Part 1: 1950's BTF "Ferry Load" ~ BRS Transport Tilbury-Antwerp & Preston-Larne ~ Pickfords

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Part 1: 1950's BTF "Ferry Load" ~ BRS Transport Tilbury-Antwerp & Preston-Larne ~ Pickfords

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@ianmorgan9291 Жыл бұрын

In an age when we manufactured. So sad so much has disappeared.

@omarks Жыл бұрын

Great musical score!

@matthewgaskin4215 2 жыл бұрын

Old trucks are the best British classics

@julianwalls1077 4 ай бұрын

These later ferries look like what was sold to New Zealand for north island to south island ferry service in the late 60s to mid 80s they carried passagers, cars, trucks and locomotives with freight!😮

@briansearle4138 Жыл бұрын

Ahh when we made everything,

@micheldemeester3309 11 ай бұрын

worked for Townsend Thoresen and for P&O Ferries....nice to see the history of it.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 11 ай бұрын

An interesting bit near the start, the shot where a lorry turns left and you can see Brent Cross Garage in the background...... That was where the M1 and A5 now converge upon a 6 lane super highway North Circular Road! Nothing left around there now of old London, either in infrastructure or local culture........

@fenpikey 7 ай бұрын

I was wondering if it was maybe the olde A1/Great North Road Junction til I see this comment 🙂

@kevint.5712 Жыл бұрын

Not totally sure, but I think the man talking to the shipping agent in his office at the start was Richard Pearson. The actor who voiced Mole in Cosgrove Hall's version of The Wind in The Willows.

@tdr2512 Жыл бұрын

And played Victor Meldrews brother in One foot in the grave. Alfred I think.

@ccjelley2390 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful. I guess the Edwards Leyland is the firm Louis C Edwards from the family of which Martin Edwards later became the Chairman of Manchester United. Remember London Carriers well.

@scaniatruckertir 12 жыл бұрын

a beautiful piece of transport history in film, thank you.

@jet936 13 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this superb film. The score so far for lorry makes: AEC Mercury @ 2:03, Atkinson @4:16, AEC Mandator @5:18, Ford Thames@4:27, Commer Superpoise@9:55, Bussing (German)@14:33 and an ex US Army Mack@14:51.Might be more yet as I'm certain to watch it a few more times.

@888ssss Жыл бұрын

6:04 this is the original thomas cook ltd which started transporting passengers in 1948

@petecollins4925 4 ай бұрын

For some reason this came up on my recommended for you list. Rather nice that it did, my dad worked in Tilbury for the Mercantile Marine Office. Obviously I grew up not that far from Tilbury, the docks have changed enormously, these days it's mostly car imports and container traffic. Purfleet deep water berth which is a little further upstream from Tilbury is the busy trailer port these days with daily sailings to and from Zeebrugge and Rotterdam. There's currently a major roadwork development nearing completion to take the heavy vehicles away from the existing entrance which impinges on the residential part of the village.

@everestyeti Жыл бұрын

BRS, that brings back memories and the days before Europe's biggest car park the M25.

@daveconyard8946 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, 👍Great Post .

@alan-sk7ky Жыл бұрын

1:27 'ere what's Father Courtnay from When The Boat Comes In doing in trade...

@jefflee3145 Жыл бұрын

Martin Edwards, Louis Edwards son also Manchester United Chairman,many years ago?

@722garage9 Жыл бұрын

That's some undertaking if our driver left Tilbury on Wednesday and made it to Italy by Friday. Incredible. I wonder if they double shifted the vehicle!

@andybennett1133 11 ай бұрын

1 hit

@paulreilly3904 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, simply wonderful. The past certainly is a foreign country.

@marvwatkins7029 Жыл бұрын

Mighty fine indeed.

@simonlunt353 11 ай бұрын

I enjoy this film but I got thinking how many of these firms are still trading 😊

@wolfgangwind6918 4 жыл бұрын

I think ,the Reasons because we like Vintage Style so much in our times is : in this Film it looks all gentle and not to much Stress and comfortable for the people - i like this type of Film very much , but i think that the Workers of yesterday had a very hard job - finaly the best : they havent Mobil,s ;-)

@irishfairground 8 жыл бұрын

I noticed at 6 mins after measuring the length of the Van the measured the width across the cab which was narrower than the box

@redvelvetshoes Жыл бұрын

This is good. Not only did we invent the RoRo ferry , but it illustrates our part - via trade and standardisation- in the eventual inception of EEC. DeGaul was right to oppose us. We did become the big noise/bully as he predicted. If only we’d listened

@fredbailey2076 Жыл бұрын

i remember them days ive got a load for Milan when will it get there

@johnmehaffey9953 5 жыл бұрын

I remember they guy who said you wouldn't believe me if I said no, (the one smoking the pipe) in many films and black and white t.v programs but then again I'm older than the film, he seemed to be what would be called a character actor

@andymcdowell8239 Жыл бұрын

Richard Pearson. Had a film/tv career stretching from 1947 to 1996 and yes, a dependable character actor. Rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in WWII.

@derekwhyle1884 Жыл бұрын

The world is a very much smaller place now than when I was born

@tangerinedream7211 Жыл бұрын

With the new P and O pioneer theres no need to turn around and reverse into the berth now, a great idea, wonder why it wasn't done years ago.🤔

@patodwyer721 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Wonderful insight to transport history.

@carlnapp4412 2 жыл бұрын

2:50 Oh, a Matrix Grinder, qualitiy from Coventry.

@seanvernon5549 10 ай бұрын

Great to see a company I used to work for in this video.

@NitroNoriFan 10 ай бұрын

Which company?

@seanvernon5549 10 ай бұрын

@@NitroNoriFan London carriers

@deliow 13 жыл бұрын

Im a 1954 model and isnt it great to see all the unique makes to different countries.It made going abroad an true adventure. Exciting times up to the early '70s I guess. Now its all the same wherever you go, shame, just eurotrash. Nostalgia isnt what it used to be. Wonderful film.

@SimonEllwood 2 жыл бұрын

Strange route from South of the Thames to not go via a Kent port! I just read up, this ferry opened before the Kent services!

@theunemployedtrucker 10 ай бұрын

God that is one early tilt trailer 🎉

@angeldawnmorningstar 2 жыл бұрын

so it ships fish and chips to Antwerp and brings back sausages and waffles ? NICE ! 🤣😂😇

@bonkeydollocks1879 2 жыл бұрын

Sausages went out

@astra47420 Жыл бұрын

This country is not the same GB??? Thanks for the films times are changing

@DEROUGET 11 жыл бұрын

Great film but couldn't believe how the Manager spoke to the client at the beginning of the film; no wonder British exports declined from the 50's onwards!

@folksinger2100 4 жыл бұрын

Its called English Exceptionalism part of the mental condition that leads to being the sick man of Europe

@djlewis5149 3 жыл бұрын

Err I think they were actors

@studebaker4217 3 жыл бұрын

The caller was their Italian agent, and the guy in the office was a colleague, so more understandable?

@aussiebigbangers 12 жыл бұрын

Great stuff..thanks for taking the time to load this on..

@johnpearson1543 5 жыл бұрын

aussiebigbangers

@peterdavidson3268 4 жыл бұрын

Edwards Sausages - would that be anything to do with Louis Edwards, who became Chairman and majority shareholder in Manchester United?

@johnvanstone5336 2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@andrewallen9993 Жыл бұрын

Machine tools and injection moulding machines made in Britain and bought by Italy? Well I never! You mean this actually happened?

@train4905 4 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed that.

@paulreilly3904 6 ай бұрын

Why did only the trailers go to Europe. And not the whole shebang? Did it not make sense to send the tractor unit to say Italy France or Germany?

@LeMagnum440 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting, brilliant film

@drummerboy1390 5 жыл бұрын

Not a container in sight. Containers changed everything.

@peterdavidson3268 4 жыл бұрын

@steady eddie Not really @steady eddie - Freight Containerization was pioneered in the USA, which helps to explain why container sizes are described as Twenty Footers and Forty Footers - the technical term TEU is an acronym for Twenty Foot Equivalent - the capacity of container ships is still measured using TEU unit numbers - this despite International Shipping, in common with all other cross-border activities, utilising the metric measuring system. It is fair to claim that the advent of the Common Market (or European Economic Community to use a more accurate term) coincided with the explosive growth of international trade in general, and containerized freight movements in particular, during the relevant period, ie. from late 1950s onwards, but the two factors are not directly connected.

@bonkeydollocks1879 2 жыл бұрын

@@peterdavidson3268 what's that got to do with there being no containers in sight in the video?

@jamescampbell425 11 жыл бұрын

Interesting film. Thanks for sharing.

@NitroNoriFan 13 жыл бұрын

@jet936 Brilliant!! thanks for that.....you obviously know your stuff!!! You might enjoy my other BTF uploads too ;)

@tandemcompound2 9 ай бұрын

back when Britain was a first world country.

@carloslopes5831 4 жыл бұрын

Good old Days!!

@carloslopes5831 4 жыл бұрын

@steady eddie I hope so!!!! Thks.

@folksinger2100 4 жыл бұрын

@steady eddie lots of paper work, crap trucks, crap cars and crap clothes.

@folksinger2100 4 жыл бұрын

@steady eddie Having started work in the 1960's I can recall just what a dismal grey place when your choice was either third rate or nothing. It is no wonder that recreational drug use became so widespread to escape the situation.

@folksinger2100 4 жыл бұрын

@steady eddie just a really crap time

@johnsweda2999 4 жыл бұрын

I know that actor but I forgot his name the shop steward at the beginning in the office after the phone call very well-known did he do children's television

@tomkent4656 2 жыл бұрын

Richard Pearson.

@annoyingbstard9407 Жыл бұрын

And Gary’s dad in Men Behaving badly.

@thomasm1964 4 жыл бұрын

Cordless phone?

@dryflyman7121 6 ай бұрын

Not a computer, mobile phone or motorway in sight ! The days when we manufactured things, even owned things. Meat and sausages transported in non refrigerated lorries? 🤔. The beginning of the RoRo system, now largely replaced by containers and ships so huge they have to create deep water harbours to accommodate them. I suppose it’s progress but fuelling a consumerist Society? Are we really any the better for it?

@boleynali 7 жыл бұрын

Bardic ferry was scrapped in 1988 in Turkey.

@catherinemassey2834 4 жыл бұрын

@Mike Lloyd yuppy preston dont you mean yucky prestonastan

@catherinemassey2834 4 жыл бұрын

@Mike Lloyd yes looks normal left wing pillock just seen all the Hindu and lezzer shite on his facebook page

@theunemployedtrucker 10 ай бұрын

Hardly any sleeper cabs then 🎉

@repentbeforeitstoolate..8239 Жыл бұрын

Smart clothes worn back then

@mikewatte4478 2 жыл бұрын

Thomas cook

@horsenuts1831 2 жыл бұрын

Oooh, look. The 1950s, just where Brexit is taking us (but without the forward-looking vision and hope).

@rapman5791 Ай бұрын

Pip Pip Cheerio Bob’s your uncle

@jacobmassey3897 Жыл бұрын

This shows that Britain is the greatest nation on earth. We still rule the world in every respect and make a mockery of dumb countries like France and of course the United States of racist America. I was born in Preston and worked on these ferries from 1957 until the mid 70s and can honestly say it was one of the best jobs I've had. Watching this brings back a lot of happy memories of a time when Britain was truly British. No Arabs or Asians destroying our beautiful country (nothing against those from the Caribbean or West Indies)

@catherinemassey2834 4 жыл бұрын

What we bought and sold from europe before the eu, surly this is fake before the eu you would be lucky if you sold a postage stamp outside the uk without a war

@markrichards636 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, must be fake pro-Brexit lies. Surely European trade didn't happen before we joined the great the EU....

@folksinger2100 4 жыл бұрын

The Preston stuff went to Northern Ireland, the European trade was a shadow of what it was as members of the EU

@Richard-pe4cx 3 жыл бұрын

GROW UP YOU WON GET OVER IT