Design For Work - Reel 2 (1958)

Reel 2.
Man lifts milk churns onto back of lorry. C/U milk bottles. Milk man delivers milk to woman in row of country cottages. C/U woman smiling and chatting as she receives her two bottles of milk. Austin van going round corner near village green. Policeman and man chat outside building. Young boy and girl wave at Austin omni-coach which is being used as a school bus. They run from their house to climb into the minibus type vehicle with other school friends. The minibus pulls away from the house where the children's mother can be seen waving them off. The minibus travels along a country road. The children inside sit and talk to each other. More shots of the minibus on the road.
Small Austin van driving past country church. A butcher's van (one of the Austin half ton range) pulls up outside shop. A horse and rider walk past. C/U man opening back of van. The school minibus continues on its journey. Inside one of the young girls waves to someone through the window. The local policeman can be seen to wave back. More shots of the children. The minibus pulls up outside the village school and the children get out and run into the playground. C/U woman rings school bell.
Small fire engine drives down town street. Its bell is ringing. Inside shot of cab showing silhouettes of the firemen wearing their helmets. Firemen arrive at scene of fire. Smoke coming out of house. Fireman plays hose onto house. Firemen run from fire engine. C/U fireman spraying water. Interior of burning house two firemen wearing breathing apparatus carry injured man out. Flames are clearly visible. Exterior of house, the firemen carry the victim out while their colleagues continue to use their hoses. Two ambulance men help carry the man away. C/U fireman using hose. Man on stretcher carried away to ambulance accompanied by nurse. The man is loaded into the ambulance and the nurse climbs in alongside him.
The firemen continued to spray water from their hoses onto the burning house. The ambulance drives through the streets. Inside the ambulance the nurse attends to the injured man. She checks his pulse. C/U ambulance driver. C/U speedometer seen through steering wheel. Ambulance continues its journey. Nurse continues to look at patient. C/U ambulance driver. The ambulance drives in to the hospital grounds. The injured man is lifted from the ambulance and carried into the Casualty ward.
Austin articulated lorry drives along country road. C/U driver. The lorry continues on its journey through picturesque countryside. Lorries drive away from the building site. A man in the foreground picks up a hod full of bricks. (Quick sequence) Men working on hot metal lorry parts. Scientist looks at chemical liquid in tube. Ambulance on road. Scientist looking down microscope. Austin school mini bus. Scientist looking at results appearing on printout. C/U lorry wheels on cobbled test track. Man using machine tool to grind engine parts. Van going through splash test. Technician in cab noting times. Results of test drawn onto paper by machine. Man drawing on drawing board. Man looking intently at something. C/U dial. Drop hammer hitting red hot metal. Van pulling hard as it drives up hill. Austin Gypsy four wheel drive vehicle in field of sheep. Articulated lorry arrives at docks (Austin cars parked in background). Lots of different types of Austin lorry and van drive past Austin factory building. 'The years have proved, you can depend on an Austin' - says the voice over.
The End. Produced by Associated British Pathe for the Austin Motor Company.
Note: Colour is faded on this print and some parts are scratched. Never the less lots of nice shots. Reel 2 used to be reel 3. Documentation consists of script.
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[@user-tx7ki7jo4x]

Back to the good old days when Britain was great

[@robharding4028]

Back when Britain was still great !

[@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....

[@rp1645]

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

[@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?

[@eddiekennedy7394]

Great piece of British history thanks for posting

[@alanbarden9778]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@ericatkinson9285]

Happy Days

[@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.

[@ncrongendov733]

Humans are happier , calmer and kinder without technology

[@user-gm6lc7py5x]

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

[@srl6018]

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

[@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?

[@tonybeards9153]

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

[@andrewrcmadwilkinson6999]

AUSTIN OMNI COACH WITH JIMMY SAVILLE DRIVING 😉

[@MrModelworx]

Where is reel 1 ?, great video though

[@gerryprendergast8810]

The voice is Tim Turner .

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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' '.

[@buy.to.let.britain]

the peak of britain

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