Design For Work - Reel 2 (1958)

[@PaulStClair-or3gj]

I was 11 years old when this was filmed.... brings back many memories.!! Thank goodnes for Pathe News... even then l watched Pathe News at the local cinema which coat 1 penny. Ahhh.... the memories....

[@johnlaine2654]

We had those milk bottles and aluminium bottle tops here in Australia as well. We also had the daily delivery of those tiny glass milk bottles at school every morning. Very tasty once they had been out in the schoolyards Summer sun for 2 hours. Oh How I hated that.

[@robharding4028]

Back when Britain was still great !

[@shankarbalan3813]

This brings back the clean innocent times….

[@ahassen1236]

Yes like mass unreported paedophilia in care homes! It really isn't what we perceived it. There was also huge poverty in inner city areas and slums.

[@iamnotawasp5151]

​@@ahassen1236 It's absurd isn't it. False memories of a time that never existed from people who weren't even born. I remember seeing a similar video to this once with a bunch of people in the comments saying the same type of stuff. The video was dated August 1939.......... like WHAT?

[@craigsibley8161]

Clean and innocent times 😂😂😂 When smoking was good for you and school dinner was a plate of rationed botulism... And choirboys were fair game 🤪

[@shankarbalan3813]

@@craigsibley8161 haha. yes there is always good and bad isnt there? our generation in the 1970’s and 1980’s thought smoking to be perfectly acceptable social behaviour. Now in the 2020’s I cant even bear the smell of cigarettes anywhere upwind of me!

[@eddiekennedy7394]

Great piece of British history thanks for posting

[@rp1645]

Thank you for showing this. I love how a Nurse is Riding in the Ambulance.

[@SteveMillar-t3f]

Back to the good old days when Britain was great

[@mikeya983]

In a heartbeat.

[@lloydpenfold486]

The butcher's van scene, the pub with the PC chatting to the landlord, the school and the village scene with a large church are all Tanworth in Arden. R H Simmonds was the village butcher there.

[@luckydice7-ql6yo]

Crazy to think that it’s only 22 years until they reach the 1980s

[@kennethnewberry941]

Regarding the voice mentioned in MrBooojangles enquiry below, I believe it is Tim Hunter who did no end of voice-over work in the 50s, 60s and 70s. He is particularly well known for narrating most of the 'Look at Life' general interest films shown in Rank cinemas during that period. He also dubbed voices for TV and films, notably that of the star of 'Jason and the Argonauts' (1963) Todd Armstrong, replacing his American accent - although I'm not sure why since the producers used American leads in most of their Ray Harryhausen fantasy movies and didn't dub them.

[@TheFlaneur-up1ft]

That Austin omnicoach would be a desirable way to ferry migrants back to Dover.

[@MrBooojangles]

That guys voice is always on old films like this. Who was he?

[@florjanbrudar692]

Bob Danvers-Walker I don't know if you're still looking for the answer 7 years later

[@clivebuckley6511]

Surely it was Tim Turner?

[@thetiredtomcat]

Humans are happier , calmer and kinder without technology

[@ericatkinson9285]

Happy Days

[@srl6018]

1:46. Now that's how a policeman should look.

[@alanbarden9778]

3:49 Love the wheel shake on the ambulance, of course it's an Austin !!

[@gerryprendergast8810]

The voice is Tim Turner .

[@trondog8503]

Hard to believe this England existed just sixty years ago.

[@noaerrr]

This is an advert lmao, britain has never been or will ever be this.

[@tk-6967]

This is just an advert for Austin products, not reality. Although I do admit that more people walking was a good thing.

[@puppets.and.muppets]

the peak of britain

[@MrModelworx]

Where is reel 1 ?, great video though

[@tonybeards9153]

This was 2 years before I was born……different times 😘

[@andrewrcmadwilkinson6999]

AUSTIN OMNI COACH WITH JIMMY SAVILLE DRIVING 😉

[@stewartellinson8846]

Another piece of cosy myth making; at a time when the vast majority of British people lived in towns and cities, the village provides the core of the narrative, giving us (even then) that warm, cosy nostalgia feeling. Around @5:15 I think the lorry is dropping down the hill towards Machynlleth, with tal-y-llyn in the background

[@PunkRockOilOi]

I used to be a milk boy and we used old BMC with open back jumping on and off the side steps on the dooors brilliant in summer but cold in winter

[@richardfowler9901]

63 was a A reg i think

[@leopoldbluesky]

Not all vehicles registered in 63 were given A reg, it was rolled out slowly depending on what county it was registered with - the days before it was centralised at the DVLC in 1965, when C reg was introduced. I had a 1964 Humber that had no reg letter.

[@eddkennedy6458]

No migrants.

[@ahassen1236]

Why did people sound different then or was it the technology of the day that deformed the vocals?

[@julianwalls1077]

BBC trained 😂

[@essexpeter6116]

Received pronunciation, dated, but at least you could understand every word.

[@CherylBeatrice-j4x]

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@marvwatkins7029]

@ 5:24: It as indeed quite nice and oh so reassuring to see that roadside fence with several posts missing on what appears to be a cliff. Could it also have been the last thing a driver saw? One hopes he or she was not driving an Austin. No offense to all you Austin lovers out there. I'm just 'sayin' '.

[@philipmason3218]

Not a single gimmigrant in sight.

[@essexpeter6116]

Oh dear oh dear. I think you will find 'Great' Britain was already hauling in shiploads of immigrants by this time to do jobs that the home grown did not want. They just would not be seen in the idyllic villages or smart parts of town. On the vehicle note, most of BMC's problems and, later those of British Leyland, were caused by poor management and resting on laurels, as it were. Self important union leaders also had a hand.

[@ungurdani8346]

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