Austin Eight over the hills, is an introduction movie from 1939 of the Austin 8. It is the first colour introduction movie Austin ever made.
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@istp19673 жыл бұрын
Beautifully picturesque scenery in a cute little car. Doesn't get any better than that . I actually felt proud of that little car 😀💕👍👍👍👍
@damarishawn21512 жыл бұрын
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@zahirsonny76892 жыл бұрын
@Damari Shawn instablaster =)
@neilrutherford40383 жыл бұрын
I never thought there was such footage, combines all my loves, outdoors, Lake District but especially Classic Cars!. Thank you muchly.
@peterbonnezАй бұрын
My 1st car. Lovely to find this film.
@nygelmiller52933 жыл бұрын
Amazing hill climbing on some of those old Austins! I once saw a film of an Austin10, I think, ad THAT was what first amazed me!
@johndoyle47234 жыл бұрын
I loved the old views of the roads, wow they were bad. The Wrynose Cockley and Hard Knott route is still fun today, and of course 3 Shires stone still marks the Old countys meeting point. When I were a lad, Coniston Old Man were in Lancashire.
@carbrochures4 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear you like it John Doyle
@landyfan53664 жыл бұрын
Utterly spellbinding. Love the music too, Smetana’s My Country. I bet a few tyres had to be changed in making this film !
@Austineightregister4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Landy Fan
@terryhayward79053 ай бұрын
My first car was the 1947 model Austin 8, I wish I still had it a great little car. It was made the year that I was born
@iankellett34939 жыл бұрын
They knew how to drive in those days. Mind I bet that Austin was loaded with options. Like a heater...
@sightsounds94536 жыл бұрын
I very much doubt it...heaters were considered rather effeminate in those days, like filter tip cigarettes... Opening wind screen maybe - to get a nice blast of cold air to see through the fog...
@kelvingoode13932 жыл бұрын
oh the innocence of those days
@daviddjerassi7 ай бұрын
90+% of modern cars would not even get half way round that circuit to day what a great little Austin loved the video thank you.
@BornAgainCynic00867 жыл бұрын
My little Austin 8 took me everywhere, excellent ground clearance. In Australia the heat was a bit of a problem for the cooling system though. Mechanical 4 wheel drum brakes meant you really judged your braking distances very carefully.
@wckoek Жыл бұрын
I know this is an old reply, been looking at one for a classic car endurance race. It suffers from heat you say, the engine is air cooled?
@BornAgainCynic0086 Жыл бұрын
@@wckoek No, it did not have a water pump, it is a Thermo Syphon system. Look up Thermo Syphon and you will see. But in Australia we get scorching days here. Otherwise serious;y a robust vehicle.
@wckoek Жыл бұрын
@@BornAgainCynic0086 thanks, I suspect it gets hot here in Malaysia as well
@BornAgainCynic0086 Жыл бұрын
@@wckoek ahhh, yes for sure.
@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
@@BornAgainCynic0086 Ahhh yes---the good old Empire trade, virtually destroyed post war.
@tonydurack68413 жыл бұрын
Oh, how I loong for a return to those non-existent innocent days!
@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
tut tut---synic
@RichNoons4 жыл бұрын
This is just lovely. Thank you for publishing this it was fascinating to see what was some of the older routes that are now walking routes.
@Austineightregister4 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it!
@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
@@Austineightregister Was this made for Cinema, or the Car trade? Bloody war just weeks away. My family owned several Austins of this shape, post war, and one was a 20 Hp, monster.
@peteacher529 жыл бұрын
These were great little cars. My grandmother had one and it could go along a motorway at 60mph; I wouldn't say comfortably because it was roaring, but 50mph was a good realistic cruising speed, which it could, and often did, maintain all day. Nan bought it about 1956 and put another 80,000 miles on it, totally trouble-free. Col, NZ.
@nygelmiller52933 жыл бұрын
To Colin Gantiglew, Not only WAS this hill - eating car amazing, but also your equally amazing grandmother, who put 80000 miles on it! I would love to have known her!
@peteacher5213 күн бұрын
@@nygelmiller5293 Correction - Nan bought the car in 1953 and ran up 8000 miles or so per year until 1961 when she bought a 10 year-old A40. She died in 1963 aged 87.
@petercarter98624 жыл бұрын
I've just picked my jaw up off the floor !
@carbrochures4 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it Peter Carter
@jamilaparvez83014 жыл бұрын
Even we traveled to hill station those days the petrol was cheap no litter but gallon lovely memories Wowwwwww
@leejankovskis78147 ай бұрын
I had a 37 Austin 10, the quality of the car was outstanding. Why can't we make a good product like that these days?
@rogerisleofman22 күн бұрын
Accountants are in charge now, not engineers!
@blackvulcan1004 жыл бұрын
The low torque of cars from that period made them good hill climbers,the wheels were less inclined to spin and lose traction.I had a 1937 Morris 8 which was brilliant in snow.
@Austineightregister4 жыл бұрын
We will never find out, but can you imagine that the Austin Eight was introduced during the 1939 Berlin motor show! The show started without any example of the Austin 8 on display, but half way the show, three new Austin 8s were displayed. Later many Austin 8 Military Tourers were captured by The German army after the battle of Dunkirk, hence there are many historical photo's were Jerry's drive the little Longbridge manufactured Austin Eights.
@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
Any good on Porlock Hill. ?
@blackvulcan100 Жыл бұрын
@@MrDaiseymay Yes Yes I went up Porlock Hill in my Morris 8 although at the time I did not realize how steep the hill was.
@simonf89023 жыл бұрын
Pa Austin hated hydraulic brakes. Said they would encourage furious driving.
@Roger_Stenning7 жыл бұрын
4:23, gawd, I felt that from here! :O
@juliethurgood36673 жыл бұрын
From that point on he had a bag of frozen peas on his seat.
@robwhythe7934 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. I remember traveling those passes in my Dad's old Morris 8 (essentially the same car) around 1960. Interesting, too, that they found the view down to the head of Great Langdale so good that they put in in two other places in the film where it wasn't relevant (the view down from the top of Hardknott at 11:00, and the beginning of the Kirkstone at 13:50). It's a lovely view, but not THAT good! 😁
@carbrochures4 жыл бұрын
Great to hear it brought back memories Rob Whyte. More on www.austin-eight.com
@nickb53912 жыл бұрын
@Rob Whythe The Austin 8 & Morris 8 were designed by the same person Leonard Lord who became the Chairman of B.M.C
@AntonHu4 жыл бұрын
Later that year: WW2. Hope both the guys got through it unscathed (unlike multiple tyres and suspension components in this film, I imagine - or maybe not?)
@Austineightregister4 жыл бұрын
Not sure how many tyres and how many repairs have been done during the tour. May be the cars were sold as new or as first class occasion. The car is no longer registered also not in the Austin Eight Register, so may be it was written off after this tour.
@jeffboatright19 күн бұрын
Wow, Tommy Wisdom was the driver! He had a long career as race and rally driver and automotive journalist/editor. Check out his Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Wisdom
@davidpengilly4002 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed that! I think they call it the BBC voice-very cultured, very trained. I have just bought a Morris 8 and intend to build a lightweight special over the next year or two to drive on international rallies in the coming years. Glad to see how durable the original car was!
@keithmountain94372 жыл бұрын
Except that it was an Austin and not a Morris !
@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
I wish my old car had been an Austin. My first trip ( with my brother ) was from Bristol to Lynmouth, in 1958, the car --a 1937 Morris 8. ( without any previous knowledge / maps etc) . I had the shock of my life when tootling through Porlock, Suddenly, the road seemed to be aiming at the sky. with the car coming to a stand-still, my brother said get into ist gear, I said , it is. A man driving a monster Humber Snipe , coming down the hill stopped and said, ''You'll never get up there in that sunny. Suddley a Autin 8 ,like in this film , passed us , on up the hill. I later learned that the Austin 8 had a fourth gear, with very low ratio. ( we got to Lynmouth, via a lower toll road. Happy Days.
@nickb53912 жыл бұрын
Production was halted the same year & restarted in 1945, the only Austin 8 model built between 1939-45 was the Austin 8 Tilly a military truck
@Austineightregister2 жыл бұрын
The Austin Tilly was based on the Austin 10. The war time Austin 8 vehicles were two seater tourers Austin 8AP military tourer, used as staff car or baby radio car. About 9.500 Austin 8AP military tourers were manufactured and about 25 of those are left today in driving condition.
@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
YEP--all production halted, except for military use. Post war, we couldn't produce enough, mostly , production was for export.
@chunkyedwards53813 жыл бұрын
If I am not mistaken, apart from the car, the first sign of the 20th Century is the telegraph poles at 14 minutes in.
@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
Telegraph poles, first in use, along the Great Western Railway , 1843, but along isolated roads ? ?
@cathyhuxley50873 жыл бұрын
I was privileged to own one icey roads with inclines no problem nice little car
@h-j.k.89712 жыл бұрын
At the time there was great confidence in the british car industry, rightfully so.
@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
then the bloody WAR
@kennyscott10896 жыл бұрын
My first car was an 8 tourer
@Austineightregister4 жыл бұрын
Can you remember its registration Kenny?
@kennyscott10894 жыл бұрын
Austineightregister No not at all. This was in Australia anyway.
@richH16254 жыл бұрын
I'll bet that wasn't his own car. !! ;)
@Austineightregister4 жыл бұрын
Most probably not. :-)
@user-tx2sm1bx4d13 күн бұрын
Can you fix a electronic delco to a ke 30 car
@jjmcrosbie2 жыл бұрын
Sadly, neither cars nor the lakes look like that today. And all on a little 850 side-valve motor. Let's see those spoilt clever-dicks in Porsches and Mercs negotiate such conditions! No way.
@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
NAY lad---think of all those paint chips, would cost more than the Austin s worth, to repair