Holiday Traffic Jams (1968)

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10 жыл бұрын

London.
HOLIDAY TRAFFIC JAMS.
Southend Road. Var. good shots of holiday type traffic jams at a roundabout on the Southend Rd. Cars, buses, motorbikes, scooters and coaches are seen. Most vehicles carry families. Many of the shots could be anywhere. VS "Southend" signposts. MS Group of teenagers hitch hiking. Two young men on a tandem. Kids on a go-cart. A horse and cart with women and children riding. Another horse-drawn 'Whitbread' Brewery cart carries passengers.
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@Harrypatchable 3 жыл бұрын

Cars were so much more characterful back then when I was 13 years old. Nice to see there were lovely shapely cars from the 1950s still on the go then,including the odd FX3 black taxi !

@samsum3738 3 жыл бұрын

The last FX3 taxi came off the road in that year . First introduced in 1948 . My father began as a London cab driver in 1937 .

@paulstimpson8373 Жыл бұрын

First part of this is Gallows Corner before the fly over was built. Plough Pub long gone (not in picture except part of the sign). Nice to see how this all looked in the old days.

@rodrj2105 3 жыл бұрын

a time where different makes/models of car didn't look all the same

@brianfearn4246 3 жыл бұрын

It amazing how small family cars were back then!

@Senna-xi1gr 3 жыл бұрын

Everywhere is a traffic jam today. Looks ok back then.👍🇬🇧

@weaponofmassconstruction1940 4 жыл бұрын

Every coach in this video is filled with the characters from the Carry On movies 😆

@andynixon2820 3 жыл бұрын

About this time my cockney grandma was a tea lady at ' Balls ' plastic factory in Bilericay. That's another carry on film waiting to be made.

@brucedanton3669 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for this from the year I was born so too?!

@paultanker5606 Жыл бұрын

OMG,so many different types of Cars back then, not like now when they all seem the same

@jibjab351 3 жыл бұрын

When cars had character unlike the boring all the same crap boxes we get in 2021

@paulbain9262 4 жыл бұрын

Look how many men have shirt and ties on, marvelous 👍

@TheResi42 Жыл бұрын

Crazy how nowaday it's just a weekday morning rush hour, except your turn the boulevard into a 6 lane motorway.

@andybigbs9466 3 жыл бұрын

Great seeing the original 60’s Essex mods On their scooters at 2:28 👍

@tangerinedream7211 2 ай бұрын

Very rare coach indeed, the Bedford VAL/ Harrington bodywork 4 wheels at the front. The exact model in the Italian job .

@peterjones2761 Жыл бұрын

Wow, great video, look at all the old clasdic cars. Anybody notice the little squirt, leaning on dash board sucking his thumb - 1:23 😂

@donweigel6337 4 жыл бұрын

Nice to see British made cars

@tomschaffner9704 4 жыл бұрын

Ugliest cars on the planet.🤪🤪🤪🤪

@toonmag50 4 жыл бұрын

@@tomschaffner9704 dankeshone ve Germans tricked you in ze 1960's, so now our sheisse cars are sold to ze stupid Tommies in ze millions and zer are no British cars Arschloche

@stephmill8547 4 жыл бұрын

I realize now why the British motor industry vanished. We didn't half show the world how to build garbage !

@glen1555 4 жыл бұрын

Watched it carefully and spotted 4 foreign cars. Mercedes, VW Beetle, Panhard and a Citroen

@manofweed1 3 жыл бұрын

@@glen1555 And a Skoda. At about 2-30 on the roundabout.

@charlesyoungblood1402 3 жыл бұрын

Love these and thanks for sharing .

@bertus161057 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful motors then

@samsum3738 3 жыл бұрын

Fords , Austins , Vauxhalls , Morris . All British built , all nearly gone .

@peterjones2761 Жыл бұрын

All bought out my foreign companies and then wiped out, good plan to get rid of the competition.

@chrischandler833 3 жыл бұрын

Every car, British made . . . until an angular oddity, behind an Anglia 105E, at 1:00 . . ? Then, at 1:50, on the roundabout, a Chevrolet ? Later, a Mercedes 190, VW Beetle, Skoda 1000 MB, Renault Dauphine, and a parked Saab 96. Have I missed any more ? But mainly, let's just celebrate the nostalgia of seeing all those pre-rustproofed vehicles, from whatever marque or nation . . ?

@nickcooper3716 3 жыл бұрын

Ford Galaxie

@MrStr8den Жыл бұрын

Not sure on the exact models, but I did see a Simca, Saab and a VW Beetle...

@christophernunn943 Жыл бұрын

Strange how times have changed, nearly all the vehicles are driven by men.

@hobsonjs 3 жыл бұрын

Love the mods at 2:30. Wouldn't be a bank holiday without them.

@peterward3965 Жыл бұрын

At 0:57 / 0:58 on the right could be a 1947 / 48 Singer super twelve drophead about 20 years old then. A guy in shades on the left in a MK1 cortina is giving it a once over.

@donsolaris8477 4 жыл бұрын

The Ford Transit van looks like the most modern vehicle there !

@chrischandler833 Жыл бұрын

There was a white "E reg" Vauxhall Victor 101, approaching the junction . . . (1967)

@davedoubledecks2284 4 жыл бұрын

Those Anglia vans are as rare as hens' teeth now.

@stephenborsbey4350 5 жыл бұрын

cant believe so many old cars were still on the road in 1968.

@manofweed1 4 жыл бұрын

Err, they were quite new in 68.

@billcobbett9259 4 жыл бұрын

People could run their cars for longer these days if they weren't so obsessed with having the latest model and impressing the neighbours

@DJ_Dopamine 4 жыл бұрын

My father has driven his Volvo V40 for almost 20 years now. It needs the odd part replacing here and there, but that's to be expected.

@handsoffmycactus2958 4 жыл бұрын

They kind of look the same to me

@citizen1163 4 жыл бұрын

@@billcobbett9259 Plus you could repair them yourself unlike now. My dad maintained his immaculate car himself from 1964 til he died in 1977. Ppl didn't have to go into debt either to buy a car bc plenty of reasonably priced second hand cars.

@mr-wx3lv 4 жыл бұрын

Back then, you could tell what car was coming along by the sound of the engine. Couldn't do that now...

@500yamahaxt 4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was just me, But i was deadly at doing that

@Car_and_classic_lover 4 жыл бұрын

Iam 14 and spebd a lot of time around the classic car community and is nice to see iam not the only one

@brianfearn4246 3 жыл бұрын

Quite a few Vauxhall hc . Hb victors as well as some hilmam minx and mk 1 courtiners. Did a spot a Hillman imp. And a commor truck..

@southwest3671 3 жыл бұрын

Reliant Robin down slope: ding-ding-ding-ding........

@brianfearn4246 3 жыл бұрын

How things have changed. No seat belts, no crash helmet , hand signals from a pillion passenger, everyone travelling at a reasonable speed.

@fedupwelsh7211 Жыл бұрын

And at 0.37 seconds a woman in the passenger seat is holding a toddler on her lap. No seat belts for either of them. And I think the reason the speed is so low is because they are all approaching a roundabout. Give me modern day safety please.

@neiloflongbeck5705 Жыл бұрын

And more killed and injured per 10,000 persons than today.

@heathstjohn6775 3 жыл бұрын

Have a lovely time. Please, please come back safely; please, please come back; come back; back; please!....

@lw3646 3 жыл бұрын

Cars were on the whole smaller back then.

@billjackson4703 3 жыл бұрын

Cars were smaller, As were the people in them.

@johnbeaven8951 3 ай бұрын

@@billjackson4703 Before McDonalds arrived and now most Brits resemble Billy Bunter and so do their vehicles.

@Ralph2 4 ай бұрын

Definitely Suggs driving the Zephyr at 1:00 !😆 How sad am I that I know the make and model of every single car there. Today I couldn't name one in ten they are cookie cutter clones.

@MrAlwaysBlue 3 жыл бұрын

That traffic problem was cleverly solved by a pandemic

@sarahlouise7163 3 ай бұрын

argh! look at those kids in the front on their mother's lap - one of them is leaning on the dashboard 😆

@vulgivagu 3 жыл бұрын

Dear old Corsair was a nice looking car, had one with the 2 ltr engine . Dagenham dustbins all rusted away though. My favourite Ford at that time was the Zodiac Executive, straight 6 engine and Connolly leather seats . Had one for work and often managed 100 up the M1 at night, virtually totally deserted of traffic then. Now we have smart motorways designed to reduce traffic by killing the people on them. Progress !

@morrisminor56 5 жыл бұрын

I was 5 then,cars were more interesting back then

@hughrainbird43 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, they kept on breaking down!

@g.h.t.6881 4 жыл бұрын

@@hughrainbird43 but at least a lot of people could manage some simple repairs. With a small box of tools.

@Car_and_classic_lover 4 жыл бұрын

Ikr iam 14 and think that

@racecardriverrr4201 3 жыл бұрын

remember when you needed a toolbox and a manual to fix a car, and not have to be an electronic engineer? Or when cars were small? Or when they weren't funeral colours? I dont; born in the wrong generation haha

@jourwalis-8875 4 ай бұрын

No Citroen or any french car whatsoever! But I saw a Volkswagen and a Saab!

@molossergirl2 5 жыл бұрын

I was 18 years of age! Spotted a Mod riding a scooter, I went through the Mod phase, nylon mac, Hush Puppies with red laces, ski pants, white T-Shirt with stick on black initials, LOL, and short Mia Farrow hair-cut. Not sure where the time has gone?

@citizen1163 4 жыл бұрын

Same!

@janethigginson7349 3 жыл бұрын

i was the same hush puppies lol

@peterjones2761 Жыл бұрын

Are Hush Puppies that old?

@user-pj8uj7wx3s 2 ай бұрын

That old truck is the same size as present day cars

@Lamvesp 5 жыл бұрын

Cool.

@jeffk19 Жыл бұрын

Just like the two boys at 1:23 faces up against the windshield and no seatbelts, could have been my family here in the US back then.

@franksmith6637 Жыл бұрын

In the days when everyone owned there cars😀

@southwest3671 3 жыл бұрын

2:45 As if their bus had broken down on the way back to the mental Asylum.

@southwest3671 3 жыл бұрын

In a black suit on holidays...... People cannot be bothered to dress appropriately for weddings and funerals anymore these days. No tattoos back then, just decent looking folks going about.

@richardcummins5465 5 ай бұрын

99% of all vehicles manufactured in U K. What a travesty!

@davidmichaels8934 Жыл бұрын

These pictures take me back to the Good Old Sixties! Try and see a non British made car in the film? No? That's because Britain was a giant World Class car maker, exporting the World over, especially sports cars to America, but sadly once the Japanese and German cars were brought into the country, the home based makers, were losing their market share, and were unable to compete on quality and costs, even worse when Nissan Toyota and Honda were allowed to build huge factories in Britain, so ensuring that the government of the day, would benefit from support from the workers on General Election Day! I should give a mention to the French and Italian car makers as well, as Purgeot had a factory in Coventry for a number of years, if a film was made today, at the same place, you would have to be quick to spot a British made car, very sad indeed!

@rockabyebaby6111 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing sight... all those antique cars.. fully restored.. are they for sale??

@vickielawless Жыл бұрын

Is that Charlie Croker at 0.23 en route to do a job in Italy in his 6 wheel Bedford coach?!

@GiovanniZizzo Жыл бұрын

Ciao!

@listershat 4 жыл бұрын

Jams? This is the school run with classic cars to look at instead of penny farthing blobs. Not even rush hour. Bliss... :)

@citizen1163 4 жыл бұрын

There were rush hours back then. Now every hour is rush hour.

@g-r-a-e-m-e- 4 жыл бұрын

exactly, the title is misleading

@danton1333 3 жыл бұрын

You drive on left ! I forgot it !

@JohninRosc 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder what time of year it was - the trees all seem to be without growth yet all of East London appeared to be Southend bound.

@hughrainbird43 4 жыл бұрын

Like Blackpool, did Southend have "illuminations" to extend the season into the autumn, when the evenings grow shorter?

@zzcurve1141 4 жыл бұрын

Good observation, it could only be the Easter holiday ( April 14th in 1968). The next national holiday after that would be whitsun in 1968 , 27th May. Trees would be in bloom then.