Amazing, still the same asphalt on some of those roads today. Back when only a little public money, not all of it like today, was siphoned away from infrastructure budgets. Nowadays, it all goes into some council members and their contractor mates pocket.

Excellent film, demonstrating the different things men did to build and maintain the functionality of our modern world. I'm forever grateful! And those gorgeous old cars. I'll take one -- any one.

Beaut film, thank you. I was 6yo when this film was made in '66. What a momentous year that was; Mr. Menzies retired, out went the pounds, shillings & pence, in came the dollars and the cents, & everyone was singing 'The Sound of Music'. Ah, such halcyon days! There were no Japanese cars on the roads then, & the trucks were mostly British - Bedfords & Commers - red, it seems, being the predominant colour. And of course, the ubiquitous VW Beetle, although most of the cars were Holdens or Fords.

Thanks for this; another grand collection of the past.

A good reminder of what it was like in 1966 compared with 2013.

At 1:03 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood, from the railway station looking east. At 1:21 A BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) DC10 aircraft. BOAC would merge with BEA to become British Airways in 1974. At 1:31 Darling Harbour Goods Yard with the old Government Printing Office at Pyrmont (blue glass) in the background. At 2:08 a coal truck leaving the Blackwattle Bay wharfs onto Bridge Road, Wentworth Park in the distance. At 3:02 a 1953 Dennis F1 pumper and a 1929 Dennis ladders leaving No. 4 Fire Station Darlinghurst (Kings Cross) and then travelling south along Victoria Street. At 7:09 an ambulance coming down Fullers Road and then on to Lady Game Drive, Chatswood West. Fullers Bridge, over the Lane Cove River, can be seen in a later scene in the background when the ambulance door is shut. The car is an Austin A50. At 7:57 is the first iPad. At 8:25 is Park Street between the Hyde Park(s) looking east from the old T&G Building, corner Park and Elizabeth Streets. At 10:52 is the Pacific Highway, North Sydney, with some construction clearing on the right for the future Warringah Expressway. The high-level traffic is using the former tramway and tram bridge (originally intended for a Northern Beaches Railway via North Sydney). At 11:00 is the site cleared for Goldfields House at Circular Quay, which set a new low for cheap and nasty abominations, and still stands!!! At 11:10 appears to be demolition associated with the Warringah Freeway at North Sydney, with a pylon of the Harbour Bridge and the Greenway Building (public housing at Kirribilli) in the distance. At 12:17 Bondi Beach. At 12:19 William Street looking east, with no traffic lights!!! At 12:27 the City approach to the Pyrmont Bridge, then the main route west apart from Parramatta Road, the four stacks of the Pyrmont Power Station in the distance.

i love it life seemed much slower

I think I saw at least a dozen OH&S violations, LOL. The good old days ;)

I Miss the look & sounds of those days. Wish times were like that now. Life now is not as we had back then.

EXCELLENT film 10 out 10!!!! Should be part of education system for kids at school!!

I love the fire trucks. They seem vintage compared to today's fire trucks.

Those Fire trucks were awesome. Only thing missing was the Dalmatian.

The good old days 👍 i was 3 when they made this 😃

Great short film that shows just how things worked at a certain part of time. Many thanks for posting.

Great video for history lessons in primary school!

Even 50 odd years ago, everything seemed to be very quaint. The older guys, who looked 70 but were probably 40, wearing pork pie hats at work.

Australia has come a long way in way in a very short time!

Amen!!! Love this trip down memory lane! Great country, Australia!

Thanks for the feedback.

Wish I had some of those cars today..awesome..

Fantastic resources, life has certainly changed.

Amazing!

Yes. Ep 1 is Railways at Work - see our On The Rails playlist. Ep 4 also posted Ships At Work - On The Water playlist and Roads is Ep 2. Only Ep 3 Aircraft At Work to go.

A number of similarities to the US. Australia was close to America in per-capita ownership of private cars, far ahead of most other countries at that time.

My father was a road worker in the northern Territory in the 1960s to 80s He was a very hard worker and his mates were real men! hard and funny sadly alcohol killed a lot of them.

20 years later I worked in Sydney and the boss came with his Beetle every day to work and first he red the newspaper.

NIce video! I noticed what looks like a GM PD 4106 bus, identical to those used in the US.

very nice ^^

12:57 the 169 bus to Wingala...a locality around Dee Why/North Curl Curl.

Better days then today

Life without the Visibility Vests and you could light up a cigarette anywhere anytime.

9 yo when this was made. Brings back memories.

Love the old cars especially the Beetles and Kombis

@ 11.01 Alfred Street, Circular Quay, Goldfields House, which has come and gone, was built in the hole.

Tracey-Ann Johns would like this video. 🇦🇺

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Is there an Ep1 posted?

Interesting. Although this footage may have been released in 66 I'm fairly certain it was filmed no later than mid 1965. There are many EH Holdens but not yet any HD Holdens evident.

It was a better time.

What a great film of a great time to be alive. Its sad that todays council/state gov are closing roads and making them narrow/smaller. Parking is becoming a scarce commodity today.

Why don’t they send people to schools anymore? I don’t remember anyone talking to mr about road safety except my parents.

At 12:20 William st heading up to the Cross.

10:53 looks like science fiction: driving on top of buildings. Weird city planning!

I wonder what it looks like now. Great times.

What is the red truck reversing at 2.50 to 2.53 . Is it a Fargo or Dodge or international or Karrier

Gee, we were a hard-working country back then. We got stuff done. 2:50 There is now a just a few modern semis doing the work of all those flatbeds and utes

Love NFSA

All cars in the documentary: 1960's Fire Engine: Looks like a 1930s truck

Not one Hi-Viz Shirt. Paradise

Ah, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now...

some great thinking they had Australia has the worlds biggest trains such a shame they drive on roads not rails

And what fire station is that?

from the point of view of NSW

10:29

Dudes worked fucking hard

This was back in the day when traffic was not that bad and people where not so lazy such shame the automatic transmission has ruined everything

This is big brother watching our every move! Are we really so stupid to believe that government is out to actually help us?

Really they are lorries NOT trucks!

Too busy, even then.

Oh I say in Awrsttraylia old chap. Good grief the narrators in those days all had plums in their mouths.

A very car oriented country with little regard for pedestrians. Try to spot wide paths or sidewalks with coffee shops and outdoor seating 😂😂😂