Probably why it took so long to catch the Yorkshire ripper, must have been the look of the day for truck drivers.

... and not the name of a short drink!

It's Yorkshire tea now..

The tyres in those days were terrible as well, but still they managed to "mostly" get through snowball earth ... Drivers nowadays, one snowflake and the whole of the England is gridlocked.

did they have snow in the bible?

Agree When we built roads When we knew how to deal with fucking NIMBYS These boomers stopping progress

Your now in the day where men can be women and women can be men 😂

Range rovers are actually the same today as they were then. Junk.

Always have a soft spot for a Range Rover classic and P38 as from 90 to 05.i was responsible for tooling approval and dimensional Engineer reports of the Landrover Aluminium V8 block and head and the TD5 head but not block that along with the V8 the 5 cylinder diesel went in the P38 Rangey.

I remember watching this when it was first aired and it was a real insight how the motorway police worked (next to no omnipresent documentary crews with small cameras in those days) Funnily enough I wasn’t in the slightest bit ‘triggered’ of in need of a ‘safe space’ after viewing.

Agreed

Ah yes, the good old days of drink/driving and significantly more deaths on the roads than now. Police have a significantly more difficult job these days thanks to funding cuts. 74 GMB officers dedicated to the motorways of the city in 1979. That'll be 8 now.

Me aswell.

@@StuartOliver83 Seconded

Well, the reason we have H&S so pedantic is because back in the day people were f*cking idiots who clearly didn't have common sense

​@@JD-eq4dplike what?

@@JD-eq4dp They were police officers during the height of Organised crime and the IRA Troubles. They dealt with the same shit, with less equipment.

That is soo cool,I had the ambulance model,begged mum long time till she bought it.

I was 6 aswell 😊

And he wasn't given a ticket for stopping to help either. All that man would get today would be a Politically correct Bo11ocking. A sodding great fine. And told to F### off, mind your own business, and stop interferring.

He probably learnt it in the war.

they were speaking dutch not german but still pretty amazing considering people who speak english as a first language are not exactly famous for being able to speak anything else i'd imagine that guy knowing both languages and being there at the right time was pretty one in a million odds.

@@NoirL.A. Even I'm late... the driver speaks Swiss-German.

Well put! Completely agree

You mean when they could do what they wanted? Arseholes the lot of em..👎

@@Roscoe.P.Coldchain in your opinion.. no need for obscenities

Just watched that bit on Mr.Yates,speaks a bit like Fred Diana and looks a touch like Robert Lindsay.The Bobby who was dealing needs to lose a stone or two lol

I’d say we’ve regressed, not progressed as a society since this film. Such a sorry state of affairs now.

@@tba8241 He does sound a lot like Fred Dibnah, I noticed that too. I also thought the police Range Rover was going to plough into the stricken Cortina!

Thanks for posting, think this is my 3rd or 4th watching of this and i'll keep an eye out for Mr Yates shortly 👍🙂

you start appreciating traffic cops when your children 'get their licence'...had a traffic cop in the family too

You were on it weren’t you dark blue Morris van!

I was actually on it, right on the top when they closed it, I was on the westbound side just before the Scammonden bridge crosses over. The scariest thing for me was when an Artic was on my offside, he was trying to move forward and the back end of his (empty) trailer started to slide to the left, the wind was that strong. I had visions of being stuck under his deck and squashed. The surface was just a sheet of Ice. At one point I got out of the car and the wind knocked me clean off my feet. It was bloody cold and, it was genuinely scary.

Believe me, it wasn't nice wearing them.

@@bobbelsekwol i bet mate

My dad was a firefighter from 1975 to 2006 with greater Manchester fire and rescue service

What Bloody Hard Shoulder ? The Hard shoulder was always planned as an emergency refuge. Turning them into Running Lanes has removed that planned place of safety.

@@philyew3617 I feel your pain. I know, it's wishful thinking on my part to expect common sense solutions these days.

Good riddance.

@@swaneknoctic9555 Prick

A @ swane knoctic. You are a collosal bell end!

@@flalingbashers2957 This comment has been reported for the use of vile language. If you are going to react to my reply please find the decency to use a more educated and meaningful response. I am tired of replying to nothing but common imbeciles who lack the intelligence to come up with something more original.

@@swaneknoctic9555 here is a response go and fuck off u dirty gobshite

Doesn’t help when they employ mere foetuses with no common sense or life experience.

🤣🤣

I'll smoke to that, a thankless job we would all miss if they weren't there!

grim up north lol, no, it`s just you shandy drinking southerners cant hack the cold.

I agree, there seems to be way too much aggression and confrontation these days which is sad. Having lived and worked then though, I am so very glad our attitudes to personal safety have improved since then -- I saw injury and death in the workplace because of poor attitudes to safety.

And we all carried licence and insurane

Now,the worst

When it hadn’t broken down of course. 😊

These series one Range Rover cars were EPIC. 100% Agree

"We didn't want that car" XD

Proof that life is comedy!

I couldn’t help but laugh. Here comes back up. No no they’ve F@&£ed it.

Ambulances then were basically just buses to the hospital for a lot of injuries. They had very basic equipement and little expertise in treating the seriously injured.

@@Gecko.... They were mini hospitals compared to the ambulances of 30 years before (of which I coincidently have an interest in!), but yes they were essentially vessels for hospital transport. I was just remarking on the calamity of the driving!

If this film is anything to go by, they were all Marinas and cortinas back then

@@mickw7360 They were both very big sellers to company fleets back then...

Yep, and even rescued a guy’s umbrella!

Yeah now the cops are right in figuring what kind of revenue there gonna make up and get out of you, no deescalate, they escalate to get you for nothing there, then they call the wreckers and sit down and tally up the revenue they gotout of poeple, no more serve and protect, its harass and collect

looked to me like they really ran those range rovers into the ground doing what they did with em back in them days, don't reckon them Rovers made it past 10 years of hard graft.

I was a traffic officer in the 1990 for 10 years before I became a detective. Our top priority was to look after the injured , investigate and to remove obstructions . We just dragged things out of the way with Range Rovers and tow ropes. This was to keep traffic moving. Nowadays you see the Highways officer sitting behind broken cars waiting for tow trucks that are stuck in the traffic jams. Ged

We drag/push broken down vehicles onto the hard shoulder every day, off busier motorways than we had in the 70s

So was the public in general. Much more grounded and with common sense.

This was before I was born nice to see the old emergency vehicles and police working as a team not like today

@@southwest3671 i have to agree with you, everybody has changed, police, general public, just society altogether, in such a short time really.

@@paulreed480 Thanks to the invention of (anti) social media. As thumbs went up, moods came down.

@@southwest3671 It goes a lot deeper than that. Social media has ruined people's attention spans (that along with other on-demand content sites). People are more entitled, thin-skinned, and not grounded in reality, among other issues. We're in a period of cultural decay because an era of decadence (peacetime and abundance of everything we could possibly need and more) created large swathes of weak men. Inevitably, things are crumbling around us and many people have the stupidity to think we are moving forwards because they saw something scientific that looked cool on some viral KZfaq video. Lots of people are choosing long careers in pointless fields instead of starting families causing our below-replacement birth rate and a lack of fulfillment in young people - they try to fill the void with hedonism and fake spirituality (think 20-something women taking up astrology and a laughably watered-down version of Buddhism where their "meditation" is interrupted every 20 seconds because they keep getting Snapchat notifications). The police covered up massive grooming gang scandals all around the country for decades because they were too scared of being labeled as racist - so they let 10,000s of native British girls suffer repeatedly because they didn't want to be accused of something (and then, for the most part, got away with it and had their records thoroughly scrubbed from existence). I've seen young people who champion astroturfed movements such as Extinction Rebellion and claim to care deeply about the environment, but will then waste away their days smoking weed, littering in public, and being a general drain on society as a whole. The West in general is falling apart, so the next half-century will be an interesting one, to say the least - things can change a lot in just a couple decades. I'm sure that will seem like a melodramatic conclusion to most people, but once you see how rotten the foundations of our society have become, you too will realize it's only a matter of time before various parts of it start collapsing.

"Smashin pet,and you?"😄

Considering everything I hear about current Jaguar Land Rover vehicles it's a good job!

We used to have V8 diesel Range Rovers on CMPG. They were not reliable.

I particularly enjoyed the ambulance driver crashing into the parked police car on the motorway at 37:39.

39:40

@@rjs198585 Yeah. but "we didn't want that car"

And a thick mustache.

DangerousDavies2008 surprised to see Hi vis

Paul Simpson when did that change

@@s125ish it's got to be around this time, I've see videos of mobile doctors not long after this

@@michaelgrace1298 One of my schoolmates got run down by a van. The two policemen who attended put him in the back of their panda car and drove him to the local A&E: no first aid, no checks for broken bones, no nothing.

Any vehicle with a first aid kit can be called an ambulance. I think ambulances of this era had oxygen and and a ventilator and that's about it. I think trauma doctors would go out on certain jobs but that was on London only I think.

No neck brace or support of any kind. One false move from any of them and his life would have changed forever .

Total agree But now a days everyone hogs the middle lane It's so annoying

It’s so sad to see. This country has been destroyed sadly.

Only the wrong type of leaf

@@Retro_Rich a wet leaf

@@brianbadonde9039 Bello

POB. 🎓

Yep , health and safety has gone nuts these day, no sense.

@@damian-795 Too many enthusiastic coopers causing life changing injuries me thinks!!

@@milesfinch It's more down to better understanding of mechanism of injury and traumatic injuries, plus the fact that vehicles are a fair bit quicker these days... There weren't many vehicles on the road back then that could break 100mph, now pretty much everything, even your gran's motorised shopping trolley, can. People crash faster and harder these days...

@@gosportjamie yes but cars back then had no real safety I crashed a e rev fiat panda at 10mph complete write off bet cops went to some horrific crashes then

I know what you mean

T’raffic Cops

A radio is a mobile device

Oh turn it in will you. I suggest you spend a couple if days with the motorway cops of now in wintertime on the same stretch of motorway. I think you'll find that nothing much has changed for these poor souls who have to police these horrid stretches of the M62 in winter.

I was born on 21st December 1978. My father didn't get to the hospital in time because of the bad weather.

A primitive rescue tender, but totaly agree ,bloody great vehicle

@@mortgagewizard40 According to the DVLA website it lived until 1995

Its a Carmicheal conversion, also used at airports and by the RAF.

Have to agree, a copper was someone you feared and respected. Nowadays, they just get hassled and cheeked back to, adults and kids. Love them Range Rovers though.

soft police service? tell that to the 1000s of innocent people who have been on the receiving end of police violence and incompetence

@@Jack-hg1hq I agree that certain abuses of power do happen, deliberate and by mistake. However, a cuff around the ear from a copper was something you dare not tell your mum and dad about because you would have got another. Many of the lads I grew up with would have gone the wrong side of the law if it wasn't for community policing, talking to people and yes...a cuff and a bollocking. Children nowadays, do lack respect-foul language is the norm, treating people and property with contempt. They say that upbringing is key and it isn't the job of the police or teachers but parents to bring their children up and know right from wrong...that is true. But, when you have kids having no parental control then they just run amok around towns etc and misbehave at school. Kids with no seat belts on, mobile phones glued to their ears-I see this everyday-no respect for the law.

@@eddiesolo1971 yeah pretty much, I'm 21 and are ashamed of my generation, don't understand how they talk or act etc. When they act out they get a free therapy session and some more money. A slap would cost the tax payer a lot less and be far more effective. I now live in fear of going outside from the gangs, moped thief's, knife crime etc. And I'm young and healthy. Imagine what that's like for an old lady. Howevrr The police in Derbyshire where I live direct the power in the wrong direction. They spend all their money making sure no-one does 51 in a 50 yet allow gang fights in our towns. That's not a police force I can get behind I'm afraid

@@Jack-hg1hq I do feel for the young nowadays, you keep yourself safe and away from gangs hanging around.

You poor guy. No amount of money woukd make me drive thus journey to work everyday. I'd rather work in Morrisons in Bradford on £8 an hour than go through that everyday.

I drove from Shaw (Oldham) to Leeds commuting. Never seen the weather as bad as this but have known it to snow. It's a great road apart from the horrible traffic!

I totally agree. Shows what clowns the police are today.

I was in infant school at that time and even in East Anglia the winter was bad, with drifting snow. Nowadays I live in the central south (Berkshire) and the weather is barely ever anything more than temperate. If it does ever snow, it is generally clear after a couple of days and it never gets anywhere near as bad as it does up north...! At the moment I can only conclude that this is a good point, as medically that much cold would probably dramatically shorten my life...!!!

cut and shuts maybe?🤔

Bloody hell! 😆

They were right then, it can be fixed!

That was when cars were cars

@@CJ-zt5mr mine was made 1971 still going

@@annpartoon5300 O yeah it will be it will still be going in another 30 year's

More interesting and fun though!