Air Ferry (1961)

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5 жыл бұрын

This short extract is from the Dunlop Film Collection held at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. Taken from the 1961 film 'Montage Magazine No.3', this clip shows cars being taken abroad on a Bristol Type 170 Freighter at Lydd Airfield.
Find out more about the Film & Video Collection at nationalmotormuseum.org.uk/co...

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@moltderenou 3 жыл бұрын

Around 1955, my parents used Silver City to fly our car, myself and my two sisters to Le Touquet to then continue to the S of France. Just as the plane was beginning to taxi to the runway, my youngest sister, who was 3 at the time, let out a massive shriek saying that she had left her doll in the airport lounge. The pilot stopped the plane, turned it around and went back to the bay. In the meantime a stewardess rushed out of the building waving the doll in her hand. The door was opened, doll handed over and the flight then proceeded as planned. Thanks Silver City !

@LordSandwichII 3 жыл бұрын

Your parents must have been loaded! :D

@moltderenou 3 жыл бұрын

@@LordSandwichII - He made a good living (inherited zilch) and enjoyed spending his money, which was good as he died ten years later at the age of 54. If my memory serves me correctly we did the same the following year. What stands out even more in my recollections is the flight he took me on around that time to Genoa, Italy, and back again in a Sunderland flying boat, to spend a week locally. My Mum couldn’t come as she was pregnant, so it was just him and me. I must have been 7 or 8 years old. Cheers.

@garmar8329 3 жыл бұрын

Love this story 😊

@moltderenou 3 жыл бұрын

@@garmar8329 🙂

@davidfurness1 2 жыл бұрын

@@moltderenou I've just heard about this service, from a family member who flew Lydd to Le Toquet around 1960. Had no idea these even existed. Amazing.

@matthewwalter276 3 жыл бұрын

We did this trip from Lydd to Le Touquet twice 1963 and 64. As a 7 year old it was the greatest experience of my life. We then drove down to Spain. I left my jumper on the plane and I got it back when we returned to Lydd. The noise in the passenger cabin was huge. Needless to say i went on to be a cabin steward on Int’l flights. 12 pax maximum in the back.

@stephenfrankland1986 4 жыл бұрын

I can remember taking this flight, as a small child, in the early 60s on a family motoring holiday to spain

@fjbutchbragg8129 2 жыл бұрын

love the music

@martinross5521 3 жыл бұрын

On a Lydd to Le Touquet Silver City flight I asked for permission to visit the pilots, who let me stay on the jump seat all the way to landing. I’ve a few photos taken on my Brownie 127 to remind me of a special day for a twelve year old

@Superbustr 3 жыл бұрын

Smoking on planes, taking your car with you on the plane, no security checks. I wish air travel could be like it was in the 1950s/60s.

@michaelbrant1668 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, like as expensive as hell.

@LordSandwichII 3 жыл бұрын

You can still do most of this if you have enough money.

@Superbustr 3 жыл бұрын

@@LordSandwichII Oh really I have never heard of a paid service where you can fly with your car on a short distance flight. Sure you could stick a car in the hold from Dubai to London on an a360 but that is long haul.

@msparry1 4 жыл бұрын

OMG. I remember it so well. Le Touquet one year and Hurt to Cherbourg the next. Happy childhood memories

@allgood6760 9 ай бұрын

Thanks fot this we operated Bristol Freighters with Safe Air.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿

@Pennywise180 9 ай бұрын

Used to watch these aircraft fly in and out of Coventry Airport as a child...awesome sight.

@daddybob6096 5 ай бұрын

@allgood6760 Yes i'm from that era, i was the 1st permanent resident Ministry of Transport Traffic Officer appointed to Picton mid 60s where i served for several years. I met a Safe Air Pilot during my time there and we became firm friends together with the late Max Miller, a colleague from MoT Blenheim. That Pilot was Roy McKenzie, a real hard case guy. Bob. LH.

@barrybarry6592 2 ай бұрын

We called them Bristol frighteners

@Tirana44 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a 7 year child, we went on a family trip to Italy with our trusty Citroen DS19 along for the ride. I believe our Bristol was operated by Channel Air Bridge. Much later, in 1975 I flew on BAF Carvair from Southend to Ostend and return.

@Kaitydid74 3 жыл бұрын

I never knew that this was a thing, super cool

@pat36a 2 жыл бұрын

There is 1 of these at the Pima Air Museum. Non running, static only.

@brianperry 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the Queen has a job as an announcer at the terminal...

@ovloh 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, we need this.

@baileysnice1 4 жыл бұрын

love it...get there half an hour before.....

@blairedwards6025 6 ай бұрын

Flew on one of these in 1974 from Southend to Ostend for a family holiday. No car!

@beechlad3541 3 жыл бұрын

Fabulous film :)

@GWAYGWAY1 2 жыл бұрын

I am almost certain that the car marshal meeting the car , was my Father who worked there for a long time loading the planes with the car.

@madcarew5168 2 жыл бұрын

Built the airfix!!

@annoyingbstard9407 3 жыл бұрын

We used to go to the airport to watch these planes being loaded and taking off when we were on holiday in Kent. We could never afford to go ourselves - actually we couldn’t even afford a car.

@wotnotvintage7762 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! ... the French Immigration Officer didn't seem to be too pleased to see Terry Thomas though!!

@Ribeirasacra 3 жыл бұрын

He is not French. Ostend is in Belgium. 🇧🇪 Even the producers with the stereotypical music could not work that out. 😠

@christopherrichards3601 3 жыл бұрын

@@Ribeirasacra 😴

@bladder1010 3 жыл бұрын

I say!

@moltderenou 3 жыл бұрын

Thought it was James Bond

@stupididiot369 2 жыл бұрын

Toot toot !

@GWAYGWAY1 2 жыл бұрын

My Father worked for Silver City at Lympne and later at Lydd when it was built. He was a steward to start then a Car Marshall Loading the cars. He later ran the Cafeteria. He went back to Lympne and joined Skyways to run the Catering.

@DennisGentry 4 жыл бұрын

Just be sure to drive on the other side of the road!

@Ballinalower 3 жыл бұрын

I remember taking the air ferry more than once when I was a kid. But I thought it was to France. And didn't they also fly to Jersey at some point? I have a vague memory of doing that. My dad's car, incidentally, was an early model Jensen Interceptor convertible. One time we took it all the way to Spain.

@johnparnell8571 2 жыл бұрын

Would that be the Jensen Interceptor of 1951-1957? I am looking at buying one of those. Depending on which source you consult, they only made 86 or 88 of them. The chassis was a modified Austin A70 and the 3993cc straight six engine was from the Austin Sheerline. Do you remember the registration number of your father's car?

@Ballinalower 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnparnell8571 it was one of those. Red with tan upholstery. A tan soft top and had a solid perspex sort of curved rear window. I remember it having a Jersey number plate, so J and some numbers. It cost just under £2000 in about 1953. My dad sold it about 1966 for £65. That's all I remember. Great car. I learned to drive on it.

@Ballinalower 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnparnell8571 I think my dad once said it was one of only 12 convertibles made. I remember seeing one or two other hard top versions but not another soft top.

@darkknight1340 2 жыл бұрын

This service needs to be resumed,I'm sure that there would be tremendous demand.

@SaxonSuccess 10 ай бұрын

Where do we get the aircraft from?

@darkknight1340 10 ай бұрын

@RequestPigeons There are plenty of ex military C-130s available,as well as the Airbus A 400M atlas which would make excellent car transporters.

@SimonWebbRCandModellingChannel 2 жыл бұрын

They should have had one of these on The Italian Job instead of the coach......they would have got away and the Minis would have remained intact!

@guaporeturns9472 8 ай бұрын

Terry Thomas is being unusually normal in this video

@melrose9252 2 жыл бұрын

Blimey!

@ProjectFlashlight612 2 жыл бұрын

The air ferries did as many flights per day as humanly possible, because though the service was very popular the planes just couldn't carry enough cars per flight to make the operation truly profitable.

@sarbaazchabahar 3 жыл бұрын

I thought that was columbo's car😀😀😀

@erik_griswold Жыл бұрын

The size of the Belgian Policeman’s hat!

@totofromoz5412 Жыл бұрын

@1:35...I would like to know why Queen Elizabeth was announcing flight departures.

@user-hb8be5wb4q 2 жыл бұрын

And there you are with a car that is built to drive on their right side of the highway!

@iancarr8682 2 жыл бұрын

Bristol Freighter (ex RNZAF) at Aerospace Bristol museum, presently dismantled...

@carmanbazza 2 жыл бұрын

Would be great if was popular now.. save going on a ship and driving hundreds of miles to the port..

@beagle7622 3 жыл бұрын

They didn’t like flying on one engine from memory. Bristol freighters

@holgerhn6244 3 жыл бұрын

Is this how Ronnie Biggs got to the Côte? And left all worries (Scotland Yard & such) behind...

@sarbaazchabahar 3 жыл бұрын

The daddy of 747😂

@bfmcarparts 3 жыл бұрын

1:37 What's up with the two tone car in the background with missing components (wheels, lights, glass?)? Is it one of those KDC (Knock down cars) built by car manufacturers and final assembly is done in the other countries to reduce export tax?

@kurtmuller1861 3 жыл бұрын

They look like SIMCA cars imported from France, ready to be completed for UK specification (headlamps, etc.).

@bfmcarparts 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Kurt, I thought so. Similar idea that General Motors did with some of their 1960s products with assembly completion in Holland. Or the airport thieves are wanting more than just hubcaps.

@tangerinedream7211 2 жыл бұрын

Yes they are Simca Arondes, that model was replaced by the 1500 in about 1964. At least those imports aren't standing in about 18 inch deep water like the Lancias stored when imported in the mid seventies.

@rogeruk4291 2 жыл бұрын

Terrifying 😲

@ChrisZoomER 2 жыл бұрын

Why does that look like a very primitive 747?

@mebeasensei 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t figure out where they sit if the cars are in the hold! Are they two separate planes?

@NationalMotorMuseum 3 жыл бұрын

Passengers and cars were all on the same plane

@awuma 2 жыл бұрын

Cars up front, passenger cabin in the rear. It was the same in the Carvair, a DC-4-based combi I flew on from Southend to Ostende in 1972.

@patricklloyd 2 жыл бұрын

Passengers at the rear. Once the engines were at full throttle you couldn’t speak to anyone as the noise was horrendous . As a youngster it was an amazing experience and I still have great memories of our driving a through to Spain

@markiesmith4537 4 жыл бұрын

Silly point - The size of that uniformed French customs officer's hat! :-)

@lapisredux 4 жыл бұрын

he has a gun so can wear a big hat.

@Ribeirasacra 3 жыл бұрын

Silly point .....Ostend, where the plane landed is in Belgium.

@Snake-ms7sj 4 жыл бұрын

The cabin wasn't lighted? People sitting in the dark ....

@sapanavarani9747 4 жыл бұрын

Was smoking allowed inside the aircraft back then??? 😲

@NationalMotorMuseum 4 жыл бұрын

Bans on in flight smoking didn't start until the 1980s.

@sapanavarani9747 4 жыл бұрын

@@NationalMotorMuseum i totally was unaware of this fact. Thanks a lot

@Superbustr 3 жыл бұрын

@@sapanavarani9747 I think there are a few airlines that still allow smoking like Iran air if you didn't know.

@moltderenou 3 жыл бұрын

Superbustr - Aren’t they the ones that allow explosive packages ?

@nickwalter9630 3 жыл бұрын

Im getting on a bit. I remember smoking on planes, tube trains and cinemas (left hand side of the auditorium)

@fredfungalspore 2 жыл бұрын

Wow 2000 feet my drone fly's higher than that Chunk...

@guaporeturns9472 8 ай бұрын

300 flights a day? Don’t think so

@jackkircher1755 3 жыл бұрын

Not that easy these days!. There is a lot of red tape and money involved in transporting a car overseas!

@Powertampa 3 жыл бұрын

The countries that these operated around are now part of Schengen so nothing has really changed there. Getting a car over the big pond is also not that complicated if all you plan to do is take it with you on holiday. When you consider enterprise things get complicated, but importing cars has been around since the car was around anyways so those processes are as efficient as they ever were.