Part 1: 1950's BTF "Ferry Load" ~ BRS Transport Tilbury-Antwerp & Preston-Larne ~ Pickfords
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- 1950's British Transport Film "Ferry Load" telling the story of the cross channel vehicle ferry service from Tilbury to Antwerp on "Bardic Ferry". Featuring lorries transporting Radiography equiptment to Cologne, Whitbread beer to Brussels, machinery to Milan and Edwards sausages from Manchester destined for somewhere in Europe!
Brtish Road Services (BRS) Continental Ferry Service and Atlantic Steam Navigation Co Ltd do their part in the UK
Period trucks including Leyland, Morris, Bedford J Type & TK, Scammell, International, Kew Dodge, etc, on both sides of the channel work in unison to ensure the boats sail on time.
Archive footage shows the beginning of transport ferries for civilian use in 1947 using tank landing craft "Empire Cedric" from Preston to Larne, Northern Ireland
Watch Part 2 for the full story and a Postscript update from 1961
P.S. If you spot any other makes/models of truck let me know and I'll add them to the Tags!!! ;)
Thanks for watching ;)
In an age when we manufactured. So sad so much has disappeared.
Great musical score!
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........
I was wondering if it was maybe the olde A1/Great North Road Junction til I see this comment 🙂
Great to see a company I used to work for in this video.
Which company?
@@NitroNoriFan London carriers
Old trucks are the best British classics
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.
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!😮
BRS, that brings back memories and the days before Europe's biggest car park the M25.
Martin Edwards, Louis Edwards son also Manchester United Chairman,many years ago?
Ahh when we made everything,
a beautiful piece of transport history in film, thank you.
worked for Townsend Thoresen and for P&O Ferries....nice to see the history of it.
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.
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.
And played Victor Meldrews brother in One foot in the grave. Alfred I think.
6:04 this is the original thomas cook ltd which started transporting passengers in 1948
Wonderful, simply wonderful. The past certainly is a foreign country.
Thank you, 👍Great Post .
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.
Great video.
Wonderful insight to transport history.
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!
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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 ;-)
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
i remember them days ive got a load for Milan when will it get there
I really enjoyed that.
Mighty fine indeed.
This country is not the same GB??? Thanks for the films times are changing
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.🤔
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.
Machine tools and injection moulding machines made in Britain and bought by Italy?
Well I never! You mean this actually happened?
Thanks for posting, brilliant film
The world is a very much smaller place now than when I was born
so it ships fish and chips to Antwerp and brings back sausages and waffles ? NICE !
🤣😂😇
Sausages went out
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
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.
1:27 'ere what's Father Courtnay from When The Boat Comes In doing in trade...
Great stuff..thanks for taking the time to load this on..
aussiebigbangers
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
back when Britain was a first world country.
Interesting film. Thanks for sharing.
I enjoy this film but I got thinking how many of these firms are still trading 😊
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!
2:50 Oh, a Matrix Grinder, qualitiy from Coventry.
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!
Its called English Exceptionalism part of the mental condition that leads to being the sick man of Europe
Err I think they were actors
The caller was their Italian agent, and the guy in the office was a colleague, so more understandable?
God that is one early tilt trailer 🎉
Edwards Sausages - would that be anything to do with Louis Edwards, who became Chairman and majority shareholder in Manchester United?
Yes
Not a container in sight.
Containers changed everything.
@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.
@@peterdavidson3268 what's that got to do with there being no containers in sight in the video?
@jet936 Brilliant!! thanks for that.....you obviously know your stuff!!!
You might enjoy my other BTF uploads too ;)
Good old Days!!
@steady eddie I hope so!!!! Thks.
@steady eddie lots of paper work, crap trucks, crap cars and crap clothes.
@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.
@steady eddie just a really crap time
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?
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?
Hardly any sleeper cabs then 🎉
Bardic ferry was scrapped in 1988 in Turkey.
@Mike Lloyd yuppy preston dont you mean yucky prestonastan
@Mike Lloyd yes looks normal left wing pillock just seen all the Hindu and lezzer shite on his facebook page
Edward’s meat van one time owner of Manchester United
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
Richard Pearson.
And Gary’s dad in Men Behaving badly.
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)
Cordless phone?
Smart clothes worn back then
Thomas cook
Pip Pip Cheerio
Bob’s your uncle
I blame Brexit, LOL!
Oooh, look. The 1950s, just where Brexit is taking us (but without the forward-looking vision and hope).
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
Agreed, must be fake pro-Brexit lies. Surely European trade didn't happen before we joined the great the EU....
The Preston stuff went to Northern Ireland, the European trade was a shadow of what it was as members of the EU
GROW UP YOU WON GET OVER IT
WHEN MY BELOVED ENGLAND WAS WHITE R.I.P ENGLAND
now its like a rainbow there all here for benifits
11 months down the line it’s got worse 😢
Back when the UK was full of well educated, mostly white British people with good morals and a brilliant work ethic, unlike now...