Austin Motor co, dealer showroom 1932 (heritage motoring films) 

Ha!Ha!

I have to say that the driver seemed to spend most of the time either in the middle or on the right of the road; I cringed when he crested hills on the crown of the road with no idea what was on-coming.

1933 very little traffic then perhaps the odd horse and cart, I think that was the year the driving test was introduced and it shows doesn't it, the look on the road workers face when they tested the brakes aaaagh,

+gregsimons48 : Do you take your Austin Seven out for a regular "airing"? Is it a sedan or tourer?

Yers! It was wonderful and quite,quite golden and most of the rest of the world jollywell knew its place!

Few working class people could afford cars in those "golden" days. My father had to wait until the fifties before he could buy a used clapped-out Austin seven van, and he had two jobs. No wonder the roads were empty.

@@petelamb1493 agreed, films like this are basically lifstyles of the rich, which would be super nice to be now, cept it would be yachts and exotic countries and exotic cars,, where the poor are the slaves and the rich live the lifestyle, mirroring the UK of old.

@@jusb1066 everything when 1st invented is for the rich.colour tv computers .ect.the price of things goes down as they sell more.thats how capitalism works.the more you sell the less it costs.

How times change, now you can't even get service from a 'service station' hence why they are called 'gas stations'.

Buy a new Subaru 2.5 and it will take you back to the golden days of checking your oil weekly. But don't worry if you cant buy oil at the Service Station any more, cause your likely to be buying it in larger quantity.

I can remember a mechanic I knew 35 years ago who told me had a an old lady as a customer and his main job was draining oil out of the sump. She would say: "My husband always told me a car needs a pint of oil every week." I suppose that was back in the early 30s- and she had listened to his advice and acted upon it long after he had departed this world.

Most real garages even in the 1960s would top up using a measuring can from a tank dispenser . Cars burnt oil much more then , or leaked it. Only newish cars were OK.

And a couple of shots of redx

With the Harley's they didn't use just drip pans. There was a drip pan and sorb-all or kitty litter to catch what the pan couldn't hold.......Indians were much the same.

My Hilman Hunter had the biggest drip tray ever. That's why the Japanese beat the British at car manufacturing.

LOL!

@@oh8wingman What do dogs and Harley-Davidsons have in common? they both like to ride in the back of pickup trucks.

And don’t mention Land Rovers they had drip pans throughout the bottom of the car .

Yes, you could drive anywhere park for free uncongested roads, it must of been a great time to be a driver

Yes, back in the days when you could rely on the Mallard to turn up, and on time too.

Mallard was a work of art wasn't it👍

Happy in our collective poverty. I remember queueing with my mam for rationed goods in the early 50's and going to the public baths, and the public laundry, the washhouse. Even in my formative years I recognised the smell of poverty. I can smell it now if I cast my minds eye (nose) back....

@@logotrikes Both of you jokers should look at "The Four Yorkshiremen" on YT. You both sound like them, sort of.

@@lawrencelewis8105 Yes, you're right Lawrence. There are many iterations of the 4 Yorkshiremen. My preference is for an all Python cast, not the earlier ones with Marty Feldman. If you want a similar laugh, try "Capstick comes Home." Tony Capstick working down pit with his dad doing a 72 hour shift and walking home 43 miles through snow in us bare feet. Nice piece of music. For the peasants it's the Hovis advert, but for Borstal-educated highbrows like me, tha' knows, it's Dvorak's Symphony from the New World...

@@logotrikes Thanks- I will check those out.

yes i think most oil was lost though leakage in those days, gaskets and seals have improved somewhat

@@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 i have a 1937 austin 7.my only car.it dosnt leak any oil.

"Controlled Seepage" as Jaguar used to say in the 1970s.

That film was taken from a VHS tape, and a copy at that

@goinghomesomeday1 for the UK 7300 aprox dead, 23000 injured half were pedestrians

@goinghomesomeday1 Well yes according to UK figures and statistics dating back to the 1920s there were 7305 road deaths in 1930. 9000 during ww2 ie 1940 - 1945 war time By 1966 numbers had climbed to a dreadful 7,985 Then numbers went down to lowest rate 2013 just 1792 deaths on British roads. Of course in the first 30 years of motorcar use the British roads were not built for cars - only horses carts and carriages but you can't just blame the roads - the drivers were blasé about their own safety and that of others. The novelty went to their heads.

Yes, much convenience now but little value.

Yes, and funnily enough there are a few dreadful phrases that sum up the emptiness of modernity. 'Four bedroom executive homes' and 'marketing suite' irritate me a lot. 'Proactive' is horribly pretentious. People serving in pubs wearing ties and name badges that say Ryan, soft drinks asst. manager' or some codswallop. People who say that with the convenience of their laptop computer they can get an hours work done before they even reach 'the office'!! What is wrong with you!!!!? Don't you want to look out of the train window or talk to someone? Read a book, do a crossword, but for fuck's sake don't start work until you are actually sat in your cell! Four people, all sat at one restaurant table and all staring at their phones. Why did you bother to meet up? Anti-anxiety pills and antidepressants that make you worse. And the piece de resistance: WEARING A FUCKING SUIT!!! What the hell is the point in one of those things? It is a 21st century version of slave manacles, and serves no earthly purpose but to tell everyone you are either an office wage slave, or that you are under the impression it makes you seem more credible or important, when it is the number one attire choice of confidence tricksters worldwide. Flags: look, it's a bit of coloured cloth which simply means you've been conned into thinking you're in a particular gang. Forget the silly fucking thing, it will do you no good whatsoever. It seems to me that these are all signs of our manipulation by dark forces or 'deep government' - possibly Jewish or Freemason big wigs who use you as a tool. We are all so dissatisfied with their scam of modernity, yet unable to do anything about it. Why does a mortgage mean you pay three and a half times over for your home? Who is getting all that money? How come RU-vid so frequently suggests videos on a topic which I have only verbally mentioned in passing to somebody? How is it the Rothschild family control just about every national bank in the world, and profit by funding both sides of just about every war that is fought? Who had Princess Diana, Dr David Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein murdered (amongst so many others), and why? Who decided that I'm not allowed to criticise certain religions? Who had Alex Jones and Tommy Robinson removed from all 'social media platforms', and why? Why has the world not been startled by the Phoenix Lights incident, the Nimitz encounters, Roswell, Rendlesham, the Sirius Disclosure Project interviews and thousands of other incredible and inexplicable events? How is it that we know there is a large region of lush greenery in the middle of the antarctic, yet information is suppressed? How is it that there are pyramids in antarctica, intelligent construction on the far side of the moon, on Mars and on Venus, yet nobody discusses this? Who decided David Icke should be ridiculed, despite every damn thing he says proving to be true? Where on earth is all our tax revenue going? There is something massive, horrifically weird but carefully orchestrated going on, and we will need to refuse en masse to be manipulated any further before we have any chance of freeing ourselves.

@@xenu-dark-tony so well said. You have hit on many points I question myself. We are suppressed, herded to think and believe what is fed, without question otherwise subject to ridicule. Be "outside of the box" (an irritating phrase but it clarifies a point) and encourage free thought, opinion and above all, questioning of what is encouraged to be accepted.

Yes but maybe the public then thought the same thing. Maybe they pined for the Edwardian era...and so forth... seems to be the case that the society of the time always found something to complain about.. just saying!

Yes I thought so too.

@@rinunculartoo3006 Yes, and also Winchester outside the Guildhall, then also driving through Hursley village and up towards Chandler's Ford. Much of it is surprisingly unchanged in 87 years.

Thanks John, glad you enjoyed it, that's one of my earliest uploads and it's still popular

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Thank you John , welcome aboard 😃

only that it was made around 1932, i am sure that it is still available on dvd, if i find a supplier i will post a link

www.motorfilms.com/heritage-motoring-films-dvds

HMFDVD5003 looks like a collection of Austin films from the 30,s

great footage is that a Austin 12/4 Harley leaving the factory?

Reminds me of the Enfield/Whitehouse 'When life was simple' films.

There was no traffic to wear it out...........

In those days oil was a consumable. Even a new car burned a bit of oil as it ran. and with a low pressure cooling system you also had to check the water when you filled up with gas. And every month or so you had to grease all of the points of the suspension and steering linkage, or pay someone to do it. It was called "a lube job".

@@oldgysgt I'm old enough to remember those days. My first car was a Ford Prefect I paid 3 quid for. I moved up in society with my next banger, a Morris Series E for 17 pound 10 shillings. And so it went on, banger after banger. Trouble is, I wish I could have one now...

125 miles per pint....I had a 15 year old Mini once, some 20 years ago, that didn't do much better than that!

I rather think that was a slip up. Considering tolerances in manufacture, and materials used, a certain amount of oil burning would be inevitable. I believe a PINT for every 1,000 miles would be, not only accurate, but seriously very good! Also the oil in those days wasn't multi viscosity nor was it engineered with loads of additives.

You are not the first to notice that, I think driving in the middle or on the right was the done thing on country lanes in those days, lets face it you where unlikely to meet oncoming traffic...perhaps a horse and cart , the look of horror on the road workers face as the driver shows how effective the brakes are cracks me up.

Martoon a very expensive and in most cases totally unnecessary luxury: addiction to motor transport has cost us dear and looks like destroying us too!

@@johnlawrence2757 You could be right John. The motor car liberated the masses but enslaved them at the same time. There's a paradox to ponder...

Yes I believe it is

Yes that's about right for the time though a lot of oil was lost though leaks

granskare goes back to Napoleonic influence. They (the French) go on the right, the Brits on the left. America kicked the Brits out (the French) sold large tracts of land to the newly independent US.

i goes way back long before motor cars, it leaves the sword hand free in case of trouble, is it true....who knows

Er wrong. We drive on the correct side they drive on the wrong side

@@nuthutch1 Driving on the right hand side of road feels more natural to me. Also, makes all your right hand turns much safer too.

Right hand drive cars allow you to use your strong hand to provide accurate steering inputs leaving the left hand to change gears.

Obviously it is, just saw it too

Martin Wooder That's obviously where a lot of the "gallon of oil per thousand miles" went!

you need a drip tray under an Austin seven

I've never seen a drip tray under a Toyota.,.lol

@@andrewsmall6279 no you dont.

Average wage then was £3 per week unless management about £5 ,you could buy a nice new 3 bedroom semi for £600 in outer london , which makes the top of the range Austin 20 look ridiculously expensive, although If you owned one of those you would probably of had a chauffeur.

Yes oil seals have improved since the 1930s

Condescending, or, in other words pure arrogance!

@@paulbroderick8438 I believe it's what's known as "received pronunciation" or "the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England" Not arrogance as such but it certainly emphasised the divide between the haves and have nots. Probably deliberately. It would be many years before the Northern accent made its way into journalism. Just the way life was then, the great unwashed were very much second class citizens whose opinions were irrelevant. Not unlike today really....

The Austin Seven was BMWs first car, made under licence (sold as the Dixi). It was also made by Datsun as the Datsun 16.

The Austin 7 swallow now what famous British brand did that give birth to, American Austin's, the Bantam, the French Rosengart , I think Holden made one, I know the chassis where exported to Australia