@@robinlambert3917 I don't recall if the one used in that Laurel and Hardy film was a genuine automotive one, but they were actually sold at the time. Worked about as well as in that film on anything but a newly-paved road, too...
William's BBC colleague, that nice man Mr Savile, started doing the 'Clunk Click Every Trip' public information films in 1971. He really should have known better.
No more excuse for me to keep using a 3volt pocket radio hanging on my dashboard anymore in 2024, im upgrading to this novel 1971 innovation soon..sorry im 53years late!😂👍
William Woollard was a remarkable presenter - clear concise, professional- excellent on top gear when it was a motoring programme - rather than an ego trip for Clarkson and Co .
You people just don't get it. The later top gear was entertainment and highly successful around the word. The original was for sad anoraks who wanted to compare the carpet pile thickness of an Allegro with a Chevette.
1971: The CAR RADIO of the FUTURE? | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 1557pm 12.12.24 he was.. ah yes! tomorrows world... a kindda lax plummy home counties chappie. probably 40 park drive a day and a lot of time for the ladies. i mean, we'd all like that kindda chummy lifestyle.... is carol burns still knocking about?... this fella presenting anted to be 007. or the black magic box man.
Yeh, I do miss those days of sensible presenters instead of people trying to be funny or cool. No silly music, annoying camera angles and jump-cut editing, just simple, clear and informative. Lovely stuff.
That’s a common urban legend. In the actual episode, they wash it off again before playing it. The point was that there were no grooves for dirt to get stuck in.
The assuring tones of William Woollard. 👍 I like that it's well positioned to distract and hide the sight of any irritating children running into the road. 😁 Electronic touch buttons, can't wait!
@@thatdudeinorange5269 They would. If people didn't keep using Facebook and posting every small detail about their day that they did, what they ate, where they shopped, where they went to, worked, what they got for Christmas, what their kids did at the weekend etc then it would be harder for them to know about them. But most people are stupid and don't think that social media can be used to harvest their information and track them.
@@thatdudeinorange5269now our own GCHQ and the US NSA gather everything, sift, sort, save and distribute to the Five Eyes plus the Neue Stasi. All of which is intercepted by the CCP and FSB. Yep, RDS was the thin end of the Bug Brother wedge alright.
This was pretty advanced for the time, radios were an optional extra in most cars of the day, and when they were fitted they were mono and AM only!!!! I remember being blown away with my dad's first company car, a Ford Granada GL, which had an FM stereo radio cassette and 4 speakers!!! In reality it was terrible, about 5 watts per channel at epic distortion, with a very basic cassette drive, but compared to what I'd known before it was space age! Now we have audio systems with TFT screens that control everything, streaming on the move, nav systems, hands free phones, and enough power output to supply a small town!! For me, the biggest advance is music storage and replay with no moving parts, that is truly incredible and something that could not have even been dreamt of back then.
I remember getting my first car back in the 80s. One of the first things I did was to install a suitably anti-social sound system which cost almost as much as the car did.
OK - well this is the definative answer on the stie academics use - measuring worth: real price of that commodity is £1,785.00 labour value of that commodity is £2,855.00 income value of that commodity is £3,497.00 economic share of that commodity is £4,274.00 So you would have to earn £2,855 to buy it today - but commodities have got cheaper so the commodity price would be £1,785
"On Next week's show, we look at the latest Infinity 6x9's, Earthquake Sub and power amplifiers for the new Austin Allegro concept, launching in early 1973..."
A Wolseley 1800!! I had hoped to be laid in the cold cold earth before having to see one of those again 😥. I wonder how many takes were needed for the final shot: _Engine starts & car drives off_
Yes, reliability was not a strong point of these English upright models like the Wolsey and Maxi. You can hear the creaky leather seats in the video. May they rust in peace.
They always want to put some touch-sensitive garbage on the top of the dash: a radio back then, a tablet nowadays. Peak car ergonomics was in the late 1980s - early 1990s.
The first commercial capacitive sensor was developed in 1900, though there were touch panels in ancient Egypt and Greece for controlling fountains and various things. The mid-1950s saw the touch-sensitive lamp, and the first finger-sensitive touchscreen was invented in 1965.
@@frankshailes3205 while all true on their own, by placing them together like that you're potentially giving the impression that the touchscreen was capacitive just like this radio's buttons or the lamp you're citing. Touchscreens at the time used infrared or ultrasonic grids, and detected when your finger interrupted their flow. Of course, OP only discussed "touch activation" so it's still absolutely relevant to bring-up. Touch screens and light-pens were a big deal in the 60s and 70s, especially at banks etc. I just think, since you specified capacitive in the first instance, it would be honest to bring up the other methods too.
WOW, I had the 80s version of the same radio. I drove german cars back then, so it integrated very easily. Cool concept, I really miss the "cool" tech of the 70s & 80s especially out of Germany and Japan.
That would be a bit cludgy in 1971 in the US with dash integrated stereo typical. It is an afterfit German Bluepoint radio for a chat sequence on BBC. British ergonomics in the 70s was pretty dated.
@@STho205 these radios had a normal sized and shaped dash unit as well, what he's showing is just the remote control surface. Which was later built-into the steering column, or directly onto the wheel, in most cars.
Yes my dad's 1970 Cadillac had the volume, and seek tuning in the padded/molded steering wheel for a Delco 8 speaker stereo...as well as the buttons and knobs on the dash, Adaptive headlight dimmers Thermostat controlled air conditioning Electric 8 way seats Automatic transmission
Compulsory seatbelts came in the 80's. Clunk Click every Trip guidance started in the 70s even Saville creeped on the public information advertisement 😳
Despite looking a little clonky thats actually quite an impressive little device for 1971, I never saw auto searching in car stereo until the mid 1980s
Nobody could have imagined everything in some cars would eventually be entirely controlled searching and poking around on a complicated screen on the dashboard eyes off the road.
What, no thermionic valves? Amazing solid state technology. A bit concerning that this was in my lifetime. Talk about feeling old. I wonder if Rod Stewart will be claiming a copyright infringement for this video?
You can get similar units today that don't have a screen just controls but these are more meant with Bluetooth in mind controlling music from a phone GPS maps are what everyone wants these days which is why stereos with pop up screens are all the rage
So the daft notion of introducing touch screens to control things in your vehicle was already been floated around in 1971. Little did they realise how many drivers dislike it and are demanding the return of buttons and knobs so they don't have to take their eyes off of the road.
Not really a touch screen (which was to come in the next decade) but touch-sensitive controls. But you’re right, most people prefer knobs dials and buttons.
Interesting video. I had to have a snigger about the references to safety. Without a seatbelt, and a steering wheel that would collapse a skull or chest cavity on impact. Not to mention those leg-breaking chromed bumpers.
@@AtheistOrphan the only thing I can find is it's apparently a style of figure-skating in America. That doesn't seem to be how The Flying Scotsman is using it, though.
Age 19, my first car was a second hand Fiesta XR2 (original shape). Car was £3500. Saved hard, plus Xmas bonus from work, 1987, I spent £3800 fitting it out with Pioneer stereo🤣🤣🤣
Imagine what you actually picked up on the air as opposed to the shyte we've been exposed to over the last 20 odd years. Announcers who could speak, one at a time, and an array of music from pop, easy and classical and even a play. No amount of homogeneous tacky gadgets will get anything remotely as superior now. Less is so much more.
There are endless radio stations we can now choose from that can be received without breaking up continuously. I remember having to travel to pick up the Friday Rock show between 10 and 12pm which was the only Radio 1 programme to be transmitted in stereo. You should get one of your great great grandchildren to show how to access them.
@@byteme9718ah, Tommy Vance, RIP. I was lucky - I could receive The Friday Rock Show in my bedroom. I could relax whilst listening. So sorry to hear that you had to leave home to listen to it. Tommy had a beautiful voice for radio. I reckon that he'd have been entertaining just reading the phone book. It'll be the 20th anniversary of Tommy's death next March.
2024: manufacturers force touchscreens with terrible interfaces which distract drivers and force them to look away even for the tiniest of adjustments.
Weird how even with it in front of him, he thought that it was possible to interact with it without taking your eyes off the road (whereas you can't focus on something 18 inches away and something 30 feet away at the same time). Interesting though.
£100 in 1971 is worth £1,771.42 today more than the Car Cost ! This means that today's prices are 17.71 times as high as average prices since 1971, according to the Office for National Statistics composite price index. A pound today only buys 5.645% of what it could buy back then. The inflation rate in 1971 was 9.44%
100 quid, at a time when the average weekly wage was about 18 quid and the cost of installation still has to be added. The piece of tape hiding the brand name could have been cut a bit tidier. Even in those days, a lot of countries didn't allow paraphernalia to clutter up the view out of the windscreen. I've been told to remove my satnav in France and Germany a few times. And in California anything dangling from the rear view mirror is not allowed. Still, not a bad bit of hardware far ahead of its times.
Every great invention and idea happened in the past (often centuries ago). Today’s “inventions” are just improvements of past innovations which are only possible now due to the current technological advancements.
Typical BBC when talking about these things, for what became normal traffic announcements on RDS equipped car radios, that England were looking into this feature, what about the other countries in the "United Kingdom"? They always said England forgetting about everywhere else.
As an American who is stuck with VHF/UHF car radios, I'm always jealous of the Europeans that had long wave and medium wave car radios. Definitely something that they did better than us.
The US auto makers would like to eliminate AM because it's too expensive to shield them from all the hash that new cars generate. So far they haven't succeeded, but I'm sure that it's only a matter of time. I was in a hurry when I commented, so it was worded somewhat poorly. Anyway, LW never took off here like it did in Europe, so we have never had many options for auto radios. IIRC, they were all imported radios or kit built adapters, I don't recall any US auto makers offering them as a factory option. I used to be able to hear some of the bigger stations from home and it would have been wonderful to be able to hear them on the road.
Wow!, really looking forward to the future living in England. All these great inventions making our lives full of joy and the freedom to drive anywhere without hinderence. Each Englishman will own his own castle with robots looking after our every need and an aircraft at our disposal to fly to exotic places around the world and with a small payment to the Government for all our medical needs. Britain will be a beautiful island free from outside disruptions , an oasis, a place to be proud of.
He was fantastic. Always one of the best presenters. Magical diction.
yes, he actually pronounces the T if it appears in a word.
Agreed he was a master of his craft
He's William Woollard !
I'll stick with my in-car gramophone player thank you very much
ohh you are up market, I have a live band in the back of my Austin Mini
@@BillyNoMates1974 plus a dozen clowns? 😉
Like laurel and hardy?😊😊😅
@@robinlambert3917 excellent reference sir!
@@robinlambert3917 I don't recall if the one used in that Laurel and Hardy film was a genuine automotive one, but they were actually sold at the time. Worked about as well as in that film on anything but a newly-paved road, too...
The neatly taped over brand on the radio didnt cover the blue spot, meaning this was most probably made by Blaupunkt.
Also the German volume control buttons
Correct. Blaupunkt = ‘Blue point’ in English, hence the large blue dot 🔵 next to the taped-over brand name. (Their logo).
LAUT !!! JA !! 🙉
Mein Lautsprecher ist kaput!!
Guter punkt!
The William Woollard of the 1980s would have taken a dim view of 1971 William Woollard not wearing a seatbelt
Seatbelts were not compulsory until 1983.
William's BBC colleague, that nice man Mr Savile, started doing the 'Clunk Click Every Trip' public information films in 1971. He really should have known better.
So they couldn't run away...
@@DarthTrotter Savile's van had a hand wash basin the rear, between the beds... it was auctioned recently.
@@DarthTrotter So what ? He's supposed to be a responsible TV presenter, talking about health issues.
Nice to hear a 1971 Radio 1 jingle there!
Wonderful William Woolard, Michael Rodd was more like the business executive type, Raymond Baxter the military type and William the man of action.😀
No more excuse for me to keep using a 3volt pocket radio hanging on my dashboard anymore in 2024, im upgrading to this novel 1971 innovation soon..sorry im 53years late!😂👍
I am very impressed with the quality of the shot they got when filming through the windshield while the car was moving :-)
Basic stuff really. 16mm film camera suction mounted to the bonnet with a polarizing filter, sound guy hiding in the rear passenger seats.
That'll be the windscreen?
William Woollard was a remarkable presenter - clear concise, professional- excellent on top gear when it was a motoring programme - rather than an ego trip for Clarkson and Co .
Precisely.
You people just don't get it. The later top gear was entertainment and highly successful around the word. The original was for sad anoraks who wanted to compare the carpet pile thickness of an Allegro with a Chevette.
We gathered the format changed to dumb down to some oinks!
1971: The CAR RADIO of the FUTURE? | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 1557pm 12.12.24 he was.. ah yes! tomorrows world... a kindda lax plummy home counties chappie. probably 40 park drive a day and a lot of time for the ladies. i mean, we'd all like that kindda chummy lifestyle.... is carol burns still knocking about?... this fella presenting anted to be 007. or the black magic box man.
Yeh, I do miss those days of sensible presenters instead of people trying to be funny or cool. No silly music, annoying camera angles and jump-cut editing, just simple, clear and informative. Lovely stuff.
Tomorrow's world told me I could spread strawberry jam on a CD and it would still play music. Judith Haan owes me 99 pounds 😂
Haha I remember that well. Definitely false advertising
You can spread jam as long as you wash it off afterwards
That’s a common urban legend. In the actual episode, they wash it off again before playing it. The point was that there were no grooves for dirt to get stuck in.
@@DavidGloverAoki and indeed that clip is on this very channel!
Not quite right.
orchardoo.com/TWCompactDisc.htm
Woollard! I wonder if he knows how huge a part of our growing up he was. Legend.
The assuring tones of William Woollard. 👍
I like that it's well positioned to distract and hide the sight of any irritating children running into the road. 😁
Electronic touch buttons, can't wait!
1970's Head up display. 👍🏼
I loved William Woolard’s Top Gear presenting.
The idea of the RDS system being like “Big Brother” in an age where our TV’s and phones are stealing our personal data every day.
Yes that's true, but most people hearing you say that would think you are raving mad.
So true. I prefer 90s tech or earlier.
Stasi from old Eastern Germany would have loved todays technolgy with endless amount of information about their citizens.
@@thatdudeinorange5269 They would. If people didn't keep using Facebook and posting every small detail about their day that they did, what they ate, where they shopped, where they went to, worked, what they got for Christmas, what their kids did at the weekend etc then it would be harder for them to know about them. But most people are stupid and don't think that social media can be used to harvest their information and track them.
@@thatdudeinorange5269now our own GCHQ and the US NSA gather everything, sift, sort, save and distribute to the Five Eyes plus the Neue Stasi. All of which is intercepted by the CCP and FSB.
Yep, RDS was the thin end of the Bug Brother wedge alright.
Ahh must be from Germany as 2 of the touch buttons are called "LAUT" and "LEISE".
The birth of RDS.
Respiratory distress syndrome?
Absolutely!
@@frankshailes3205Radio Data System.
RDS turned out to be useless in most cases. That kind of information needs to be real time.
@@frankshailes3205 - Radio Data System, called the RBDS (Radio Broadcast Data System) in the US.
This was pretty advanced for the time, radios were an optional extra in most cars of the day, and when they were fitted they were mono and AM only!!!! I remember being blown away with my dad's first company car, a Ford Granada GL, which had an FM stereo radio cassette and 4 speakers!!! In reality it was terrible, about 5 watts per channel at epic distortion, with a very basic cassette drive, but compared to what I'd known before it was space age! Now we have audio systems with TFT screens that control everything, streaming on the move, nav systems, hands free phones, and enough power output to supply a small town!! For me, the biggest advance is music storage and replay with no moving parts, that is truly incredible and something that could not have even been dreamt of back then.
Prototype Blaupunkt Berlin, expensive unit sold from the mid '70's on.
Incredible for 1971. It's like a proto RDS radio.
A bit big brother?
Give it 50 years, mate.
Oy! You got a license for that comment?
A brilliant clip. Prescient and well researched.
It looked like a lovely spring day too!
I remember getting my first car back in the 80s. One of the first things I did was to install a suitably anti-social sound system which cost almost as much as the car did.
100 pounds in 1971 would be the equivalent to £1,771 today.
A new Volkswagon Beetle was like 400 pounds back then?
@@fidelcatsro6948 Only like? What was it in reality? Or were you making a comparative on its weight? Did Geoff Capes carry one?
@@Excession-h6e haha, nice one! Calling out the excessive use of the word 'like'.
@@Excession-h6e Well, multiply 1771 by 4 and you'll have your rough answer.
OK - well this is the definative answer on the stie academics use - measuring worth:
real price of that commodity is £1,785.00
labour value of that commodity is £2,855.00
income value of that commodity is £3,497.00
economic share of that commodity is £4,274.00
So you would have to earn £2,855 to buy it today - but commodities have got cheaper so the commodity price would be £1,785
The car is dated; the clothes are dated; the radio/technology is dated but the music is timeless!
Not dated, retro and very swinging.
@ yep!
The car looks to be a a Wolsley 18/85
WW rocking the 'Graham Chapman' haircut and sideburn combo
Sweeney villain!
Mungo Jerry more like. 😁
"On Next week's show, we look at the latest Infinity 6x9's, Earthquake Sub and power amplifiers for the new Austin Allegro concept, launching in early 1973..."
Interesting the quality of the popular music in those days!!
What happened the music and musicians after the year 2000?
After 1985, you mean.
William "Wolseley" Woollard 😊
Looks like a great device - I want one!
A Wolseley 1800!! I had hoped to be laid in the cold cold earth before having to see one of those again 😥.
I wonder how many takes were needed for the final shot: _Engine starts & car drives off_
Yes, reliability was not a strong point of these English upright models like the Wolsey and Maxi. You can hear the creaky leather seats in the video. May they rust in peace.
Jeeso solid state digital touch capacitive radio in the 1970s! So why was i stuck witha tape deck lol
They always want to put some touch-sensitive garbage on the top of the dash: a radio back then, a tablet nowadays. Peak car ergonomics was in the late 1980s - early 1990s.
Drove off in style with some Curtis.
Mr Woolard was the BBC's answer to Tony Bastable. Both professional broadcasters in their own right, and perfect English.
I like how he highlights the importance of road safety while not wearing his seat belt.
I can't believe that mounting a radio on a shower hose never took off.
Quite interesting how they had touch activation back in 1971.
The first commercial capacitive sensor was developed in 1900, though there were touch panels in ancient Egypt and Greece for controlling fountains and various things. The mid-1950s saw the touch-sensitive lamp, and the first finger-sensitive touchscreen was invented in 1965.
@ suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, since they did land on the moon in 1969 (LOL).
Sony TVs had touch controls for changing channels, and infrared remote controls.
@@frankshailes3205 while all true on their own, by placing them together like that you're potentially giving the impression that the touchscreen was capacitive just like this radio's buttons or the lamp you're citing.
Touchscreens at the time used infrared or ultrasonic grids, and detected when your finger interrupted their flow.
Of course, OP only discussed "touch activation" so it's still absolutely relevant to bring-up. Touch screens and light-pens were a big deal in the 60s and 70s, especially at banks etc.
I just think, since you specified capacitive in the first instance, it would be honest to bring up the other methods too.
@@swaneknoctic9555And landed on the moon they did!
WOW, I had the 80s version of the same radio. I drove german cars back then, so it integrated very easily.
Cool concept, I really miss the "cool" tech of the 70s & 80s especially out of Germany and Japan.
I'd prefer that to the unnecessarily complicated touch screen nonsense I have now
That was very advanced for 1971. However nowadays i think most agree that operating touch devices while driving is very distracting.
That would be a bit cludgy in 1971 in the US with dash integrated stereo typical. It is an afterfit German Bluepoint radio for a chat sequence on BBC. British ergonomics in the 70s was pretty dated.
@@STho205 these radios had a normal sized and shaped dash unit as well, what he's showing is just the remote control surface. Which was later built-into the steering column, or directly onto the wheel, in most cars.
Yes my dad's 1970 Cadillac had the volume, and seek tuning in the padded/molded steering wheel for a Delco 8 speaker stereo...as well as the buttons and knobs on the dash,
Adaptive headlight dimmers
Thermostat controlled air conditioning
Electric 8 way seats
Automatic transmission
Compulsory seatbelts came in the 80's. Clunk Click every Trip guidance started in the 70s even Saville creeped on the public information advertisement 😳
A bit of Rod Stewart in a maroon coloured Landcrab. Basically my childhood memories of going on holiday in a nutshell.
I miss tomorrows world I watched every episode
imagine a time where people were sensible enough to pull over before playing with gadgets in their vehicles
Despite looking a little clonky thats actually quite an impressive little device for 1971, I never saw auto searching in car stereo until the mid 1980s
Very impressive for 1971.
'The smaller the better because it does less damage to you in an accident' ....
compared with having a large valve radio perched on the dashboard!
Hope there is some Wollarding.
Sadly not. I was hoping for some too.
Nobody could have imagined everything in some cars would eventually be entirely controlled searching and poking around on a complicated screen on the dashboard eyes off the road.
What, no thermionic valves? Amazing solid state technology. A bit concerning that this was in my lifetime. Talk about feeling old. I wonder if Rod Stewart will be claiming a copyright infringement for this video?
They would have paid for clearance to include it on the clip
When he turns to look at the radio, his eyes make him look like some kind of demon.
Wow, that invention really caught on.
You can get similar units today that don't have a screen just controls but these are more meant with Bluetooth in mind controlling music from a phone
GPS maps are what everyone wants these days which is why stereos with pop up screens are all the rage
I would like to purchase one of these,do you have an address were i can write for details please.
So pithy and dry...excellent.
So if the radio was fitted into the steering wheel... The music could really be in your face ! 😱
To think touch controls were available all the way back them. Strange it didn't catch on through out the decades until recently.
So the daft notion of introducing touch screens to control things in your vehicle was already been floated around in 1971. Little did they realise how many drivers dislike it and are demanding the return of buttons and knobs so they don't have to take their eyes off of the road.
Not really a touch screen (which was to come in the next decade) but touch-sensitive controls. But you’re right, most people prefer knobs dials and buttons.
Interesting video. I had to have a snigger about the references to safety. Without a seatbelt, and a steering wheel that would collapse a skull or chest cavity on impact. Not to mention those leg-breaking chromed bumpers.
"Stadus" symbol!
That's when you know you've got game!
💪😉🇬🇧
nice. you can enjoy the rexing sound as you fly head first though the windscreen - as Wully Woolard has no seat belt on
I don’t know what ‘rexing’ means but I like the sound of it!
@@AtheistOrphan the only thing I can find is it's apparently a style of figure-skating in America. That doesn't seem to be how The Flying Scotsman is using it, though.
Age 19, my first car was a second hand Fiesta XR2 (original shape). Car was £3500. Saved hard, plus Xmas bonus from work, 1987, I spent £3800 fitting it out with Pioneer stereo🤣🤣🤣
Imagine what you actually picked up on the air as opposed to the shyte we've been exposed to over the last 20 odd years. Announcers who could speak, one at a time, and an array of music from pop, easy and classical and even a play. No amount of homogeneous tacky gadgets will get anything remotely as superior now. Less is so much more.
‘BCM’ (Before Chris Moyles)
There are endless radio stations we can now choose from that can be received without breaking up continuously. I remember having to travel to pick up the Friday Rock show between 10 and 12pm which was the only Radio 1 programme to be transmitted in stereo. You should get one of your great great grandchildren to show how to access them.
@@byteme9718ah, Tommy Vance, RIP.
I was lucky - I could receive The Friday Rock Show in my bedroom. I could relax whilst listening. So sorry to hear that you had to leave home to listen to it.
Tommy had a beautiful voice for radio. I reckon that he'd have been entertaining just reading the phone book.
It'll be the 20th anniversary of Tommy's death next March.
Those red lights, now i know where knight rider idea came from
Move on up - Curtis Mayfield at the end 😀
Tomorrow's World isn't on anymore, as the world of tomorrow looks even more dreadful than the world of today. Thanks, Space Karen!
50 years ago.
get it?
We haven t advanced a bit since 1970s UK...
Yes of course ive been using a pocket radio running off 3volt battery in this age
wow
2024: manufacturers force touchscreens with terrible interfaces which distract drivers and force them to look away even for the tiniest of adjustments.
I don’t remember these radios taking off . Or seeing them .
The tech he speaks of did.
They would take off alright....in the hands of thieves. That's why nobody wanted a car radio the cost a month's wages.
"Get you through the traffic jams"
2024 UK roads "hold my beer..."
Looks less laggy than many modern infotainment systems.
No record player, no cassette, no sub woofer high pass filter, no idea at all what I'm typing........
Apparently its still being perfected today as they haven't been able to get it to tune in perfectly with no crackle or hiss or loss of signal
If only Top Gear had watched this professionalism.
Ah....... the Wolseley Six - we had the cheaper Austin 2200 , 3 speed auto - it's 50 odd years ago - time really does fly unlike the 2200.
Weird how even with it in front of him, he thought that it was possible to interact with it without taking your eyes off the road (whereas you can't focus on something 18 inches away and something 30 feet away at the same time). Interesting though.
"Touch it lightly in the right place, and it does what ever you want" - We're still talking about a radio, right?
£100 in 1971 is worth £1,771.42 today more than the Car Cost !
This means that today's prices are 17.71 times as high as average prices since 1971, according to the Office for National Statistics composite price index. A pound today only buys 5.645% of what it could buy back then. The inflation rate in 1971 was 9.44%
And in 2024, DAB(+) still dips out in low areas 😂
"The road safety" he says tootling along without using the seatbelt..... them were the days🙂
100 quid, at a time when the average weekly wage was about 18 quid and the cost of installation still has to be added. The piece of tape hiding the brand name could have been cut a bit tidier. Even in those days, a lot of countries didn't allow paraphernalia to clutter up the view out of the windscreen. I've been told to remove my satnav in France and Germany a few times. And in California anything dangling from the rear view mirror is not allowed.
Still, not a bad bit of hardware far ahead of its times.
Nice bit of kit. A lot of money.
The 🚗 is a Wolseley 🛞
Two seconds of Curtis Mayfield finishing it off there.
Every great invention and idea happened in the past (often centuries ago). Today’s “inventions” are just improvements of past innovations which are only possible now due to the current technological advancements.
Typical BBC when talking about these things, for what became normal traffic announcements on RDS equipped car radios, that England were looking into this feature, what about the other countries in the "United Kingdom"? They always said England forgetting about everywhere else.
Yes, I noticed that as well...
I drive around with a 4 piece jazz band in the back
I want one.
As an American who is stuck with VHF/UHF car radios, I'm always jealous of the Europeans that had long wave and medium wave car radios.
Definitely something that they did better than us.
There are no AM/FM car radios over there anymore? (The medium-wave band is the same as your AM band.)
The US auto makers would like to eliminate AM because it's too expensive to shield them from all the hash that new cars generate. So far they haven't succeeded, but I'm sure that it's only a matter of time.
I was in a hurry when I commented, so it was worded somewhat poorly.
Anyway, LW never took off here like it did in Europe, so we have never had many options for auto radios. IIRC, they were all imported radios or kit built adapters, I don't recall any US auto makers offering them as a factory option.
I used to be able to hear some of the bigger stations from home and it would have been wonderful to be able to hear them on the road.
Wow!, really looking forward to the future living in England. All these great inventions making our lives full of joy and the freedom to drive anywhere without hinderence.
Each Englishman will own his own castle with robots looking after our every need and an aircraft at our disposal to fly to exotic places around the world and with a small payment to the Government for all our medical needs.
Britain will be a beautiful island free from outside disruptions , an oasis, a place to be proud of.
Wolseley six car
£100 in 1971 money is about £1235 in 2024 money.
The red LEDs under the tuning scale would have been ultra modern
William Woolard in a Woolsley 18/85 ?
Automated traffic announcements were thought to be 'Big Brother - ish!
wow, and now in the 2000s we have flying cars and.... oh
Blaupunkt, made in Germany, then
my car radio actually has a aux in so i can listen to my ipod while driving, isn’t that fabulous!!?
Hurrah !
O can you imagine that in a car today 😅😅😅