You kook! It's "woo and flutter" as in slow & fast. I definitely prefer the Australia of yesterday or yesteryear. I still have my FC Holden & my cassettes & my video tapes & I'll never part with any of them. Amazingly, none of that technology, including the FC were even released when this wonderful film was produced. Australia was booming & on her way to rising to her rightful place as a selfsufficient manufacturing nation. Sadly, that was all cancelled in 1979 when global elites decided to commence dismantling our manufacturing & our oil refineries & it was all shipped to Asia as scrap. Average Australians weren't paying attention whilst our corrupt pollies took the bribe money & began pulling our nation to pieces. Now we hit 2022 & it's obvious they want us disposed of, despatched & cleared away for whatever suits their envisaged future. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have lived in Australia when it was booming. Seeing it now is alarming.
What a great country and nation. I will never forget the 1960s when 40 mph was fast in the old eh holden 149 3 on the tree straight 6. Roughly 50 odd kw. Baby in the boot. Trailer on the back. About 12 hrs from sydney to wodonga. Picnic bbq on the way. Sandwiches for breaky and dinner. Arnotts biscuits for snacks. Just wonderful memories. No maccas no takeaway. All healthy family fun. No A/C, powersteer, electric windows, electronics or tvs or electronic games. Just books, the everwonderous view out the window and BP spotto. Great days alright.
One of the ways they destroyed the regional rail network, overhype of the road - then the corruption - and the closure of all the old rail trail stops. Tis a shame. Still, good wee video.
Your right, the big picture would have a world class rain system, then we look and decide how the best way to put in a similar road system. Although they should have been done in conjuction with each other. No votes there tho!
This is a film produced on behalf of the road lobby. When it claims that the Australian people would be happy to pay more tax for the construction of new roads and the repair of existing roads, we can take it with more than a grain of salt.
oh the politicians fix roads in queensland by illegally selling our roads off to private corporations that then charge tolls to travel. it's unconstitutional. theyve illegally sold off all the other public utilities too. the problem is the government's are all private companies too. all under direction of united nations and not Australians. unbelievable they've gotten away with it so far.
@@robertmorris6529 that would require exceptional bureaucratic efficiency……..not bloody likely. If Q is pushing it then it must be fodder for the gullible.
From the Stuart junction to Holbrook worse the worst part of the Hume Highwayin the late 60's/early 70's. If you did more than 65 mph you seren't speeding you were doing unauthourised low level flying.
I was a little surprised to realise that those kids getting on the school bus in 1957 or '58 were about the same age as me, & I was franticly identifying the vehicles & some of the locations. I got most of them right too, including long forgotten names like Foden & AEC trucks. As a apprentice mechanic in the '60's I worked on many of them too. Ahhhh, memories.
I worked on some of the Hume Hwy duplications in the 80’s. It might be a boring drive but it’s nowhere as dangerous. One example, before the Sylvia’s Gap section south of Gundagai was bypassed, one person a month was being killed there, such was the danger of it.
I can still remember watching these 16mm movies way back then (no videos in those days). The musical soundtrack was always 'all over the place'. Such fond memories. :)
I probably did one of last big 2,500 sheep droving jobs on horseback 1970s Vic after leaving Horsham tech school 74 b4 i went to Melb for a Job . The things ive done most of family forget or never knew about :) Never bored always doing something new tried learning new things tech building adventure .
@@keithprice475 Yes, my uncle was a truck driver - he was super fit and strong - until they stopped unloading trucks by hand, then he packed on the weight.
If only they had listened... I started driving on the tail end of the mess. A drive from Sydney to Newcastle on the old Pacific Highway was a nightmare.
Remember going to Sydney a two way track and taking a big risk passing two back to back semi trailers.Sleepng on the side of the road in the car sleeping sitting up with 4 other family members.
The duplication highway, from Geelong to Colac finally got finished in 2019, after 30 odd years in the making. Politicians, you have to love them, and their pig troughs. The story never changes in Australia.
@@barrymcdonald9868 Gee, thanks Barry. Nothing like a wonderful commendation from an intellectual giant like yourself. Too many "vaccines" maybe? There seems to be a growing army of helpful hinters like you. I might write to big pharma & suggest they alter the brew in their erm... treatments, since the adverse affects are discusting.
"$1500 million pounds, that's right, $1500 million pounds, I'll say it again ..." I remember the days when 1 billion was 1,000,000,000,000 before we became the 51st state of America and adopted their number system, along with everything else.
In general I hate Americanisation of our culture, but to be honest that numbering scheme is confusing. We ran with it because we weren't usually using numbers that big so it didn't matter. In practice, it's far more useful to have a consistent naming pattern based on thousands rather than having to reuse all the previous units. A thousand million is fairly obvious but ten thousand million or a hundred thousand million starts to be a bit of a mouthful. It's also more vague when spoken, is that one figure or two? We hadn't really expected that billions and trillions would be in such common usage today, but there's probably a lot of sentences you could say about the device you're watching this video on which would need numbers of that magnitude. They can keep their pounds and inches and their weird spellings.
In 1975 I drove my EK Holden from the Northern Territory to Queensland (via Mount Isa & Julia Creek), and much of the highway was still a dirt track (not yet bitumised).
What’s with the couta standing on the side of the semi trailer at 2.28? Also I remember the days when petrol engines out numbered diesel engines in semis and that dodge prime mover would have had a car derived sidevalve six in it and they used to chain or strap up a 44 gallon drum as a long range fuel tank when operating on the interstate as this dodge has akso
My Grandfather says when he was Young he was driving back of Bourke and he went down one pot hole and it took him half an hour to come up the other side !! and that's with 10 trailers connected to the truck!!.
The world lost a lot of talented people due to the wars of the 20th century. It was hard to re-build, let alone build for the future after such a loss. Transport and Storage has always been my game. I have enjoyed almost 50 years of learning T and S, and now can share it with young crew coming up through the ranks. Old timers know stuff, that you won't know until you are old. Love is one of many.
@@marktiller1383 Back in the day, I loved the liquid lunch on payday. Problem was we never got any work done when we came back from lunch. Plus half an hour always became an hour.
@@dynevor6327 A bloke got sacked for clocking off a few mates cards. Would have been about 1987, after that they had a camera installed. As long as we got back in one piece and finished the day the bosses never complained in fact sometimes they were there with us. Victorian Government Printing Office, like all Government jobs. It was pretty slack and cruizy. I left in 1989 as I found it boring.
I laughed when they said it is too inefficient to keep building roads and bridges the way they did. These days it still takes 4 bloody years to upgrade a 1.5 km stretch, even with all our "modern" methods. Pollies don't want efficiency, they want jobs, and..... We could upgrade more roads with the same money if we kept improving our methods. Such a waste.
Instead of sending a truck out with hot tar and stone to fix a fault, as in this video, it is left until it gets so bad that a stretch of road has to be ripped right up and rebuilt. Efficiency?
@@blankreg3858 Yep, This country took a giant swan dive in 1979. British Leyland was one of the first to pull it's investments out, close up shop & bale out. We're in the death throws now.
Man, 1974 was the greatest year in the Strine popular consciousness. But the 70s were the start of the rot. That was the decade when what Australia really was (an elite first world society) parted company with what we saw ourselves as (bush bashing okkers, who, as alleged underdogs, were entitled to a life of plenty). I think Australia of the 50s and 60s was a more genuinely forward looking country that wanted to shed the "Crocodile Dundee" image.
@@wizzard5442 Isn't it amazing how these expert play the victim retards just can't help themselves? They just beg for a smack in the mouth... But, if you give 'em what they beg for, you're a racist, or a coloniser, or a biggot or a terrorist, or an extremist. They love to come out & play here because they can antagonise & torment & think they can get away with it. It doesn't pan out that way... A germ is a germ & giving 'em a gentle spray of disinfectant seems to shut 'em up.
I love the way film units used to talk down to we Australians.(Melbourne 2024).This is only passingly about The Hume Highway 31.p.s. I also think that General Tax Revenue should be sacked on sight. p.p.s. In 2020 going from Melbourne to Canberra necessitated going via the Yass By-pass and onto what can only be thought of as a 'B minus' basic road.
My parents always said that the 1950's were the best years..the war was over, there was plenty of work, great music and fashion and the Australian dream of owning your own home (and car) was achievable 😊
I can still remember how we would open these types of gates with a 'check-key' system at the old Mt. Druitt (NSW) station back in the early 1960's. See at 10:42 in the video
70 years on and our road system is still lagging behind by decades. Every year tge roads get worse and all that happens is the speed limit is lowered, how long before it is faster to go by horse drawn vehicles?
Obviously, this video is about a highway, and that road continues to improve - dramatically - to this day. As does the highway from sydney to brisbane. Not that I agree one bit with lowered speed limits, but that is nothing to do with the state of the roads.
@@alexanderSydneyOz Government is just another word for control. Our governments are plainly fully aware of the mental capacity or lack thereof of the average motorist in this country & they set limits accordingly. Motorists are cashcows & even absolute halfwits gain licenses as is evidenced by the endless damage to vehicles, endless injuries & endless deaths on our roads. The gov is all about the money. They don't give a rat's arse about our welfare. They tax the wages of towtruck & ambulance drivers alike & have crafted everything to turn an endless profit for them & their investor mates. If morons weren't permitted to drive, the gov's mates in finance & insurance would drop billions in annual income instantly. Motoring is a giant rort. If it wasn't, they'd ban low IQ retards from the roads and remove the speed limits since an intelligent lifeform is capable of determining what is or isn't safe regarding their speed. Where I live, the road surface is brutal. Old tracks for horsedrawn vehicles have been fiddled with and are now carrying B-Double trucks on road base to suit horses. I build & maintain roads. We're under orders from penpushing dipshits who sit in hirise airconditioned offices on fat salaries. These bureaucrats suck the value out of everything & the few crumbs passed on to us are insufficient to make decent all weather roads. Get rid of the parasites in admin, get the halfwits off the roads, spend the fuel taxes on road construction instead of fat salaries & bonuses for scum & we could all travel safely.
@@johnbrooks9523 wow. That's a gold medal rant, and every sentence an utter load of rubbish. To just point out one thing... The per capita road toll has been plummeting steadily for decades. And Australia, if that's where you are too, had a very low road toll by world standards
@@50centgotshot9times It's called The (EDIT:) Princess Highway, or Highway 1. Some of its been replace with new Highway quality road, but still long sections of winding single lane each way remains.
Apparently in the 1950s, some UTAH construction corporation offered to build a four lane divided road between Melbourne and Sydney, in return they wanted tolls for ten years, at which point they would hand it over to the Australian people. That was intolerable at the time an was rejected. Jump forward 60 years and look at how state governments have prostituted themselves to foreign corporations and countries, example chairman Dan with his Chinese "belt and road", (whatever tf that means), and the endless toll roads feeding billions out of the country.
@@alexanderSydneyOz Do you always crash yt comments then get mad because the one you're crashing doesn't agree with you? Your life didn't quite go the way you wanted did it little fella. Don't say sorry unless you actually mean it. Oprah Winfrey espoused the concept that your "personal truth" is okay, right? Now you can feel good again old mate.
@@timsmith854 Sounds right. They carted the contents of our house from Syd to Bris in Oct of '73. They left the locked semi van out on the street outside our house & went on strike. My old man was a mechanic & he cut the lock on the barn doors at the back of that van & we unloaded our shit ourselves. Ipec can get f#@ked. I've bagged 'em ever since. We had a family of 7 & they just left us without even a f#@king knife & fork. We camped on the floor without even a blanket or a pillow while the ol' girl rang 'em all day for 3 days before the ol' man cut their lock off. I don't forget scum.
@@johnbrooks9523 What a bunch of pricks. Lucky that you were not moving to bloody freezing Victoria. I reckon that you would have taken an axe to them. Gonna make sure that I NEVER use their services.
Looks like we really haven't got things sorted still, considering what they were asking for and needed back then. Yes any type of road building or maintenance just takes too long still today so just how far have we come?
It's interesting that 2000 people died on the roads in the 1950s, when the population was ten million-odd, whereas in the 90s about 1500 were dying a year when the population had doubled.
1200 road deaths per annum with a population of 25 million now in 2021. In 1970 there was a 1061 death toll in Victoria with a population of just 2.5 million.
@@petesig93 indeed. It is interesting too that the most revolutionary improvements (as far as aggregate numbers are concerned at any rate) came between the 70s and 90s. So I imagine the big differences were brought about by the introduction of RBT, seat belts, better paved roads, and independent rear suspension, along with disc brakes. The development of 5 star safety features in the 2000s didn't really drag the overall numbers down much. But they're a godsend in an individual crash.
It was a pleasure seeing so many recognisable things, from the Hampden bridge in Wagga to Parramatta rd. Can't quite forget that our love affair with cars has cost us plenty though, quite apart from the roads themselves. The curtailment and even destruction of large parts of the public transport system, the social distance this has made between regular people, the contribution to the obesity epidemic, the transformation of our coastline from one of quaint villages into endless suburbia. The knowledge of the greenhouse effect was not widely known at the time, but that's another real cost for us all. In a way, despite the disproportionate road toll quoted here, I really despise our descent into the nanny state when it comes to safety. The ability to jump on and off moving trains, trams, and buses is something the current generation will never know. Hell, you can't even slide down the handrail to a railway platform these days, thanks to the well placed knobs they put on them. The anti fun brigade rules. Still, the sights of some bloke wandering on the edge of a moving truck in thongs, others repairing potholes without so much as a spotter, and especially those working underneath vehicles supported at that corner by a rickety pile of rocks leave a bit to be desired. The good old days never were what they used to be.
@@johnm2990 I take it back and will edit that post immediately. I think I must have been looking very casually and mistook obvious Chevvies for EK's. Rewatching (at high speed), every single thing is consitent with the 50's.
You're right....anyone who doesn't get what you've just said is living in the propaganda media bubble of uninformed ignorance and slave debt. LOL good luck to them they'll need it very soon.
You can criticize governments. The problem is when providing evidence of their corruption or warcrimes is considered a crime in itself. ie Assange, Snowden etc.
The roads now are far superior to 30 or 40 years ago, but even though they were frustrating and got easily choked, there was a spirit of adventure that no longer exists when travelling. The outback was the outback and destinations were not crowded. People and destinations were much simpler. There was far more charm in travelling and people then.
The isolation of distance and difficulty if travelling kept things more "typical", you had to go to see it, and when there, everything was a surprise. Today even international.teavell has no romance in it.You've seen it already in RU-vid, TicToc or whatever....and you've cooked the food already, even better than the locals ...sadly comical.this stupid century...😄
All those grouse old trucks, inters, commers , whites, Leyland and F series Fords a lot of them with petrol engines like most of those old inters with black diamonds and the Fords running 292 Y blocks and white mustangs with sidevalve sixes, those old commers with their 2 stroke 3 cylinder six piston TS 3 diesels and 2 speed diffs in a lot of them and see the old Leylands gradually making headway at just over a walking pace would have been a loud, hot, dirty uncomfortable and exhausting trip up what was little better than a goat track for a number 1 interstate highway in those days, those pioneer old truckies were a bunch of tough men back then! a lot of them would have returned from active service in the Second World war and hocked their balls to buy a rig to start their own businesses and what they didn’t tell you in this film is that the state a federal governments did not want competition from road transport especially the state governments as they taxed them heavily to protect the shit government railways! As a matter of fact a transport company in Sydney back in the day sent freight by two means to demonstrate once and for all the slackarse attitude from the railways and what they did was to ship 2 same packages of freight, one going by train to Melbourne and the exact same other by WHEELBARROW pushed by a team of volunteers in relay and guess what arrived in Melbourne first by a wide margin.. you guessed it the wheelbarrow team and there was a bit of a public outcry on that and from then things eventually started to change!
@@zebraz3839 I was born in Sydney in '62. Can't comment on the 1950s since that was before my time. Australia was growing in every way when I was a kid. This country boomed until yuppyism took hold in the early '80s. The place is packed full of spoilt greedy whingeing troublemakers now who just don't know what to do with themselves. I would dearly love to take todays people on guided tours back to the '60s & the '70s just to show them how to live, work & think for themselves. What we have going on here now is a seething chaotic blurr, riddled with traps & pitfalls & penalties & taxes & endless profiteering by a legion of grubs in power. I wish I could go back. What we have now is hostile, wasteful & bewildering. You would have loved the Australia I knew. It was truly wonderful. We were the lucky country. Now we get force injected & locked down & brutalised by brainwashed thugs in uniforms. My Grand Dad would be mortified if he saw what has become of his homeland. He drove those yellow & green Sydney City Council Double Decker Buses you see early in this wonderful little movie... He may well have been driving one those you see. He drove buses & his brother drove fire engines. Everything was straight forward. There was next to no "fine print". We knew our responsibilities & everything ran like clockwork. There was no such a thing as an "entanglement" or a misconception. Our lives were so much more simple then. Anxiety was virtually unheard of...
Global warming it floated across But in reality up until 1973 or 1974 the whole World was heading towards an ace ice that's what all the press was about and books written about it and all the scientist said so and Pack ice engulfed the UK and in 1973 or 1974 there was a heat wave and it melted the ice and they changed their minds That's 100 percent true crazy but look it up also all the experts said that the world was getting colder up until the heat wave then today's experts changed the data
This video will be even better in 30 years time, the 2050's, 100 years. Just looking at what some of the cars are worth now $$$$$$$$$$$ and some have gone for ever, none left.
Interesting fact, Australian media presenters were trained to only speak in an English accent when infront of Radio or TV. This is why there are no Aussie accents in old films.
What made me laugh is the in the 1950's they realised that patching potholes was a waste of time .... move forward to 2022 what do they do patch the potholes which last about 6 months... classic example Old Northern Road between Dural and Maroota ( beware there are some huge potholes where you have to cross the double white lines to get around them)
An old video of the problem of road building and maintenance in the 1950’s.....Nothing has changed, we are still confronted with narrow unsealed roads, potholes, single lanes and never ending spot repairs. If the revenue collected from motorists nationwide was used for the purpose intended for just a couple of years, we would not be faced with this ongoing problem. The truth is however, that just a small percentage goes to new roads and repairs. The balance goes into general revenue to fund a myriad of other government programmes and initiatives, whilst registration, fuel excise, GST, tolls and fines keep increasing.
The population of Australia in 1957 was about 9.5 million, yet the commentator was expecting the entire continent (similar size to the USA) to have complex series of paved roads. Comparing Australia to Europe, when those countries have larger populations and smaller distances to their borders is ridiculous.
I think the music probably sounded better in the day. It was probably stored on magnetic tape at some point in time before being digitised, and the audio quality has degraded.
As much as toll roads are frustrating they seem to get built pretty quickly and it's hard to think of a better approach. Sydney since the late 90's has built a raft of new freeways although they are too expensive. The concept of toll roads, public private partnerships didn't exist back then and it's not enough to just say our taxes on petrol fund the roads. Maybe if they had factored in a toll at every 100 km then it could have funded itself. I'm guessing the slowness is also due to placating country voters as well as state/federal buck passing.
We had tolls back then. We had to part with 5cents to get over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. 5cents was real money in those days. A 5cent bag of mixed lollies could clog the gobs of four of us kids for at least 20 minutes in those days. If you found a discarded Coke bottle you could hand it in at a corner shop and buy an icecream. Moneyback bottles were gold.
No.. it was invented it's just that 1 thousand Million was indeed 100 x 1 Million 1 Billion was 1 Million x 1 Million it's called the long numbering system and the short we currently use the short Logically - Numbers in the decimal system cycle from 0 - 9 and when you reach 0 again the next place value kicks in and gives you a 1 (No doubt you know this) - so 10 become 100 when 10 turns to 99 then graduates to 100 - it then holds that 10 tens are 100 - it holds that 100 1 hundreds are 1,000 - 1,000 1 thousands are the next name up...1 Million 999,999 upgrades to 1,000,000 1 million and for 1 Thousand to get to 1 Million we need to go through all previous values 1, 10, 100 so 1 Thousand 10 Thousand 1000 Thousand at this point (for everything to make sense) we need to FULLY UNDERSTAND HOW NUMBERS WORK so.... REFRESHER..... THIS IS A NUMBER WE GIVE IT A NAME 18 EIGHTEEN the key here is to focus on the numbers and how they increase as opposed to the name of it the names go like this ONE TEN HUNDRED ONE THOUSAND Now we have to re use all of those TEN THOUSAND HUNDRED THOUSAND Now we need a new name for the next big number we GAVE IT THE NAME MILLION we also made up a fwe more names MILLION BILLION TRILLION QUADRILLION SO we follow the rule of 1, 10,100,1000 before we escalate Now instead of names, let's switch back to number so we have 1 Million 1,000,000 10,000,000 10x is the next step 100,000,000 100x is the next step 1,000,000,000 1000x is the next step at this point we have included another comma, each succession of 3 zero's gets a comma to indicate the next level up (but this is not 1 billion) THE WORD IS THE CONFUSING PART) it's 1,000,000,000 (the word we assign is irrelevant, i could call this Quadrillion, THE VALUE IS WHAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE, the actual value) but it's not 1 billion , it's 1 thousand million then we have 1,000 ,000,000 10,000 ,000,000 10 thousand x 1 million 100,000 ,000,000 100 thousand x 1 million 1,000,000 ,000,000 1 thousand thousand / 1 Million x 1 Million THIS IS WHERE WE GET TO 1 BILLION this is the mathematical original way (Long numbering system) of doing is it's consistent with mathematics since numbering systems were invented the way of writing 1 Billion like this 1,000,000,000 can be challenged and debunked WHICH IS WHY HAD TO INVENT (AND REDEFINE THE PARAMETERS) OF THE SYSTEM AND CALL IT TEH SHORT NUMBERING SYSTEM AND WHAT WAS THAT JUSTIFICATION Basically From now on we are going to write 1 Billion like this 1,000,000,000 SEE.... DEBUNKED Why do you think we suddenly got more billionaires but not more Millionaires ? the billionaires are not really Billionaires they are 1000 Millionaires and to get to a trillion it's 1 Billion Billion and to get a quadrillion is I Trillion Trillion Makes sense right you must use up all the digits to the right before putting a 1 on the left BASIC FUCKING 2ND GRADE MATH so it's not the math that has changed or the place values IT'S THE WORDS THAT WE USE TO NAME THEM THAT HAS BEEN SWAPPED TO A LOWER VALUE AND THERE IS YOUR SOURCE OF CONFUSION
@@DavidNotSolomon at one point, around 15 years ago or so it had me confused as well. it's like.... they just changed the system without telling anyone it seems like (and this is my personal take on it) people had a tough time getting to MILLIONAIRE but billionaire's were hitting a billion so just to make the goal easier they said ... fuck it... We've got 1000 Million that's it.... WE'RE BILLIONAIRES LOL a sort of cheat if you will to convince yourself that you achieved a goal that you didn't that's what i think which if you think about it is now why our national debt is IN THE TRILLIONS but actually it's not , i'ts in the Billions but you see (this is where shit gets deepeer) they can now adjust inflation rates to get more money through taxes to pay a national debt THAT NOW SEEM LARGER THAN WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS it's interesting huh at first it seems like a minor change then you dig deeper and it's like ooooooohhhh is that what they are doing
My God, I'm SO GLAD I didn't have to drive the roads as they were back then! Mind you, the Federal Highway between Goulburn and Canberra was still life-threatening in places in the late 1980s and it's only now that the Pacific Highway is approaching a complete dual carriage upgrade! Very interesting footage, but why oh why did they have to back these films with horrible, loud out of tune music?
Made before the world's leading mathematicians discovered the number 1 billion. My new computer has 150 thousand million bytes of memory. That's a lot of millions!
