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Wow! I now want to try and recreate this in my Ten but over a week maybe.😂 Wonder what the roads are like now. How did the tyres stand up to that abuse?

What a film! Would be nice to recreate some of it at 100yrs.

some bonkers places too drive a car, only big 4x4's would attempt places like Garbrurn Road or Walna Scar today. Great video.

Amazing, never seen this before. Furthermore I've not been aware that vehicles other than farmers Land Rovers could negotiate Garburn and Walna Scar. I wonder how many tyres had to be replaced.

They left out the Gatescarth Pass from Mardale (the village now submerged under Haweswater reservoir) to Longsleddale. I last drove it (with permit) only last week in a Jeep Wrangler which fitted the permitted spec - wheelbase less than 100” and locking diff. It is still a road, but under a traffic restriction order. Plenty of footage of modern 4x4s driving it. A lot of the roads the little Austin covered are now permanently closed to traffic or have been tarmac-ed, but some featured sections are still drivable in the right vehicle.

Can you fix a electronic delco to a ke 30 car

Wow, Tommy Wisdom was the driver! He had a long career as race and rally driver and automotive journalist/editor. Check out his Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Wisdom

My 1st car. Lovely to find this film.

My first car was the 1947 model Austin 8, I wish I still had it a great little car. It was made the year that I was born

I had a 37 Austin 10, the quality of the car was outstanding. Why can't we make a good product like that these days?

90+% of modern cars would not even get half way round that circuit to day what a great little Austin loved the video thank you.

At the time there was great confidence in the british car industry, rightfully so.

Sadly, neither cars nor the lakes look like that today. And all on a little 850 side-valve motor. Let's see those spoilt clever-dicks in Porsches and Mercs negotiate such conditions! No way.

Production was halted the same year & restarted in 1945, the only Austin 8 model built between 1939-45 was the Austin 8 Tilly a military truck

Really enjoyed that! I think they call it the BBC voice-very cultured, very trained. I have just bought a Morris 8 and intend to build a lightweight special over the next year or two to drive on international rallies in the coming years. Glad to see how durable the original car was!

oh the innocence of those days

I was privileged to own one icey roads with inclines no problem nice little car

Amazing hill climbing on some of those old Austins! I once saw a film of an Austin10, I think, ad THAT was what first amazed me!

Oh, how I loong for a return to those non-existent innocent days!

I never thought there was such footage, combines all my loves, outdoors, Lake District but especially Classic Cars!. Thank you muchly.

Pa Austin hated hydraulic brakes. Said they would encourage furious driving.

Beautifully picturesque scenery in a cute little car. Doesn't get any better than that . I actually felt proud of that little car 😀💕👍👍👍👍

If I am not mistaken, apart from the car, the first sign of the 20th Century is the telegraph poles at 14 minutes in.

Even we traveled to hill station those days the petrol was cheap no litter but gallon lovely memories Wowwwwww

This is just lovely. Thank you for publishing this it was fascinating to see what was some of the older routes that are now walking routes.

I'll bet that wasn't his own car. !! ;)

Later that year: WW2. Hope both the guys got through it unscathed (unlike multiple tyres and suspension components in this film, I imagine - or maybe not?)

Utterly spellbinding. Love the music too, Smetana’s My Country. I bet a few tyres had to be changed in making this film !

I've just picked my jaw up off the floor !

I loved the old views of the roads, wow they were bad. The Wrynose Cockley and Hard Knott route is still fun today, and of course 3 Shires stone still marks the Old countys meeting point. When I were a lad, Coniston Old Man were in Lancashire.

Thanks for this. I remember traveling those passes in my Dad's old Morris 8 (essentially the same car) around 1960. Interesting, too, that they found the view down to the head of Great Langdale so good that they put in in two other places in the film where it wasn't relevant (the view down from the top of Hardknott at 11:00, and the beginning of the Kirkstone at 13:50). It's a lovely view, but not THAT good! 😁

The low torque of cars from that period made them good hill climbers,the wheels were less inclined to spin and lose traction.I had a 1937 Morris 8 which was brilliant in snow.

My first car was an 8 tourer

My little Austin 8 took me everywhere, excellent ground clearance. In Australia the heat was a bit of a problem for the cooling system though. Mechanical 4 wheel drum brakes meant you really judged your braking distances very carefully.

4:23, gawd, I felt that from here! :O

Looked like you had FUN!

These were great little cars. My grandmother had one and it could go along a motorway at 60mph; I wouldn't say comfortably because it was roaring, but 50mph was a good realistic cruising speed, which it could, and often did, maintain all day. Nan bought it about 1956 and put another 80,000 miles on it, totally trouble-free. Col, NZ.

They knew how to drive in those days. Mind I bet that Austin was loaded with options. Like a heater...