Gloucester Traffic & Roads,50s & 60s

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Traffic in & through Gloucester in the 50s & 60s.

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Travel & Events

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• Gloucester
• Traffic
• Car
• Truck
• Lorry
• Vehicle
• Transport
• Leyland
• ERF
• Seddon
• Atkinson
• Vintage
• Classic

[NitroNoriFan]

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

Thanks for sharing

[Wildrover434]

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

[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

[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.

[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.