well join the OAP club cos I'm 47 and can remember things as they were. I take it you're 40 as your name suggests 1970.

[Bevoin1970]

Nope, Im 48 ignore my name, and yes I also remember lots of good things from long way back... Not all modern things are an improvement on what we used to have...

Looks like I have my Rose tints on again... ha ha....

[Wildrover434]

What cracking old lorries in this video, love it!!!!!!

[islandtraction]

Excellent footage. It's easy to forget that town centres were like this before the coming of the motorways, which took all the through traffic HGV's away. Oldham was like this too until the M62 was built.

[NitroNoriFan]

Brilliant - I really enjoy nostalgic scenes like these.....the vehicles were individual & full of character.

Thanks for sharing

[Ronniethefish]

Some beautiful vehicles on the streets of Gloucester at this time, what about that E series Cresta at 6:37? My God we've lost every ounce of the style and class we had in such abundance over the last few years!

[Dieseldog6]

Foden01 what was your Dads name , my Dad drove there too!!

[albionreiver]

Love old lorries! -i wish there was more films like this..

[beachborrel]

great video';iam looking more and more.beachborrel holland

[gardnersmoke]

Is this footage available to buy ? absolutely fantastic ! Many thanks for posting this great film.

[craig50]

Thanks for that mate,superb.

[caravans2]

allsome vid,just to see the lorrys,theres just something about classic british lorries isant there.Its good to see old movies just to spot the motors in the background.

[thomasking55]

Great! When lorries were stylish and clad in chrome, trafficators, hand directions and oddly (to me) lots of cars being transported!

[foden01]

great video sure me dad was driving the rootes group transporter

[ezydriver1]

What year is this?

[curnock]

great bit of nostalgia