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I lived in Birmingham until age 6 when my parents relocated to San Francisco in 1965. My father worked for Standard Triumph which morphed into British Leyland in Brisbane California. I can’t tell you how much enjoyment your channel brings to me. Thank you so much. I remember driving around Birmingham in our Austin A35 and my father letting me operate the center console indicator switch. Fell very fortunate to have had those formative years in England.
Being in the states that was the first time I have seen anything like the Abnormal Load Engineering truck was Awesome!!!..Super cool stuff..Thank you for bringing this to us all..-John
What a fantastic museum. The early vehicles were absolute works of art. I can definitely see a stationary engine in my future. Thanks for another great video.
My face hurts from smiling so much! Thank you for what seemed like a tour through my Matchbox toy collection so many years ago. As a young Canadian boy, I discovered vehicles that didn't roll on our streets, like the Morris Van. I have loved vehicle design all of my life because of those toys.
Hi , not been to the museum since we went with grandson a number of years ago, we only live about 15 miles away remember the pope bus being there then, remember seeing the some of the trucks corn merchant's about in 1960's. Brought back memories to an old guy. Thank you.
The first 3 coaches were tops. As you know in the States we call them trucks and I've loved them since boyhood. I couldn't begin to guess the hundreds of thousand miles I drove in them. In the 50's there was an 'old coal truck' maybe a TT and you could hear the chain drive before it appeared and my brother and I could run along beside it. Always a thrill. Thank you for another great video. Liked the 3/4 midget racer too👍🏽
hi Rick,great video, love the Leyland coach at the beginning, thats how i remember them withthe 4 spoke steering wheel, to days coaches are rubbish.regards to Harley,
Thanks for posting i really enjoy your videos. As an OAP i love to see young people getting involved in classic cars & commercials but at least keep them under control. Cheers Dave
you have done us all proud Richard, what a museum, it would be a full day to have a proper look throught it. Totally agree the Leyland Lioness would be my pick also, but so many top examples to choose from.
Fantastic museum 😊😮😮 Thanks for the tour Rick😊enjoyed😮 Thanks also to all the staff for all their hard work at the museum The condition is amazing 😊😊😊😮😮😊thanks
I can smell the moquette from here on those coaches. The staff at the museum are exceptional I certainly feel.We have just bought 5 Iveco trucks and the tech in them and driver comfort is outstanding totally different to these old lorries which by todays standards are basic workhorses and completely fit for purpose.
I love these old commercial vehicles. The engineering, workmanship and letter writing are so admirable. So many things were made in England at that time. I remember the Ford E83W vans from my childhood in Ireland. I seem to remember most of them as being blue in colour. In Canada I do not get to see anything this rich.
As well as other wagons as a schoolboy I went for thousands of miles of rides in Commer TS3's. One was a flatbed tipper which could be fitted with a 3 deck open topped livestock container. Another was a twin steer tipper used for coal, coke and smokeless fuels. A third was also a flat bed tipper with 3 deck livestock container but fitted with Perkins engine. We got the occasional ride to school on a Ribble Leyland Tiger Cub Burlingham coach rather than the usual Leyland Saro or Sentinel service bus. I went to the museum about two years ago. Well worth a visit. They also have an amazing archives department. Thanks for the memories.
Very cool trucks and buses! A couple remind me of the buses we see in some episodes of Miss Marple on Britbox here in the US. I bet they were borrowed from this museum. As always a great video!
Richard . I wasn't at all interested in this .......until l started watching it !!! The standard of exhibits in the museum was incredible. Impossible to pick a favourite but l loved the Bedford Coach in the car park . I know your favourite but for me the Bedford was for the people not just for the favoured few and was superbly presented. I wonder what was lurking under the bonnet of that A30. Oh, l loved the Riley Kestrel ❤ As always , thankyou Richard .
Funny ! I was just thinking of the Austin Loadstar commercial today. I had seen one for sale in Canada and lost track of it. Unfortunately it was a couple thousand miles from here as well so not so easy to transport from the west to east coast. Your videos are appreciated. Very nice.
Hi 👋 I hope I'm not repeating myself here , but it may have been Harleys channel that i mentioned about the buses we had here in Auckland city New Zealand that i remember. If not we had British Daimler Freeline buses, and they were built from 1951 to 1964. I traveled on them. They were made as electric trolley buses too. Apparently they didn't sell well in Britain, so we must have bought them. Later in the 1970s they were replaced with German Mercedes Benz buses. I like that Leyland bus on show. It reminded me of the Daimler ones we had.
@oldclassiccarUK I liked how you went inside the Leyland bus and showed the interior. I took me back to the time i traveled alot on the Daimler buses then. Even the clock at the front of the bus too was what the Daimler buses had in them too.
As you may know from previous comments on your videos my first ever job was servicing Atkinson trucks every weekend at a local haulage contractor. In 1975 I used to regularly hitch from Newcastle to London to visit a Geordie enclave in Stepney Green. I remember seeing an immaculate 1950s Foden truck and was amazed when it pulled over. But what an unpleasant and uncomfortable ride that was. No attempt at either sound deadening or insulation on that cold winter's day. The only heating came from the engine in the cab whose cover was draped in layers of blankets to keep it's noise down. I couldn't hear a word what the driver was saying with the engine noise and the grinding changes of the crash gear box. Why this truck was in regular use and how the drivers put up with it I'll never know and after a few more miles a thankfully got dropped off. The drivers of any trucks of that era must have been hard men to put up with noise and extremes of heat and cold every working day!
Why oh why do indulgent parents bring their spoilt, noisy offspring to events like this? Well done Richard for keeping your composure and again delivering a first class presentation.
Thanks, glad you liked it, the way I see it is that I have to fit around other visitors to any museum I go to, and it was a play area in that corner, so while not ideal it's just something to work around. Having been to lots of play barns, kids' parties and so on over the years, I'm used to it I suppose :-)
It seems a bit crazy to mess around with such an identifiable brand. I understand that modernising it is a good idea, but this is too much IMO. The advert is very odd indeed.
@@ricksampson6780 Totally agree with all the comments, as a Jag owner (on my 3rd now) the direction they are taking will I feel, ensures that the end of Jaguar is close, such a shame & an indicator of the current woke management, so tragic!! Sir William will be turning in his grave at this desecration of his wonderful company & their products! THIS IS NOT PROGRESS!!!
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I lived in Birmingham until age 6 when my parents relocated to San Francisco in 1965. My father worked for Standard Triumph which morphed into British Leyland in Brisbane California. I can’t tell you how much enjoyment your channel brings to me.
Thank you so much. I remember driving around Birmingham in our Austin A35 and my father letting me operate the center console indicator switch. Fell very fortunate to have had those formative years in England.
Thanks, glad you're liking the uploads
THANKS TO THE MUSEUM for allowing this Awesome video to be made.
📻🙂
Thanks Jeff!
From the Netherlands, what a great video,enjoying your commentary, beautifull British vehicles ,those were the days!
Thanks Tom, glad you liked it
Being in the states that was the first time I have seen anything like the Abnormal Load Engineering truck was Awesome!!!..Super cool stuff..Thank you for bringing this to us all..-John
Thanks 👍
What a fantastic museum. The early vehicles were absolute works of art.
I can definitely see a stationary engine in my future. Thanks for another great video.
My face hurts from smiling so much! Thank you for what seemed like a tour through my Matchbox toy collection so many years ago. As a young Canadian boy, I discovered vehicles that didn't roll on our streets, like the Morris Van. I have loved vehicle design all of my life because of those toys.
Thanks for watching! glad it brought back good memories
Hi , not been to the museum since we went with grandson a number of years ago, we only live about 15 miles away remember the pope bus being there then, remember seeing the some of the trucks corn merchant's about in 1960's.
Brought back memories to an old guy. Thank you.
The first 3 coaches were tops. As you know in the States we call them trucks and I've loved them since boyhood. I couldn't begin to guess the hundreds of thousand miles I drove in them. In the 50's there was an 'old coal truck' maybe a TT and you could hear the chain drive before it appeared and my brother and I could run along beside it. Always a thrill. Thank you for another great video. Liked the 3/4 midget racer too👍🏽
Cool, yes they tend to be referred to as trucks here also now
Another brilliant video
Great to see a fantastic mix of commercials 👍🏻👍🏻
Many thanks!
hi Rick,great video, love the Leyland coach at the beginning, thats how i remember them withthe 4 spoke steering wheel, to days coaches are rubbish.regards to Harley,
Thanks for posting i really enjoy your videos. As an OAP i love to see young people getting involved in classic cars & commercials but at least keep them under control. Cheers Dave
Thanks for watching!
Fabulous ,thank you so much ,those of us that cannot get up country ,this more than makes up for that .
Cheers, nice to see the vid getting plenty of views
Great video very informative and interesting thanks, cheers
Nice to see the leyland buffalo, they certainly weren’t that shiny when they were new !
The Bulldog Mack was a nice one too !
you have done us all proud Richard, what a museum, it would be a full day to have a proper look throught it. Totally agree the Leyland Lioness would be my pick also, but so many top examples to choose from.
Thanks Allan, I was pleasantly surprised just how many early vehicles were there on show
It's a lot better now it's been done up used to be so dark. Went on the lioness when it was doing tours around the town on show days.
Cool, I'd like a ride in that one too!
Fantastic museum 😊😮😮
Thanks for the tour Rick😊enjoyed😮
Thanks also to all the staff for all their hard work at the museum
The condition is amazing 😊😊😊😮😮😊thanks
I can smell the moquette from here on those coaches. The staff at the museum are exceptional I certainly feel.We have just bought 5 Iveco trucks and the tech in them and driver comfort is outstanding totally different to these old lorries which by todays standards are basic workhorses and completely fit for purpose.
Yes a big thanks to the gent who provided a lot of extra background info.
I love these old commercial vehicles. The engineering, workmanship and letter writing are so admirable. So many things were made in England at that time. I remember the Ford E83W vans from my childhood in Ireland. I seem to remember most of them as being blue in colour. In Canada I do not get to see anything this rich.
I guess in much of Canada, everyone/thing is more spread out than it is over here?
Was lovely to meet you at the museum and have a chat😊
Cheers, you had the Land Rover iirc?
It's another great video! I loved the petrol tanker the most, but did you notice the wonderful steam lawnmower? Even better than an Atco Standard. 🙂
Yes the tanker was fab, I saw the mower but didn't dwell on it perhaps as much I should have!
As well as other wagons as a schoolboy I went for thousands of miles of rides in Commer TS3's. One was a flatbed tipper which could be fitted with a 3 deck open topped livestock container. Another was a twin steer tipper used for coal, coke and smokeless fuels. A third was also a flat bed tipper with 3 deck livestock container but fitted with Perkins engine. We got the occasional ride to school on a Ribble Leyland Tiger Cub Burlingham coach rather than the usual Leyland Saro or Sentinel service bus. I went to the museum about two years ago. Well worth a visit. They also have an amazing archives department. Thanks for the memories.
Interesting stuff, I'm sure I'll pay it another visit one day
Great watch 👍
Thank you 👍
All good stuff, happy days.
Great video... Thanks
Thanks. I preferred the earlier part of the video from inside the museum. There were some very interesting vehicles in there.
Thanks yes it was a very interesting place
Bedford milk wagon my favourite
Already visited in 2019 as far as I remember on one of our trio through UK.
The Vauxhall Royale is the same as the Australian Holden Commodore to look at. It's all General Motors. Holden , Opel , and Vauxhall
Very cool trucks and buses! A couple remind me of the buses we see in some episodes of Miss Marple on Britbox here in the US. I bet they were borrowed from this museum. As always a great video!
Thanks Eric, glad you liked it
Richard . I wasn't at all interested in this .......until l started watching it !!! The standard of exhibits in the museum was incredible. Impossible to pick a favourite but l loved the Bedford Coach in the car park . I know your favourite but for me the Bedford was for the people not just for the favoured few and was superbly presented. I wonder what was lurking under the bonnet of that A30. Oh, l loved the Riley Kestrel ❤ As always , thankyou Richard .
Excellent, glad you found it worthwhile - yes the Bedford was a beauty also, hard to pick a favourite really
Funny ! I was just thinking of the Austin Loadstar commercial today. I had seen one for sale in Canada and lost track of it. Unfortunately it was a couple thousand miles from here as well so not so easy to transport from the west to east coast. Your videos are appreciated. Very nice.
Cheers, thanks for watching
Hi 👋 I hope I'm not repeating myself here , but it may have been Harleys channel that i mentioned about the buses we had here in Auckland city New Zealand that i remember. If not we had British Daimler Freeline buses, and they were built from 1951 to 1964. I traveled on them. They were made as electric trolley buses too. Apparently they didn't sell well in Britain, so we must have bought them. Later in the 1970s they were replaced with German Mercedes Benz buses. I like that Leyland bus on show. It reminded me of the Daimler ones we had.
I don't remember any really nice buses around our way when I was growing up, usually Leyland Atlanteans and maybe a few Bristol VRs (I think)
@oldclassiccarUK I liked how you went inside the Leyland bus and showed the interior. I took me back to the time i traveled alot on the Daimler buses then. Even the clock at the front of the bus too was what the Daimler buses had in them too.
As you may know from previous comments on your videos my first ever job was servicing Atkinson trucks every weekend at a local haulage contractor. In 1975 I used to regularly hitch from Newcastle to London to visit a Geordie enclave in Stepney Green. I remember seeing an immaculate 1950s Foden truck and was amazed when it pulled over. But what an unpleasant and uncomfortable ride that was. No attempt at either sound deadening or insulation on that cold winter's day. The only heating came from the engine in the cab whose cover was draped in layers of blankets to keep it's noise down. I couldn't hear a word what the driver was saying with the engine noise and the grinding changes of the crash gear box. Why this truck was in regular use and how the drivers put up with it I'll never know and after a few more miles a thankfully got dropped off. The drivers of any trucks of that era must have been hard men to put up with noise and extremes of heat and cold every working day!
Ha great story, thanks for posting it here! Yes those drivers were made of stern stuff
I remember the Foden's brass band, finest musicians. Anyone else?
I remember of it, but I'm not sure I ever saw it in action
Small point: the Thornycroft is fitted with oil lamps, not acetylene
Ah ok thanks
Why oh why do indulgent parents bring their spoilt, noisy offspring to events like this? Well done Richard for keeping your composure and again delivering a first class presentation.
Thanks, glad you liked it, the way I see it is that I have to fit around other visitors to any museum I go to, and it was a play area in that corner, so while not ideal it's just something to work around. Having been to lots of play barns, kids' parties and so on over the years, I'm used to it I suppose :-)
Yes, letting them climb about the vehicles when there are notices asking you not to.
When the time comes for whatever reason, ie to big, need the space, etc big Dodge would look really good in that museum on loan.
Yes that kind of setup would be a good (temporary) home for big Dodge, although in this case it's a British vehicle museum
I don’t think I saw a Maudsley, was there one?
I don't remember offhand, occasionally I see them at rallies we go to, but not often, survivors are few in number
As a Jag owner what do you think of the new woke advert?
I believe it is the beginning of the end for Jaguar, most unfortunate.
It seems a bit crazy to mess around with such an identifiable brand. I understand that modernising it is a good idea, but this is too much IMO. The advert is very odd indeed.
@@oldclassiccarUK Agreed.
@@ricksampson6780 Totally agree with all the comments, as a Jag owner (on my 3rd now) the direction they are taking will I feel, ensures that the end of Jaguar is close, such a shame & an indicator of the current woke management, so tragic!! Sir William will be turning in his grave at this desecration of his wonderful company & their products! THIS IS NOT PROGRESS!!!
@@richardjjones2581 Hi Richard, it's definitely not progress, and perhaps part of a hidden agenda to destroy Western manufacturing.