This will make you laugh....a bag of walkers crisps in the service station will cost you £1.80 now and each bag of crisps cost 1.7 p to produce. nuts and I won't pay it.
Seddon Atkinson, Atkinson, AEC, Guy, Scammell, Seddon Diesel, Leyland, ERF, Foden, Dodge, Commer, BMC, Albion, Bedford and Ford. We made plenty of Lorries in the past, how times have changed.
Thanks Jemma Warren for puting the link to this video... love it!!
4 месяца назад
We had a demolition gang of lads from barking & dagenham .. working at chelmsford from 1986-87 .. we all stopped at Rose Cafe every morning 7am for the ham off the bone .. egg & chips.. no exageration , it really was the best ham ive ever tasted..👌🏽👌🏽 great memories of that place.. 🏴
Great memories, was on general haulage uk in eighties and nineties, half the traffic and idiots compared to now, loads a plenty as we were still a nation that manufactured things, and they needed moving. Didn’t try the rose cafe, but they were plentiful, and cheap. No doubt most bought up by developers and covered with houses now. You don’t see many flatbeds now, bet a lot of drivers out there now have never roped and sheeted, lucky sods!. Retired now, and enjoying it, wooldent do it now for double the money, too busy out there.
Ahh Brilliant !! i asked my dad to record this for me (VHS) back when this was on on .I think c1986..ish. I was away around Ireland delivering as a lad working as a drivers mate. When i sat down to watch it had only recorded about 3 minutes as the tape was full because my sister had come in and recorded Eastenders 😥😥😥I was so pissed off ! my poor dad was very embarrassed. ive been searching for this program ever since then and came across it this evening totally by accident , My Dad is gone from us 2 years tomorrow ! how unreal , Many thanks for uploading this . Brings back so many memories of 12 years of fantastic times out on all the roads💚💚🚚🚛🚚🚛 of ireland . ps imagine asking for a small salad in that cafe >>>🥓🧂🌭🍟🍟🍟🍗🍗🍖🍖🥓🥓🥓🍳🍳🍳
Brilliant this my late dad was only into tippers but had mate John Welsh called him dipstick he was always checking his oil had late 4 legga d series took me all over country late 70s early 80s bugger school
I went into the Rose Cafe a few times in the 1980s, usually when I was heading home from Chelmsford. I always remember the greeting from the chap working there. “Tea mate?”
Al 'right gov I'll 'ave 2 sausage, egg, bacon, beans, mushrooms no tomatoes and a fried slice. any chance you could do chips with that - Cheers oh and 2 slices of thick and a large Rosie lee great thanks - those were the days, sadly gone forever - I started driving trucks back in the early sixties and you'd get a breakfast like that for around 6/- (30p)
Brilliant! Went the rose lots with my dad when i wasnt at school and he had to take me with him in his lorry......i had a big lesson on how bad language can be turned into a art form !
Ham off the bone with egg and chips sounds pretty good...and a slice of homemade steak and kidney pie on a full English breakfast is nothing short of sensational !
Most of the country is ignorant of the "Babby's Yed" (or babie's head) the steak and kidney pudding. Steak and kidney encased in suet pudding. Keeps forever on a bain-marie.
Those were the days, I used to love the job back then. Just jacked after 13 years and zero bumps in the same job after the bastards insisted on a driver facing camera... in a sleeper!...39 years on the road on artics. Not for me any more fuck’em.
Never seen this before, didn’t have a TV back then, too busy up the road! Loved the juxtaposition of the various clips edited together in a seemingly random way. Always had the Tim Spall characters at the Commercial Motorshows at Earls Court in the 70s-80s as well as on the road - Aaaargh! Had to laugh at the farmer in the pig yard with the sound of sheep Baahing - What?? Nice one. Not forgetting Ian Drurys inimitable style and lyrics. All classic, thank you for uploading this treat.
With the Ian dury soundtrack and Nigel driving down the motorway it's almost got a psychedelic feel to it. When the woman was at the trade show driving a virtual truck what on earth was the bloke doing standing in front of her!😉
Jeeze did you see that truckers breakfast. That's a heart attack on a plate. In London I order the early death special in my cafe and the owner always smiles
What is the song called at the start of the video that goes "gone for 100 miles on a lousy night in the freezing fog on a country road where the ice is black and snow is white with 40 tonnes of dangerous load"?
I think that too, but, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet appeared on TV in 1983 and one of the drivers is talking about 38 Tonnes. I've tried looking up the jump from 32,520kg to 38,000kg and I can't find it, but I'm sure it came later. Would Tim Spall be doing this in the later 80s?
Every time I watch that intro of the trucks being overtaken I wonder what sort of steady cam mount they filmed it from that can drop from 15 feet to ground level instantly. Also just how close they came to those roadworks, doubt they got a second chance.
I remember sitting down as a kid to watch this on bbc2 after seeing it in the radio times,then the announcer said there was a program change,so I never saw it 😩 thanks for putting this on 👍🏼
@@72whoosh it was literally pulled at the last minute because of concerns over product depiction and advertising, I understand the original edit featured Volvo trucks more heavily and it was felt to be too much like an advert. This was the re-edited version that was broadcast a few months(?) later.
The time that this film was shot seems like a long lost age and not very recent history. The British transport cafe really was such a vital component of the convayance of goods and sevices essential to the country on so may levels. Sadly, they have all been replaced by corporate chains that offer very little value for money. My late former father in law (my first wife's dad) was a lorry driver, a job he loved but had to give up due developing epilepsy. He loved his job and never really got over having to leave that career and vocation behind him. He was never the same after that and seemed to struggle financially and persoanly and became financially enslaved in a factory job that he did not enjoy and was not profcient at. I recently discovered he died about 12 years ago. I think of him now as I watch this and, indeed, all those men. (and women) who provided a vital service to the country. In memoary of Keith Bowskill, Wroot, Lincs. Thanks for eveything, Keith! PS: It was great to hear music track provided by the legendary Ian Dury and his talented band featured in this film! Lastly, the womdefully tallented Timothy Spall has certainly come a very long way since recording this!😂
It really was a different world where people had respect for one an other. They were fantastic simple days and unfortunately since the 2000s people have changed, less conversation and everything too convenient so no one no longer appreciates one another. Crazy it's probably less than 40 years ago.
I've been trying to find out for ages. Neither Shazam nor Soundhound have been any help... Can only assume it was written especially for the programme and therefore never released. Sadly.
@@LandersWorkshop suspect that’s just the incidental music used when the blue camper van is being driven about but I’ll look into it just in case. Thanks 👍
I've been searching myself since 1987, no one has ever heard of it under that name, Jackknife Frank or anything similar. I suspect it might have been a one off recording since, obviously, Ian is also the narrator.
My dad ( getting the haircut) once said ...the film crew were in lorry park set up to view the trucks pulling in, my dad was asked to pull back in & they shot it..bull horns on top of an orange DAF ,Bryce company .. so ' is this rose cafe film have unseen footage? that was cut .. ? I know trucknet UK spoke of some sorts also .. Begging ??????? Long time ago tho Jim
@@joseloonybin5478 that’s the name of one track used but we’re after the main music used at the beginning where the line of trucks in driving down the dual carriageway.
