Check out. Sam's investment staring Stanley Holloway, it's an advertising feature for the Austin big seven

To a tenth of a millimeter

@@guyjonson6364 UK was still on the Imperial System, British Govt did not endorse the Metric System till 1965.

Interesting to see exactly how the bodywork was assembled

These craftsmen may have shuffled of this mortal.,but these skills are still out there.,not necessarily in this country..The shaping machine will have been lost ( thank christ ) .... to be replaced by a 5 axis milling machine....and some poor sod attempting to make sense of a C A D package., and scratch their heads to try and decide if the tool path will hit the job fixing..The skills will now be in a very few hands., here., who will have found them through trial and error ., 'cos the apprentice structure that mainly trained those to be found on this film.,will have been swept away., with the., we can buy it from abroad morality of 300 odd toss wads in a mocked up gothic building on a trickle of a river.... just up from Brixton..Oddly.,the skills are needed to fettle a gun barrel or a car.,and it's the means of production are in the hands of other nations.,so are the abilities to win the argument if push comes to shove..300 or so self-aggrandizing bilge merchants will have lost us the argument.,claiming the "free market" works.,while picking ni on 3 times the national average wage out of the public purse., and agreeing that they represent us..Are we only ever to be lead by ponces and donkeys.?

Hi Bob. glad you liked it, those early uploads still get loads of views, in fact they are always in the top ten views, it was all Austin seven stuff then, the channels diversified a bit since then, take care😀

Some of the pre-war heavy equipment used to stamp out panels ‘still’ exist and probably used by JLR in Solihull. Marvelous!!

Haha, I can believe it!

@@Scuba72Chris not sure about the '7', but Austins of this range usually had 4 gears, unlike rivals Morris, which had only 3. I used to have one, and THAT was embarrassing on some hills.

@Fredrik Larsson most likely

Replevideo my dad had a post war 1946 new Austin eight.Upon ascending the Wicklow mountains with my mother and me aboard,my large uncle leapt from the stalling ‘8 and we made it,about 300 ft to the top.My father was annoyed,as he was convinced that his pride and joy for which he had waited until WW2 was over to purchase it,could have carried a small army up the same hill.Unfortunately the post war car wasn’t a patch on the beutyfull car in the excellent video.

Yes they are a bit slow on the hills , there is a hill in Cornwall where Austin sevens would reverse up the hill, because reverse was just that lower ratio than first

In the carbon free world demanded by the gretards they will be watching their screens by firelight , if they are allowed fire that is.

To highlight how easy to drive they were meant to be, a bit patronising really...see even a woman can do it.

@@joolsfreeman4359 And it seems they were only expected or allowed to drive the smaller models...

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They all have names don't they ,once they have names they become one of the family😃

Hi Robert, I'm pleased you enjoyed the film it was one of my earliest uploads👍

The same applies to modern cars - absolutely no originality in design. Remove the badge and it's hard to tell one from another.

@@smudger671 very true. Just another boring eurobox.

The box-on-wheels design, interestingly enough, allows enough space to fit people inside. Form follows function.

a different crazy now

When I started work back in the early 70's it was pretty common for tradesmen (especially older ones) to wear a tie with overalls.

I started work in 1977 as a sheet metal worker and most of the old boys wore ties and shoes that gleamed , different generation then but boy they knew their stuff. I learnt so much from talented blokes as they were and ended up in the same trade fo 40 years.

@Iain Botham look closer, there is a massive heat sink on either side of the weld. this both clamps the steel down and prevents the steel from heating across the panel which creates distortion. As a restorer I wish I could such a thing everyday.

Really? Where do you think the mahogany came from to make the patterns?

To be hoped they kept the patterns safe somewhere, post brexit we may need them to kick start a new car industry.

@@davis7099 The OP said 'all British sourced materials', I was correcting his error. Mahogany used to make moulds and for trimming cars would have come from the tropics of S America - it doesn't grow in the UK. Plywood, when used, would typically contain tropical hardwood. Whether it was manufactured in the UK or imported in the 30s I don't know. The ash used for bodywork would, I imagine, be sourced in the UK although there was a lot of timber imported as the first world war had accounted for a lot of domestic woodland. The OP seemed to me to be heading down the track of things being better in the old days because it was all British made stuff - that just isn't true. And of course we can expect a significant number of people making those Austins to be foreign born.

Bob Bowling Yes but we won’t be kick starting a new car industry post brexit. I can assure you. You need skilled people, a supply chain, deep pockets for R&D, political will, long term plans and huge available investment. All of which the UK has lacked for decades. We re a second rate country which will soon be made all too clear.

@@davis7099 There was a thing called The British Empire as I recall. Just sayin'....

They made what the public wanted , when the ruby was introduced lord Austin was upset that the days of the big chrome radiator had gone, but realised that they had to move foreward, but as you say it was another 20 years before we in Britain started wanting more style in our cars.

@@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 Yeah, but here in North America, I can only think of the post war cars that were stodgy and had no appeal as well....until the beginning of the 50's...that's when things got curvy and nice and low. Here's some trivia....do you know why Chrysler products kept the "cab roof line" of their cars higher up than the Fords and GM cars...it was to allow people that wore hats to get more headroom....true story..

Yes I can believe that, the American influence in styling did not start filtering in here untill the late fifties, we then started getting cars with Finn,s and chrome, the fords going more American only smaller, Austin's on the other hand turned to the Italian,s with the Farina range, it made the old styles go out of fashion overnight.

@@jackflashvintagemotoring7586 It's worth noting that the Austin A30 (and I think the A40 Somerset) had an Italian designer working on it in the very early 1950s. A clay prototype of a proposed new Austin car was produced in 1939 - it took styling cues from the then American designs and looked very similar to the Austin Devon that eventually followed in 1947. Obviously the war held it up. Ford UK cars also emulated American design in the 1930s, albeit scaled down in size, e.g. the Ford V8 Pilot. The general lagging behind the USA by 5 to 10 years continued for some time, until the 1970s, when the USA started to emulate some European design trends and styling.

This happened with motorbikes too, engines designed in the 1930s used in some 50s bikes, but it was transport and we needed it outdated or not. as too designers, I remember Farina coming in to do the A40 and Westminster's.