1970s BRITISH AUTO JUNKYARD, STEEL RECYCLING PROLER PROCESS PROMOTIONAL FILM 52844
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2018
- "Pass Along The Car Please!" is a short British film from the Proler Cohen company (likely from the 1970s), that presents the Proler process for recycling old cars. The film begins with shots of scrap yards full of old cars, and the narrator discusses the problem of scrapping over half a million cars each year that faces Great Britain. Old cars are abandoned everywhere, cluttering roads and polluting the countryside, partially because it is no longer financially worthwhile for scrappers to buy old vehicles. The answer to his problem is Proler. A Proler factory (02:05), where the Proler process of scrapping old cars efficiently is carried out, removes old cars from the community and puts steel back into the steel industry. A Proler plant can reduce a car into pieces of steel in just fifteen seconds. The process has been perfected by the Proler Steel Corporation in the U.S. The Proler process is an automatic process (04:00), where a crane places cars onto a conveyer belt, which moves the cars into a disintegrator (04:50) where the cars are reduced to small pieces of steel, separated from any waste, and compacted into fist-size pieces (05:28) for easy transportation. It takes only a matter of minutes from the time the car is placed on the conveyer belt to when it is turned into high-quality Proler steel. The whole operation is dust free due to a high-efficiency dust collection system (06:08), protecting the surrounding community. The Proler process is so effective that Proler will pay for scrap cars. Special trains provided by British Rail (06:55) will transport Proler steel to steel works facilities. Other forms of light scrap can also be treated by the Proler factory and turned into high quality dense scrap. This means more money for scrappers and less scrap on the streets and in the fields-“everyone will profit with Proler.”
Born in 1917, Sam Proler was the man behind the Proler process. In the mid-1950s, Sam Proler and his family’s scrap company, Proler Steel Corp., had a problem: They possessed some 40,000 tons of No. 2 auto bundles but were seeing an absence of interest from steel mills in their product due to the number of contaminants in the bales. Proler managed to persuade a company that made hammermill-style crusher (generally used in mining operations) to fabricate an automobile shredder. The Proler automobile shredding process received a U.S. patent in 1960 and revolutionized the recycling industry. Read more at: www.recyclingtoday.com/article...
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Morris Minor ELD 715C at the end is still with us today - last change of owner June 2021. 👍🏻
Really??? Amazing!!!!!!!!!
My family has been in the scrap business since 1962, the year I was born. Before the shredders were invented cars were burnt and made into #2 bundles. My dad would go out after supper and light 6 cars on fire. We would sit on the back porch and watch. Fireworks night at our house!
Sounds like Richard Baker narrating.
Sad how the industry has changed, there were still cars dumped all over into the early 80s in the UK but now scrap cars are worth a fortune
Imagine the money those number plates would make now SXU 9 and BSR 56! Times have changed with cars being drained of fluids and carefully recycled,back then then it was a drop of petrol and a match prior to being cut up!
True, but you had to transfer them to another car at the time to keep the number, I think. Probably most people could not be bothered. Once a number is dead from a car being scrapped I think there's a law preventing its reissue.
here in italy we still have dumped cars big time
60s made film , dumped cars were left everywhere at the time. It was a big problem.
I seem to remember this in the 70s as well!!
1:53 That numberplate, SXU 9 would be worth a bit!
"by 1967". This film is from the 1960's not 70's.
I keep hearing people tell me different things on this one.
It's early 60s.
@@stephanesonneville I would have gone and said a little further back and said the 50s but pepole here are more au fait with cars of that era then I
It’s at least 1965. Te Morris Minor Traveller parked behind the pile of processed metal at the end was registered in May 1965. In fact it is still in existence today and it last changed owners in June 2021. So that one managed to avoid the crusher! 👍🏻
I can't decide if I'm more heartbroken over the British cars or the American ones. Most of the American ones were 4 doors and idiots still scrap those today because they're worth less than 2 doors
This is basically why I don’t particularly care for muscle cars or anything that’s a 2 door, muscle cars from the 60’s and 70’s are basically economy cars of the era masquerading as sports cars. Plus muscle cars and economy cars of the era essentially paved the way for today’s socialist car sizes. I honestly wouldn’t care if every Ford Mustang from the 60’s got junked, small and unibody and feel every damn bump in the road with a unibody car since the frame and body are one piece which means you aren’t as isolated from the road as well. Maybe when I ding the 1966 Ford Galaxie 4 door hardtop, I’ll put a trailer hitch on it and haul every muscle car that’s in bad shape to the crusher, absolutely DESPISE small cars new or old.
@@seana806 I don't think Dodge Chargers or Pontiac GTOs were ever small. I think studebaker might have started the American economy car idea
@@elementalb3m957 possibly, but I think it was the Ford Falcon that started that trend. Just not fond of small cars newer or older, since cars have gotten smaller over the years, that’s basically why everyone has moved on to trucks and SUVs since they are the only ones that offer cargo space and passenger room. If they still built full sized cars like they did back then, there wouldn’t be a need for oversized SUVs or trucks since a full sized sedan would all you would need to have.
@@seana806 I think they only build massive SUVs like that for tax reasons. After about 1977 America didn't really produce any large or particularly stylish cars anymore because of the oil crisis but I still can't see why people still bought new cars after that when they were so clearly inferior to the older ones. If I wanted a cadillac in 1978 and I walked into the dealership and saw a weird little Seville I'd have laughed and walked out and bought a twice the size and horsepower 1966 coupe DeVille from a used car dealership for a few hundred dollars
4:45 - Christine
I see her sister about to be disintegrated its a shame
Also one at 2:08.
Hi
@@lashondatalbert8271 ikr 😢
aktually christine is a fury, these are belvederes so no 🤓
What is that microcar at 1:40 with the numberplate beginning 547?
Is that an R type Bentley at 1:53?
The burning estate wagon looks valuable.
Armstrong Siddeley?
I think the Bentley-esque saloon may actually be a DB18 Daimler Consort. That burning wagon is an Austin A70 Hereford Countryman.
2:45 - Is that a 1958 Oldsmobile?
yes
Meanwhile I can't find hillman car parts
2:02 on is USA recycling
No wonder spare parts are getting scarce!
There's no such thing as scarce spare parts except for these old things. Most of which went to the crusher around the time this was filmed. In todays world, there's near unlimited spares for common vehicles, ESPECIALLY things that never sell. And that includes the huge chinese overproduction of car parts for late 90s cars which they're STILL sitting on and have dropped to about half price, sometimes less. Eventually they'll have to scrap all those parts, still new in the boxes.
And they still do it this way today.
Imagine finding classic cars like that just dumped nowadays!
I find them all the time. This year I found around 9 abandoned classic cars that people pushed off cliffs of old roads and that kind of thing back in the day. Another time this summer I found a bunch of classic cars that were mostly buried along an old highway for erosion control or just to fill in a hole.
i see car that can be used for banger racing .
I see a lot of them.
Especially the Yanks on the trailer
It’ll happen again when we’re all driving electric cars, not scrap but just flat battery’s lol
So much american cars in England then?
That is US footage to illustrate the function of the crushing machine (most likely the machine was American made as they had an even bigger dumped car problem.)
Cars were so shit back then, I couldn't tell which they were scrapping or making.
Cars weren't shit at all during that time.
Especially the American cars.
But the main issue was rust.
At that time the cars that were build back then did not get a anti rust treatment like cars do today for the last 15 to 20 years or so.
You can build a car with the highest quality possible.
But without any anti rust treatment this will eventually kill a car, no matter how well it's build.