Your Driving Test - 1935 

Hah! Came here from Neil's blog too

@@eris2178 Always a pleasure to meet another Good Omens enthusiast in the wild

Mr. Fell did very good 😄😄

Found my people

WHY IM WATCHING HAHAHA I bet he’d have issues reversing but was on the dot with everything else. Maybe just a little anxious 😂😂 also bet Crowley cheated his way through

​@@anastasiamatthews9064imo there's no way crowley bothered to take the test

@@logsday if he did I bet it was for funsies to scare the instructor 💀😂😂

@@anastasiamatthews9064 omg he would do that haha

Omg yes! Of course Crowley cheated, he couldn't care less about the rules of driving, he only cares of looking cool while doing it 😂

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This is our coping method while we wait for season 3 :')

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.. mind you there was no mobile phone or gps or 10inch lcd screen or cassette recorder for that matter..

My first car was a 1932 model Y Ford. Used to use the starting handle, to save the battery. Made a fabric cover in front grill so engine would warm up in winter. Paid £25 for it. Can still remember hand signals. What would it be worth now?

It was at least 20 years later when I took my test.

@@nickhickson8738 I sat mine.

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nice.

When my dad bought me a Ford Prefect, he told me it was a '49. The bearings went out in about a year and it sat by Dad's barn for several years before he sold it. I've never been able to find a picture of a '49 Prefect that looked like "mine" so I wonder whether it was another year than '49. "Mine" had no air cleaner, no heater, no radio, wood floor boards, little arms that came out of the door pillers for turn signals (one still had a light in it). Mechanical brakes. Cotton cord tires. Suicide rear doors. (Front doors were hinged at the front.) Crank out windshield. Top of car looked like steel from the side but the top was some kind of "canvas" stretched over wood and painted with what looked like tar. 3-on-the floor. No syncro in first. 4 cylinders about the size of the small frozen orange juice "cans" you could buy in the '50s. Vacuum wipers that didn't work (on my car) at all except while going downhill or decelerating. Headlights that wouldn't stay in alignment and, even when the were aligned, illuminated the pavement for only about a car-length in front of the headlights. Knee-action shock absorbers (I don't think they had any effect on the bouncing at all). The previous owner had bought a bumper sticker for it: "It wasn't Sanforized." How many people remember what Sanforizing was?

@@rogermetzger7335 Could it perhaps be a wartime one for a government official? Wooden floors made me think it was a cost cutting measure, useful during wartime. Canvas roofs were a prewar thing before 1938 (I think) in the U.S.A..

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That's great information, thank you

Thank you, that's interesting to know. I live not far from Sutton and took my test in Surbiton. I remember once, just after I passed my test, getting stuck at the top of the high street in Sutton whilst attempting to pull away from the traffic lights there.

In the UK, we have green P plates. They aren't legally required but they are an indicator that the person is newly qualified.

You can buy student driver magnets for your car

Yes the man of which was going 200 miles per hour by the 1920's. Not surprising really, I see so much doubt on anything in relation to an accomplishment in the 1920's with basically all the modern commentors saying that anything in the 1920's is incapable of being impressive and that if it is, they should make sure that it's called ahead of it's time as insensitive as that is, and compare it to now rather than then as though we have something to show for today. Of course this looks to be around 1934 with a English made variation of a Ford Tudor, not the American version. Just see to watching a lovely galliant film named "Los Angeles wonder city of the west' taken in 1935 by a special cinecolor camera. All real color, it takes the spectrum light and different forms of either starch, but later filmograph shape blend each of the primary and secondary colors to their closest relative. Most always turning out exact, with a little of a dark contrast and unsaturation but nothing the eye can bring to understanding how it would look if shown by eye.

ItsJustMarissa xo The quality of the vehicles has very little to do with it.

ItsJustMarissa xo Nothing to apologise for-it is a pleasure to communicate with a polite person on U tube-and very rare!!!!!

Quite a few of those back then will have been to horse traffic too.

Probably continued at 6000 deaths until about 21st century too, seat belts were fitted and available decades before being made compulsory to wear too, as well as crash helmets.

Good spot!

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george formby lol

I'm not able to drive right now, but I look forward to drive when I'm 18. Doesn't mean you shouldn't practice, though.

@Jan BradySo, you're saying I'm not going to be able to drive?

@Jan Brady Okay.

Because the car doesn’t have them hence the hand signals

are u really saying the roads were safer 50 years ago?

@@noaerrr Cars were slower. No turbos.Yes, thats what I am saying! Roads back then were adapted for the cars. Today(2022) roads are far behind, cars to powerful. I lived back then. Why would I say something, if I didn't live back then.

@@percybriscoe9886 statically you are less likely to be involved in a car accident now than 50 years ago, meaning the roads are safer. Also there were turbos

This prediction is wrong as cars are moving further towards ai robots on 4 wheels

To indicate a left turn the arm is rotated

+TAILSESTVITA1955 Our Enquiries Officer has the following reply to your query: "There’s a good deal of debate about the origins of white lines in the road. There’s a well known story about a gentleman in Lancashire chalking or painting white line in the middle of the road on a dangerous bend to try to prevent further collisions. This is variously reported as 1916 or the early 1920s. However there are numerous other claims for Kent, the USA and Canada at this time or earlier. Certainly in the mid 1920s the Ministry of Transport gave approval to such white lines and started to introduce some road markings, mostly stop or give way lines at junctions. The Ministry of Transport issued guidelines in 1933 stating lines could be placed on the road to indicate:1) - Places where traffic must stop when ordered to do so by either a Police officer engaged in traffic control or a light signal (i.e. a junction).2) - Route to be taken by traffic at road junctions.- Proximity of street refuges. - Crossing places for pedestrians where traffic is normally controlled by a Police officer or by light signals. The practice continued to grow through the 1930s but became more widespread during the 1940s. The major problem was that, at that time, they did not have a paint that was resilient enough to last long on the road surface."

+TAILSESTVITA1955 Road markings were still not widely used on minor roads in the 50s and sixties-precedence at minor crossroads was mainly decided by the road surface-the broken surface gave way to the continuous surface-I also remember a plethora of stainless steel studs in the surface-a nightmare for motorcyclists when wet!

.. and do offer to open and close the door thereafter.. good manners pays

He certainly would have then, it would probably have been about 2/3 weeks wages!

Only for time travellers

Mozart or Beethoven?

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Nothing illegal in that.

spartacusvikinga It's legal only if that was a one-way road. But it isn't, as shown by the cyclist pedalling past.

AKLDGUY It is not illegal even in a two way road. At night time, yes as the reflectors of the car will not be visible but not during the day.

spartacusvikinga It is illegal where I live (New Zealand) and I believe it also has been in the UK since before the film was made. If it isn't, it should be. The ruling here in New Zealand is that in order to park facing the wrong way, one performs an illegal manoeuver - that is, driving on the wrong side and risking a head-on crash or hitting a pedestrian who is crossing the road from the safe side.

AKLDGUY In the UK it is not illegal. Highway Code rule 248. Not sure about NZ. Ii is also legal to do a right hand reverse in the UK which involves driving onto the wrong side of the road to do. I do agree that extra care is needed and is to be noted but it is not illegal in the UK. You MUST NOT park on a road at night facing against the direction of the traffic flow unless in a recognised parking space. Highway Code rule 248 but I understand the point you make.

It’s a thing of the past in North America and some of Asia, not so much everywhere else. 80% of the cars on British roads today are manual, only 2% of cars in America are manual.

BVW730 is a 1935 USA model Ford, appears to be a "flatback" Fordor. These export models were built in Canada, I think.

+motanelustelistu You have keen eyesight! Driving tests for all were introduced from March 1935, at first on a voluntary basis but from June they were compulsory for everyone who had taken out a driving licence after 1st April 1934 . The legislation requiring this was the 1934 Road Traffic Act. The 1930 Road Traffic Act had already introduced compulsory driving tests for the disabled.

A provisional drivers license....

Collins LFC did not no they had provisional in those days

You do nearly everywhere...

It was probably the same over there as it is in New Zealand. You have to have a learners licence to be allowed behind the wheel of a car and to get a learners licence you have to take the theory test first to show that you know the road rules.

+RT & Company I'm guessing the shock absorbers weren't as effective if they had them at all.

Leaf Springs, they had no shock absorbers or coil overs.

Roger HuangRT yes they are very bouncy

Your wife is bouncy too good fellow hear hear