Legend has it that they are still driving up and down the autobahn to this day, in search of a decent cup of tea
@simonf89022 жыл бұрын
There’s no decent tea. Just the smell of the indium bearings.
@Gritt982 Жыл бұрын
They did say about 20k miles was the expected lifespan of the engine bearing.
@TheRealAndreasBartel3 ай бұрын
What's tea?
@trek520rider2 Жыл бұрын
I learned to drive in one of those split screen Minors. It had semaphore turn signals, the little lighted arm that came out of each door column. The ones in the film had blinkers.
@patriley94492 жыл бұрын
I lived in Germany when this film was made. My dad was in the US Army. Even as a child I remember that the roads had very little traffic on them. Most Europeans still used mass transit. I remember we went on a road trip to Austria in 1959 and we saw an entire family riding a motorcycle with a sidecar attached. Father was driving, mother behind him and two kids in the sidecar. Very efficient, but very cold as well.
@johnobiro52024 жыл бұрын
I totally enjoyed that. Great Cars. Great Engineering.
@patrickrooney51302 жыл бұрын
They don't make them like that anymore.
@AnthonyEvelyn2 жыл бұрын
Those BMC were tough old cars. Many lasting way beyond their intended useful years in Jamaica. Its their finicky doors that were annoying, 'do not slam' was a regular warning written or told by the driver.
@foreverpinkf.76034 жыл бұрын
I´ve never seen such an empty Autobahn my whole life even in the first Petrol Crisis.
@andybrown69812 жыл бұрын
4:30
@RRED22 жыл бұрын
The narrator said the the autobahn was busy?? He wants to see it in our time. 😄 Absolutely Spiffing 😜
@nickhickson87384 жыл бұрын
How on earth did we judge those speeds accurately with those wavering speedomters?
@MrRobster12349 жыл бұрын
They must have looked cheap pulling into petrol stations and using their own gas. I wonder if they took their own food into restaurants ?
@peteacher529 жыл бұрын
Rob Mackenzie ... and their own scissors into a barber shop ...
@vtecpreludevtec9 жыл бұрын
Of course,no foriegn muck
7 жыл бұрын
Rob Mackenzie Controlled fuel and fuel amounts. Nothing to do with being 'cheap.
@dirkm19642 жыл бұрын
Probably if BMC would be still existing they would run their tests even today on german Autobahn, as they got fuel in Germany that is not available due to missing lorry drivers in GB. Sorry for my english humour. But really a nice and odd footage you present here.
@newtonwhatevs Жыл бұрын
Foreign muck wouldn't agree with them.
@patl709 Жыл бұрын
A glorious future lies a ahead for the British car industry.
@DanaTheInsane Жыл бұрын
r/agedlikemilk
@hanshoogendyk5783 Жыл бұрын
But you don't have a " glorious motor industry anymore" I started work as an apprentice mechanic my second car was an a50 as I started work 87% of new cars sold in new zealand were British in 1969 by 1971 it wS down to 60% as people discovered the japanese cars were more reliable better handling, better braking more economical AND cheaper, by 1975 the bits had dropped to 40% because it was the same old same old poorly build, badly finished, still unreliable , the death knell came along as the ugly bmc finally driowned😊
@frank16722 жыл бұрын
I think they all rusted away before the trial was over!
@doubtingthomas7362 жыл бұрын
Would have loved to have been around in these black and white days when everyone spoke like Mr Cholmondley Warner! 🤣
@nickhickson87384 жыл бұрын
I've driven all these cars!
@mnbalfour1985 Жыл бұрын
1:40-1:53 It beggars belief that they expected only 20,000 miles out of these engines before they'd be clapped out.
@rogersmith83392 жыл бұрын
I recall the time that a guy in a Cambridge filled up at a service station on the motorway and drove off without paying. Several wrecked Range Rovers later he ran out of petrol and they finally caught him!
@briandoyle6672 жыл бұрын
I would love a job like that, those cars were great
@chrispigott69132 жыл бұрын
In the 1960 s I had a Austin A50 and it would do 80mph just like the one on the video. Very comfortable with big red leather seats. Column gear change rather slow ! I put a MG head on it with ten thousand planed off which improved miles per gallon and increased acceleration. I had a Morris Minor before that and did many miles in that with tool box, spare oil, water etc !
@onlyme9722 жыл бұрын
Back when the second hand car cost less than a tank of petrol today.
@routmaster38 Жыл бұрын
I had an A50 in the sixties that did 19 mpg knocking abut locally but up to 46 mpg after I fitted a vacuum gage and drove carefully
@shoshone37 ай бұрын
Driving past a bombed out building at 8:09?
@williamwhitney54427 жыл бұрын
Superb
@peterjones27612 жыл бұрын
Why did times have to change...
@John-lu2tk11 ай бұрын
Not a good ad for the Minor 1000 to see the back end bouncing around all the time. It looked very unstable.
@geoffcollier87368 ай бұрын
Autobahn driving needed an oil cooler. English cars were not designed for long constant speeds then. Lead Indium bearings and later oils were an improvement but not the total answer. VW beetles all had oil coolers for autobahn use.
@fordlandau5 жыл бұрын
My favourite
@harryacam6 жыл бұрын
The good old days!
@thomasoneill40742 ай бұрын
I owned a nissan bluebird which was based on the Morris Oxford 'brilliant little car.
@nickhickson87384 жыл бұрын
There's my Austin A30 there, well not that exact one.
@SeinSchatten2 жыл бұрын
It's amazing to see how the world looked like in 2014
@sunitization Жыл бұрын
I love how the opened windos worked as hand rests in those days 😂
@marcelolinhares8233 Жыл бұрын
Very good roads!!
@wilwahabri6 ай бұрын
In the days before the customer was expected to do the testing!
@michaelhawthorne8696 Жыл бұрын
84 Octane..... no wonder they can't manage 80 MPH
@johnpro28474 ай бұрын
-simple cars..easy to maintain ..go well for years ..however safety is a big issue..that is well into the future
@bruzagroves36513 жыл бұрын
How on earth did a Morrie pass a Beetle, and using 84 octane?!
@IDontWantAHandle1012 жыл бұрын
The answer is with ease. Range anxiety was invented from the vw beetle. But it wasn't running out of petrol or battery, it was running out of engine,,,,,,, BANG !!!!
@daverees93448 ай бұрын
Over 60 MPH eh. Must have been terrifying
@simonf89022 жыл бұрын
Cracks me up every time. 😂
@simonf89022 жыл бұрын
Tailgating is dangerous and leads to pulling your partners along.
@TheRealAndreasBartel3 ай бұрын
British cars were somehow like any continental car. Still don't fully understand why they totally failed. I mean VW was close to bankruptcy twice since I live, BMW in the early sixties. Borgward was the only maker that extinct to exist. Audi, NSU, Glas, Karmann were acquired by the big ones. Same with HGV and busses, Setra, Büssing, Hanomag, Magirus - were aquired by Mercedes, MAN, Iveko
@simmadpaul28802 жыл бұрын
"Heavy volume of traffic" Ha Ha.
@andypandywalters8 ай бұрын
All without seat belts!
@rodjames Жыл бұрын
tailgating at 80 with those brakes and no seatbelt !!! rather them than me
@buzzbuoy Жыл бұрын
Mile a minute description 🤣
@SimonFurber Жыл бұрын
84 octane petrol. 8-3 compression ration. 900 cc. 😂
@magnusnufer40923 ай бұрын
"average speed of over a mile a minute"
@papanoel3999 Жыл бұрын
Would you like a cigarette with your drive, of course I do, it is the 50s.
@hamishbrown97782 жыл бұрын
jolly hockey sticks old boy,the gerries didnt know what hit them ha ha!
@TB-up4xi3 жыл бұрын
All for a bit of nostalgia, but sorry, this just shows how rubbish the technology of the 50's really was (BMC's at least). 20-25k "highway" miles (with a warm & lubricated motor) , an oil change every 4k miles (every Sunday was "maintenance" day) and basically a full engine rebuild was in order (and probably 2 or 3 sets of cross-ply tyres to boot). I guess at least the brakes would still have been in good order.............no wait 20,000 miles at 200miles per tank that's at least 100 stops to refuel.....add in 2 sets of shoes, machined drums and 4 brake cylinders as well........oh and a weekly carby rebuild while you're at it, got to make sure we extract all 20-35kw from these performance powerhouses.
@andybrown69812 жыл бұрын
ahh, the good old Brit cars
@seansullivan94682 жыл бұрын
I had a Morris Oxford series V with a 1489 cc engine. With regular oil changes, it covered 140,000 miles. Still going strong when I passed it to a friend. Excellent engines, good cars.
@neilevans89402 жыл бұрын
Put it into context... Ford were still building cars with side valve engines, three speed gearboxes and transverse leaf springs at the time...
@baileyharrison1030 Жыл бұрын
@@neilevans8940 They were more comfortable and usually faster than the BMCs of the era. Ford even helped pioneer the automatic transmission with their Cruise-O-Matic in the early fifties.
@neilevans8940 Жыл бұрын
@@baileyharrison1030 You're obviously talking Ford USA here as in the UK from 1963 the vast majority of Fords with auto gearboxes used the Borg Warner 'box. Earlier UK Fords used the Hobbs Mecha-Matic... I know a bit about them as I own the surviving factory prototype Hobbs Auto A35...
@johanrebel2 жыл бұрын
Only a few years after WW2 one of the victors has no choice but to use the excellent road infrastructure of its thoroughly defeated enemy to tests its cars, already inferior to those produced by that former enemy. What's the word again? Wirtschaftswunder?
@andicog2 жыл бұрын
Yes, because Beetles, old Opels and Audis.never rotted away..... Why do you think Porsche and Audi turned to galvanised bodies? Then we have the ultra reliable NSU RO80 (I'll ignore the swing axle Prinz models and dangerous handling), moving forward they've really improved, unstable A class and Audi A1, Audi TT first gen with dodgy aerodynamics, trailing arm old 5 series with dubious rear end grip. Don't mention the Porsche IMS or liner problems. Still, now Mercedes are using Renault engines I'm sure they'll be OK. Ps, I actually like German cars but have spent my life driving and fixing them so I'm not blinkered to their many faults.
@jfv652 жыл бұрын
Nice infomercial. But in reality this test could have been done on a factory dyno. As a real life driving test it was a silly undertaking. An engine wears the fastest directly after a cold start. So, stop&start city traffic would have been a way better test. Also for brakes and suspention. But hey, those guys got a nice company paid trip out of it, i guess.
@neilevans89402 жыл бұрын
Because filming it produced a great advert for the cars...
@SimonFurber Жыл бұрын
What happened when your indium bearings wore out at 20,000miles ??????
@chrislee22216 ай бұрын
They didn't wear out in normal driving , these were tests to driven to destruction as said in the beginning, to think there are still some of these models on the road today, more then can be said for today's modern tin cans with trail engines that start playing up all too soon. Engines etc were not built to the fine tolerances we have today.i still have a 1960 Morris with a huge 948cc engine runs like a swiss watch. Just needs more frequent oil and filter changes then today.
@Dwaine-ir2kt9 ай бұрын
Cars made today wouldn't last like that it's all run by computers
@bigfist2552 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile our American cousins were smoking around in v8s
@DanaTheInsane Жыл бұрын
Back when we had all the industrial capacity.
@handsfree10002 жыл бұрын
I didn’t realise they could do 60 mph.
@rogersmith83392 жыл бұрын
Even the tiny A30 could average over that for 24 hours plus! Stick a contemporary blower on them and you might be surprised. Look at them racing at Goodwood.
@thehouseholder5468 Жыл бұрын
Destruction would have been stop start town driving choke on choke off col hot cold hot cold hot every day not an easy drive at 60 mph 😂
@richardsmith5792 жыл бұрын
Indian bearings. What on earth is he talking about? I was born in 1950 and this ridiculous voice was only heard on radio and television, until the public fell over laughing… crap cars by the way, my mother had a morris 1000 which wasn’t bad at all.
@jacobmoses37122 жыл бұрын
I think he said Indium. Atomic number 49
@The1trueDave2 жыл бұрын
@@jacobmoses3712 Just looked that up and it was used to coat bearings apparently. You learn something new every day!
@chuckmaddison2924 Жыл бұрын
I believe it's called the BBC voice. But what I find funny is America and Australia did a similar silly voice. Straight out of " Monty Python " The Silly Voice Society.
@trek520rider2 Жыл бұрын
For really big occasions there was Bob Danvers-Walker commentry. I remember him saying of a tiger that was not shot by the Duke of Edinburgh (he got a whitlow finger they said) that it "was not royally slain".