London to Bath in a MK II Jaguar in 1963 with George Eyles, F231

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A Journey from Castrol House in Marylebone Road London, to the City of Bath in a MKII Jaguar in 1963. Advanced motorist George Eyles takes us through London, out over the Hammersmith Flyover (an area which has really changed a lot) and follows the A4 West onto Reading and a newly built section of the M4. Later he passes through Newbury, Hungerford, Chippenham, Malborough, Calne, and ends at Bath. It is fascinating to see how all these towns and roads looked back then.
I have previously posted a 16mm film projected version of this here: • London to Bath in a MK...
However, I thought it worth recapturing this in a digital scanner (2k-ish capture, 2048*1536). God knows what it is after YT processing, but this version does seem a little clearer. Thanks to the KZfaqrs that kindly offered their opinions regarding the quality of this capture. The digital scan seems to provide more detail, but at the expense of the range of colour and tone (these are crushed a little). But, there is no harm in having an alternative.
No credits appear in the film other than to George Eyles and Castrol.

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@kjh789az Ай бұрын

Confirms what we all know. (1) It was sunnier in ' 63 than it is now. (2) You can fit an entire jazz band into a Jag, old stylee ...Thanks for sharing.

@willhamlyn1908 7 күн бұрын

All the way to Bath and not a single angry Audi on his tail. Joyous. All down to a sharp trouser crease and very shiny shoes.

@JohnDavis-ed5sg Ай бұрын

So glad I was able to experience a time when driving was a fun adventure, roads were policed in a wiser manner, and cars were friendly and easy to fix. I always loved driving but over the last few years of cameras, aggression, jams and potholes it became a pain. Now I'm retired and live in the countryside and driving these quiet roads without pressure to do things is fun again.

@maxustaxus Ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more...I would say more...but this is YT in 2024.

@jokermaan1 12 күн бұрын

Cars may have been easier to fix, but then they needed a lot more fixing!

@HaggardPillockHD 2 күн бұрын

@@jokermaan1 uhh, no. Cars are practically computers on wheels now, and prone to many more defects

@JonDingle 25 күн бұрын

In 1966 I was born. Looking at these videos, I can see life was FAR better post WW2 up until about 2006. Since then it has deteriorated to the utterly horrible world we live in today!

@nigelgb8408 24 күн бұрын

I guess car ownership and overall population was much lower so roads were quieter, I'll give you that. I'm not sure everyone would feel life was better though, say if you were black, homosexual or a woman with ambitions to do anything more with your life than marry and produce children.

@sg-yq8pm 21 күн бұрын

"life was FAR better post WW2" - idiotic ignorant comment of the week winner! Congratulations Jon! All you rose coloured glasses twits in these comment sections wouldn't last 5 days in the 50's/60's before begging to return to the present.

@WONGLER 19 күн бұрын

So true ! Same here in Germany , we all miss this time

@mandst5466 12 күн бұрын

Society has been irreversibly changed by the media. The internet SHOULD have made us better “drivers” through life, but unfortunately it appears not. Wow ! Don’t we sound like old farts 😂

@mandst5466 12 күн бұрын

@@nigelgb8408All good points, you COULD of course be black, gay and a woman but you just couldn’t shout about it.

@artistglyn Ай бұрын

I lived and drove in London in the 1970s. I worked in Nottingham place, just off Baker St. I could park all day for free and drive home to Baldock in 40 minutes. Happy days !!!

@jasonantigua6825 Ай бұрын

Good luck with that one today!

@gregsmith1070 Ай бұрын

Bliss I work just off Baker Street, and use a bike

@Sam_Green____4114 28 күн бұрын

Train now would be much quicker !! Those days a smelly diesel but electric from about 78 ( To Royston ! )

@jokermaan1 12 күн бұрын

I was a driving instructor in London in 1971, working from BSM in Kensington High Street.

@exk6 2 күн бұрын

I was just thinking that, when I lived in Fulham in the early 80s, anyone with a car (I had a beautiful navy blue TR6) expected to be able to park in front of their house. Better days!

@vancecalvin4042 11 ай бұрын

As a young American boy, my Dad bought a 59 Jaguar . We moved from Woking, Surrey in 1960 to Exhibition Road and lived in a Flat.. Interesting times in London.. I went to an American school out in Bushy Park. As i look back. I certainly miss those wonderful days.. Brits loved Americans back then

@brianhepke7182 Ай бұрын

That has to be an off-the-cuff remark surely?.. don't you think we like Americans these days? Your determination in what you want to achieve is admirable. What one might call the "American Dream". Drive sometimes is misconstrued as being pushy and big headed.... by those that don't have it themselves. The Americans that I have been in contact with have all been very gracious.

@s.tranger1074 Ай бұрын

At least you know what it's like to drive on the correct side of the road!!!

@Tim091 11 күн бұрын

@@AlistairClark99 you speak for yourself mate! Try being married to one...

@buddhastaxi666 22 сағат бұрын

My Aunty married a guy from Florida in 1956. We found Americans to be naiive, prone to bs about their wealth and status, had alarming tastes in jackets, thought the world started and ended between New York and LA, older Yanks still had a grudge against King George and women came from the US to get free abortions.

@naturalroyalflush 24 күн бұрын

Beautiful Jaguar.

@alanlancaster3703 Ай бұрын

Good old days never see them again god I miss it 2024 depressing day with all what’s going on I’m so glad I was born in the 1950 lovely days 😊

@ambivalentonion2620 Ай бұрын

This is what you and your generation took from me

@jamesprice4647 Ай бұрын

dentistry hurt

@JazzFunk22 Ай бұрын

Good old fooooking days 🎶🎶....💂

@Sam_Green____4114 28 күн бұрын

Yes this is why I'm voting reform and why I voted Leave !

@ambivalentonion2620 28 күн бұрын

@@Sam_Green____4114 it's something but there's no political solution it will just be subverted

@andyelliott8027 18 күн бұрын

" I'm in the correct gear, nicely pressed trousers, shirt and tie, sports jacket" 😃

@Steve-Cross 17 күн бұрын

Oh dear boy. You wear a cravat with a sports jacket. 😂

@Rufusdos 7 күн бұрын

Not to mention the well polished Oxfords. 👞

@exk6 2 күн бұрын

No polyester in view!

@acjdf Ай бұрын

Attaches Institute of Advanced Motorists badge, pulls out with eyes firmly on centre console. Skims cyclist. Bullies car ahead. Ah, the glory days!

@flyingcod14 22 күн бұрын

"Driving demands tolerance." Next sentence. "I've got a lot of speed here and I intend to use some of it." 😆

@johnwood2684 20 күн бұрын

Totally different to the attitude todays drivers have to cyclists and pedestrians. Even with the M4 motorway, for long distance road traffic, Bath is still one of life's cycling experiences.

@davemagick6739 10 күн бұрын

Old fellow stopped on the outskirts of Weybridge by a policeman in 1974. “You were doing 100 right down the middle of the road! What the hell you playing man?!” The driver, indignant, hauls out his license and says “Look right here sir! It says ‘Tear down the dotted line’ and that’s exactly what I’m doing!”

@martinmcdonald4207 10 ай бұрын

Splendid show old sport. The days when driving was jolly fun. I was one!

@MC-bu6ez 25 күн бұрын

Wonderful film, the presentation is fabulous, the narration is excellent, a bygone era, who could have predicted that the entire road system around London would some day be the world's greatest mobile car park.

@robharding5345 15 күн бұрын

Beam me back Scotty.We had it so good back then, And we have clearly lost our way.

@andrewwturner 6 күн бұрын

I'm really pleased that MK2 Jaguar still exists. It appears to be 'living' in Melbourne.

@Thereishope664 Ай бұрын

Flashing your headlights and sounding your horn to force someone over.....a great way to get involved in a road rage incident today for sure.

@johnkeepin7527 Ай бұрын

Remember that there would have been no speed limit on that brand new M4 then. There weren’t any until 22/12/1965.

@simonf8902 Ай бұрын

Gorgeous silver Jag with red leather.

@simonf8902 Ай бұрын

Fine turn of speed though. However. Some of this advice and driving behaviour is still highly relevant.

@simonf8902 Ай бұрын

No follow me Claud either.

@simonf8902 Ай бұрын

Red road rager. Nothing new here.

@stevenspencer-turner7808 11 ай бұрын

What an absolute gentleman of the road, sounds like my old driving lnstructor from the 70s

@mentonish Ай бұрын

When you see this film it makes you feel old, I passed the IAM test in 1965.!!!!

@tomsurrey2252 Ай бұрын

1967 for me, hahaha... how they have ruined our roads'!!

@s.tranger1074 Ай бұрын

The you are bloody old (at least 80 I'll bet)

@mentonish Ай бұрын

Not close to 80, but not that young either !

@gregsmith1070 Ай бұрын

Good mates Dad passed in 1947,still drives in London, but not much.

@lenwoodman9442 24 күн бұрын

@@gregsmith1070 IAM test came in 1956.🙂

@Nedchilvs Ай бұрын

What a beautiful country we once had

@Iombardia Ай бұрын

Sure... 🤡

@Nedchilvs Ай бұрын

@@Iombardia What does your comment imply? You think it wasn't better than it is now?

@UnIimited_Power Ай бұрын

It's definitely lost its charm and a lot of its identity sadly. @@Nedchilvs

@ScratchyBaws Ай бұрын

@@Nedchilvs We have a lot of cars and definitely a lot more dinghies nowadays🤣😂

@Nedchilvs Ай бұрын

@@ScratchyBaws Yep and the cars ain't pretty and neither are the people coming over in those boats.

@Deepthought-42 Ай бұрын

Nice to see these empty roads before the M4 was built. They used to be my regular weekly commute. So much has changed including the IAM commentary. Also it now often takes longer to drive the same journey using the motorway.

@dominicallen7839 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff !! I watch this film over and over........just how I remember the roads when I was tiny !! I see there is also a little more footage.

@maxustaxus Жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for the kind comment. I love the past, though its audience in the present inevitably wains...This is more or less all there is of this here. The optics chased the sound in editing, and almost nothing was cut. That you remember some of this is wonderful. We are the moment, and no more than our memories.

@dominicallen7839 Жыл бұрын

@@maxustaxus So true !!

@elelegidosf9707 11 ай бұрын

And I thought people's driving was bad nowadays! But drivers were driving like absolute tools in this film - pulling out on each other, overtaking on blind bends, overtaking into oncoming traffic etc etc. Wow.

@Mortimer50145 8 ай бұрын

Some of the bad driving seems to have been set up - the red Triumph Herald at 15:55, for example. There are two situations when I was quite surprised by Mr Eyles driving: the incident at 8:15 when he repeatedly sounded his horn and flashed his lights to encourage a car to pull over to let him pass came over as aggressive even by today's standards; and he seemed to cut it very fine when overtaking a bus on the wrong side of the road at 15:15.

@unconventionalideas5683 4 ай бұрын

I must agree, but I must further add that he gets awfully close to the turning bicycle at 3:31 for my liking. I think that would be cited today for reckless driving. @@Mortimer50145

@unconventionalideas5683 4 ай бұрын

There was also that cyclist @ about 3:30 or so, whom he became awfully close to before passing. @@Mortimer50145

@Sam_Green____4114 Ай бұрын

I had a suspicion it was staged ! I don't know why . To make the film a bit more interesting ?

@timeluster 28 күн бұрын

@@Sam_Green____4114 The red Triumph was a filming car. You can see it reflected in the Jag during some of the external shots.

@robharding5345 8 күн бұрын

Beautiful journey in a true British Classic car. what more could you want,

@user-go2kw5lr2b Ай бұрын

What a wonderful time in english history. I was born in 1964. I feel jealous of my mum shes 81. I would give up all modern rubbish to be able to go back and live in that time, as an adult. Yes it is always better having wealth, in any time period, but just the social interactions of people were friendly. Born in the wrong time period.😢 Thanks for this glimpse back in Englands past😊

@LeeEnfield-iw3qk Ай бұрын

Yes those were the days, we had a lovely outside toilet, real parky in the winter ..Lol

@user-go2kw5lr2b Ай бұрын

@@LeeEnfield-iw3qk well that was a time that made boys into real men I suppose. Lol

@maxustaxus Ай бұрын

Great post...strange how today, in an age of plenty,...people can have so little of what humans really need.

@johntechwriter 21 күн бұрын

Life is what you make it. Why yearn for a largely fictitious earlier era when you could put that energy into making life - not just yours but others’ too - that little bit better.

@user-go2kw5lr2b 21 күн бұрын

@@johntechwriter sorry you have no dreams of your own. Because I know theres no time machine, but if there was , I would be gone in a heart beat.

@ScratchyBaws Ай бұрын

My friends dad is called George Eyles and he'll be old this year, born 1935. This can't be him because he only ever drove a forklift at Martin Bakers in Denham (Ejector Seat specialists) and now he rides a wee mobility scooter each afternoon when he takes his dog for a walk. I wonder if they were related as the George Eyles i know was from London originally. Very cool video and many thanks

@EE-ui2xt Ай бұрын

He's an advanced driver yet he just pulled out into traffic without checking his blind spot. In fact he was looking down to his left as he moved off!

@Sam_Green____4114 Ай бұрын

Notice in those days there were no central barriers on the motorways ? Drivers doing a U -turn or crossing the central barrier to get to a garage or cafe on the other side , were the cause of many accidents and fatalities in these times !

@alastairward2774 Ай бұрын

No, those days were better and these deaths you suggest never happened. Just going by the other comments suggesting this was all idyllic and without concern.

@Sam_Green____4114 Ай бұрын

@@alastairward2774 Yes they did ! What utter bullshit !

@Pikestnt 26 күн бұрын

Lovely to see the old “Dual carriageway without a clearly defined central reservation”. Hence, the speed limit was 60, not 70. Such roads are almost non existent today but ppl still believe the speed limits on modern dual carriageways is 60 🤔

@johntechwriter 21 күн бұрын

@@Pikestnt And no speed limits on the earliest motorways!

@arthurmee 15 күн бұрын

A lot of wearing of rose-tinted specs in the comments.

@Lucan44.40 Ай бұрын

Fascinating video really brought back early motoring memories. I'm so fortunate to have lived and driven through town and country in that era. Passed my test in 63, and I bought a three year old Morris Minor on HP for two hundred quid, Halcyon days 😂

@jamesprice4647 Ай бұрын

They weren't.

@user-go2kw5lr2b Ай бұрын

I'm jealous, I really am.😊

@bobredsmoke 24 күн бұрын

In 1966 there were 7,985 people killed on Britain's roads. Not so halcyon for them.

@paulmarwood4325 Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful bygone age.

@matrags 10 күн бұрын

What a splendid time capsule.

@lorainemurray433 11 күн бұрын

My dad owned one of these beauties. I remember the lovely red leather seating, and the walnut tables attached to the back of the front seats. As a family, we enjoyed many a happy time driving all over Ireland to our various hotel stays. I recall eight miles to a gallon of petrol!!

@ivanfernyhough3851 12 сағат бұрын

Get out of it,8 miles to the gallon😂i have one of these and it will 22mpg on a decent run.

@user-es2fn1ki4v Ай бұрын

Fascinating to see the old M4 layout with it ending at the A4 roundabout. Explains the crazy J8/9 numbering at Maidenhead today.

@bardo0007 11 күн бұрын

Brilliant sun today 😀

@markiliff 25 күн бұрын

Fascinating footage from when UK roads were killing about 7,000 a year. Now it's

@markgt894 25 күн бұрын

If you consider all the congestion today an improvement.

@markiliff 22 күн бұрын

@@markgt894 OK, so you're one of the 30% who had a car in 1963 and you're sure you wouldn't have been one of the 5,000 a year excess fatalities. Lucky you.

@markgt894 22 күн бұрын

@@markiliff wasn’t alive then.

@adude9882 16 күн бұрын

The worst year was 66.

@phillipecook3227 12 күн бұрын

Almost no one wore seat belts in 1963 and inertia ones were unheard of. The MOT test was only 3 years old. Drink driving was considered normal.

@quiverdog 23 күн бұрын

Great semi aggressive skilled driving tips. I like his style.

@martinherrington9499 10 күн бұрын

The first few miles out of London as far as the “Hemmersmith Flyover” look much as they do today. Beyond that things are quite different. I started driving in the 80s, and the roads, signage and driver behaviour have changed much less in the 40 years since the early 80s than they did in the 20 years from 1963 to 1983.

@MegaTubescreamer Күн бұрын

Excellent driver commentary old chap ! by george i think he`s got it 😇👍

@geoffcrisp7225 Ай бұрын

The commentary was a part of the IAM test at one time. There to understand your thinking and observations by the examiner. I took my test in 1990 and by then it was optional.

@johntechwriter 21 күн бұрын

My dad had a MK II, 3.8 liter I believe, and my favorite 10-year-old place to be was in its passenger seat. He drove at a sporting pace on the near-empty back roads of rural Ontario, but would slow right down as we got close to town. As my dad cautioned me despite my early age, when in town at any moment a little kid could dart out between parked cars. The horrifying prospect of that happening has stayed with me through the years, leaving me not paranoid but on the alert for the unexpected.

@johnparks6596 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant film

@johnmorris6344 Ай бұрын

So.... the IAM suggests we flash twice, then sound our horn if someone is in the outside lane and you want them to move? Wow. That's 6 points these days!! H😂😂

@shauncorless8965 Ай бұрын

I don't know how he concentrated with that bloody music 😅and no filth to catch you speeding 😊

@djidroneadventures4059 Ай бұрын

Yes there was police

@cliffrightmove1527 20 күн бұрын

Brilliant,thank you 👍

@gregsmith1070 Ай бұрын

Love the horn and flashing of lights, not surprised in got a ✌️

@jontallon73 25 күн бұрын

I have no idea why he thinks I'm interested in his politics

@stephenthorpe877 16 күн бұрын

Great days in 60,s so traffic free compared to today very experienced driver we all could learn from him regarding road manners and control

@user-pz1wy7rf6b Ай бұрын

When jags were built with long lasting engines ! Not there latest offerings

@Climpus Ай бұрын

Were those the days when people could spell properly?

@jontibloom6125 Ай бұрын

I remember those 3 laned roads also known as trunk roads. Very very dangerous and I'm sure a lot of people must have ended their lives with a head on smash in the middle lane

@heathstjohn267 Ай бұрын

Most shan't know that the saying ' After you, Claude ', (which was always followed by ' No, after you, Cecil '), was from the '40's radio show ' ITMA ', (which was an abbreviation for ' It's that Man Again '). The ' Man ' was Tommy Handley. Jack Train played Claude, and Horace Percival played Cecil, who were very polite handymen.

@elymental Ай бұрын

Not a pot hole in sight by George golly gosh

@robinburn4974 Ай бұрын

Or a speed bump or even a speed bump with a pothole

@rogerthecabinboy646 28 күн бұрын

Why repair a pothole, when its well within your budget to redefine what a pothole actually is? My council it is a minimum of 4 Inches depth.

@gjmob 11 ай бұрын

Oh spiffing! There's a Tesla with a runaway battery fire. Will have to stay away from that blighter.

@michaelwhite8031 16 күн бұрын

What hoo !

@naturalroyalflush 24 күн бұрын

The authorities always seem to be telling us that things aren’t dangerous, that are and things are dangerous, that aren’t.

@northseawolf 28 күн бұрын

When this was filmed, there were massive plans for a web of motorways around London and most towns and cities across the country. More akin to American freeways with grand junctions that would have eaten up a lot of land. Obviously it didnt take long for resistance to set in. Sadly the destruction of the once great railway network took place despite most of the replacement roads never getting built leading to the 'worst of both worlds' situation that exists up to today.

@fuzzblightyear145 22 күн бұрын

we may have seen the same one, but there was a guy on here did a great YT on those motorway plans. crazy now to think what it woudl have looked like if they were all built

@user-vy4hh4ot2h Ай бұрын

Great film, surprised that the advanced driver didn’t indicate when pulling off into traffic from Castrol house at the start of the journey.

@aztimms Ай бұрын

...or do a shoulder check?

@amraverageproduction5379 Ай бұрын

Trafficator!?!😂

@Uftonwood2 23 күн бұрын

‘Double the clutch.’ Those were the days!

@Derek_S 9 күн бұрын

Double declutch. Used to be for when changing gear on a non syncromesh gearbox. I wouldn't have thought it necessary on that car.

@johnj3577 27 күн бұрын

"This is a very busy road" - me wondering where all the cars are..🤔

@jodaniels1596 7 күн бұрын

15:25 mins in "When you see a chap like that, there`s no excuse for getting involved with him". Very wise words.😅

@christopherwatson9523 Ай бұрын

Absolutely wonderful film, i just would love it, if the guy in the Herald sees this and gives us his side of the story. ❤

@aztimms Ай бұрын

Driven by a fellow staff IAM examiner no doubt - a set up for the film.

@Sam_Green____4114 Ай бұрын

I doubt he would be alive now ! I was born two years later and I'm 60 in January !

@Brian----- 10 күн бұрын

6:13 “we mustn’t weave in and out” He should be a driving instructor 😂

@anthonyg638 26 күн бұрын

I thought all Jags in the 60's were driven by villains leaving a bank quickly ......

@Tolpuddle581 24 күн бұрын

Agree! Those old English cop shows like 'No hiding place' in their Wolseley's chasing the villains in their Jags.

@ozzie-sk9dh Ай бұрын

The key message is at 17:30 No point in playing 'after you Claude'. Amazing that he recognised Claude. 😂

@Traveller69 11 ай бұрын

Good to know that people with inadequacy issues about their cars who subsequently drive like like ...well the 🤡 that they are, is not a new thing. 😊 Lovely stuff.

@robintowler9125 Ай бұрын

Giving me the v sign, I can't think why he should think I am interested in his politics......Priceless

@djidroneadventures4059 Ай бұрын

Perhaps it was Harvey Smith

@robintowler9125 Ай бұрын

@@djidroneadventures4059 that takes me back

@laurencecope7083 16 күн бұрын

A friend of mine was taking his advanced driving test, and was waiting behind a car at a roundabout. It was clear from the right so he started to pull forward, and totaled the car infront, because it had stalled and he did not notice.

@Mortimer50145 8 ай бұрын

Interesting to see this version of the film. The version I've seen up to now starts at about 5:14 as he's about to join the M4. I liked his demo at around 4:40 of how *not* to steer, with lots of crossing of hands. I notice that even when he is steering "properly", he doesn't make full use of the wheel when turning tight corners: he makes a lot of small movements whereas I tend to start with both hands at 12 o'clock, pull down on one side to 6 o'clock, with the non-pulling hand mirroring the other one and then pushing up from 6 to 12 - a smaller number of larger movements. Mind you, he was driving a car that probably didn't have power steering - did a pre-1963 Jag Mark II have power steering as an option?

@TheClockwise770 Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure they didn't. I passed my IAM test in 1979. I handle the steering almost exactly the same when driving my 1974 Rover P6 3500s today as that has no power steering.

@if6was985 11 ай бұрын

When blaggers drove Jags! ❤

@robbierobson3251 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to improve what was already a most interesting and fascinating piece of motoring history. I have watched this many times before, and will do so again and again. As a classic police car enthusiast, I was particularly interested in the Wolseley 6/99 Traffic Car turning left off the A4 into Heathrow Airport. I think that this version shows the registration number more clearly. I read it as 704CXA, which could be correct. Can you confirm this?

@maxustaxus 11 ай бұрын

Hi, I have tried to make this out myself...and and it is a bit frustrating. My copy does not look very much better. I get 7C4 CXA. But is it is really hard, it could be 704 CX3. The only number I would bet on is the "4".

@robbierobson3251 11 ай бұрын

It must be 704CXA, a 1961 London issued number. In other u-tube gems, I have also identified 703CXA, 665CXA and 708CXA, all Wolseley or Austin Metropolitan Police cars, so I think that 704CXA is right. Regrettably all these cars seem to be no more. Not surprising, but sad nonetheless! @@maxustaxus

@r7coo Ай бұрын

The driver of the Red Triumphs seems to have had too many light ales old boy!

@tims7250 21 күн бұрын

Trafficator 😮

@CsImre 5 күн бұрын

That steering method at 5:10 was a big no-no for my driving instructor... it's called "milking the wheel"

@timtim4603 Ай бұрын

Most cars had no seat belts I believe in a crash no crumple zones at risk of serious injury cars have come a long way

@jrgroberts 7 күн бұрын

Ah. And no 70 limit, but very little motorway... and goodness I have owned a lot of those car models, as old wrecks!

@shankarbalan3813 6 күн бұрын

This should be a mandatory driving instructional video in today’s world (for all countries using Right Hand Drive Cars and who drive on the left side of the road) and those who dont follow it, should be severely penalised. Nowadays almost no one turns right keeping to the correct side of the road, in the manner depicted in this video.

@steamsearcher 28 күн бұрын

We did Reading, Theale, Newbury and round the CLOCK TOWER 2 days ago. How things have changed. ALL WHILE LOOKING FOR A BANK THAT WAS STILL OPEN NOT VIA A LONG WAIT ON THE TELEPHONE!!! Oh the days of double de clutching. Mk 1 Metro. Neutral slip into second and it lines up for first. David and Lily Reading.

@williamkennedy5492 17 күн бұрын

Its a pre 63 jag as it has flat headlight glass, My dad had a 1963 3.8 Mk2 now as a 73 year old i remember it well. Road rage and aggression seem to be the order of the day nowadays , one doesn't have to look for trouble its out there waiting. Pity we cannot do the same run today for comparison ! you'd probably get mugged !

@dromrai Ай бұрын

More than 90% of the vehicles seen here are English made, unlike today. Used to hitch hike that road to Bristol regularly and then it was the on the 'bikes before the M4 made it quicker and boring.

@thigydaze 17 күн бұрын

13:35 signalling with my trafficator 😂

@TheClockwise770 Ай бұрын

I wonder if that Jaguar is still around?

@jumpjet777 25 күн бұрын

The registration isn't (6929RW), no car found on the DVLA website

@BossySwan 28 күн бұрын

17:49 Where is that cool little arch?

@Sam_Green____4114 Ай бұрын

So even today It's still not a motorway to Bath? You have to leave the M4 and go south down the A46 or take the A350 thorough Chippenham ( by -passed ) and then the old A4 through Corsham ( the road this was filmed on ? )

@Sam_Green____4114 Ай бұрын

I remember having to go through Newbury in the 90s .It seems familiar . But I wasn't going west I was going south to North ! Was it before they built the new A34 ?

@unconventionalideas5683 11 ай бұрын

9:20 "...three lane road, which experts tell us is not dangerous." Oh really?

@Mortimer50145 8 ай бұрын

Probably less dangerous because there was considerably less traffic in relation to the number of lanes, but set against that, cars were not limited to 70 mph in 1963 and were (AFAIK) unrestricted (except by the power of the engine!). Was it 1965 when the 70 mph max speed limit of Britain's roads was brought in?

@unconventionalideas5683 4 ай бұрын

I forget (American here), but there were limits off of motorways before that, and that three lane road would not have been a motorway. @@Mortimer50145

@unconventionalideas5683 4 ай бұрын

I believe the absence of a speed limit was only for motorways, although as an American I am unsure when that was. We always had limits on the Interstate System.@@Mortimer50145

@unconventionalideas5683 3 ай бұрын

Unsure. But I think off of motorways there was always a speed limit from the time the red flag act was introduced.@@Mortimer50145

@struck2soon Ай бұрын

They didn’t survive, did they?

@kb4777 14 сағат бұрын

Oh god, what we have lost....

@jackmartinleith 4 күн бұрын

Continuity error in Bath: For some daft reason he's on Lower Borough Walls (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9KhZMaSrNuUeKc.htmlsi=vjeHiKjl6EKPUW0a) passing the Lamb and Lion pub, which still exists today. A couple of seconds later he's on Walcot Street, going past the old cattle market and St Michaels Without church.

@davemurrell8810 Ай бұрын

0:50 Didn’t see him utilising his trafficator when pulling away from kerb, tch.

@Steve-Cross 17 күн бұрын

4 years old in 1963. My pedal car was always well maintained, with a little drop of 3 in 1 oil. 😂

@paulfrost8952 7 күн бұрын

No pot holes!

@MLC... Ай бұрын

Love the way Eyles flashes his headlights and hoots at that inconsiderate idiot at the 8 min mark. High five George!

@fredwest2234 Ай бұрын

he did not check his blind spot when he pulled away!

@cushyglen4264 17 күн бұрын

In the 50s & 60s as a boy I was led to believe the Jaguar was a spiv’s car. 😅

@prometheus4130 15 күн бұрын

My father lost his offside rear wheel on his MG M type doing this trip in 1959….he watched it run past him 😂

@adude9882 16 күн бұрын

You'd think he was flying a plane. I was born in 63. Nobody I knew had a Jaguar. Class awareness was everywhere. If you weren't like this jolly good chap you really knew it. I'm very glad this world has gone.

@phillipecook3227 12 күн бұрын

How do you know it was his Jaguar ??

@robhavock9434 Ай бұрын

Was it not the bank robbers chosen car.

@jumpjet777 25 күн бұрын

You've been watching too many episodes of 'The Sweeney' 👍

@kensvay4561 14 күн бұрын

We had an XJ6 in 1978 and the Old Bill was always on our case. It was seen as a villains car. Love this chaps commentary and defensive driving. Lovely red interior on the Jag. Had a red XJS in 1980, could still drive fast then. 140mph plus.

@michaelstaley2241 Ай бұрын

From a bygone area, no curtesy now a days, people can be very aggressive.. not everyone I might add, a lot less traffic people generally treated other motorists well..

@RichardHunter-qr4hw 28 күн бұрын

did you miss the driver giving the V sign?

@michaelstaley2241 27 күн бұрын

@@RichardHunter-qr4hw yes probably.

@colindevelin9308 18 сағат бұрын

I thought maybe they’d gone on holiday by mistake

@daeshbagcentral5298 27 күн бұрын

Listen to this bloke drone on.zzzzzzz. I had a Mk 2 Jaguar like this,in British Racing Green with black interior.I wish i had it now....id sell it as it would be worth a bundle.

@Sam_Green____4114 Ай бұрын

60 years ago when this was filmed was 1903 ? They are not saying 60 years ago from today ?

@craigadam 20 күн бұрын

Hitting another car also doing 60mph is not a combined speed of 120. It’s like hitting an immovable object at 60, as you both absorb equal impact energ.

@briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 Ай бұрын

You think this is bad... LOL Now it would be all camera-monitored cycle lanes (because cyclists pay so much to use the roads) bus lanes ..No car lanes... 20mph roads .....speed bumps in the middle of the road... CCTV everywhere... Make one mistake it costs you £100 or 3 penalty points.