Melbourne to Sydney in the 1950's

[@diamondmidnightgardener]

Ahhh the 1950s when orchestras were always drunk

[@Gregemio]

Ahhh the 1950s when radiation was the best thing since sliced bread.

[@antigravity83]

Absolutely hammered!

[@middlecovemotors2474]

Champagne Comment

[@masondegaulle5731]

And presenters sounded like they were mid prostate exam

[@diamondmidnightgardener]

@@masondegaulle5731 that is gold!🤣

[@jamieb8112]

I love watching older videos of Australian life. Great video, thanks for sharing.

[@KingofKings11312]

Help to clothe and feed Now they’ve turned on there own people to jab and succeed.

[@jamieb8112]

@@KingofKings11312 WTF are you even talking about??? 🤷‍♂️

[@craigroaring]

@@jamieb8112 I don't know, but it did rhyme.

[@philipmann9548]

What a great country and nation. I will never forget the 1960s when 40 mph was fast in the old eh holden 149 3 on the tree straight 6. Roughly 50 odd kw. Baby in the boot. Trailer on the back. About 12 hrs from sydney to wodonga. Picnic bbq on the way. Sandwiches for breaky and dinner. Arnotts biscuits for snacks. Just wonderful memories. No maccas no takeaway. All healthy family fun. No A/C, powersteer, electric windows, electronics or tvs or electronic games. Just books, the everwonderous view out the window and BP spotto. Great days alright.

[@Kinghassz]

The food doesn’t sound that great though, just sandwiches and biscuits.

[@trueaussie9230]

@@Kinghassz Yeah. Fat and sugar laden maccas is much better. 🤮🤮

[@philipmann9548]

@Damo classic

[@listohan]

At least the long drops by the side of the road are still there. Enjoy.

[@yeahgoood]

You put the baby in the BOOT ??

[@Detroit8V92tta]

Nothing has changed. In Victoria we fix the roads by reducing the speed limit.

[@davidpearn5925]

The result of being scammed by the various Kirribilli governments………intent on buying Sydney’s famous western suburbs marginal electorates.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

oh the politicians fix roads in queensland by illegally selling our roads off to private corporations that then charge tolls to travel. it's unconstitutional. theyve illegally sold off all the other public utilities too. the problem is the government's are all private companies too. all under direction of united nations and not Australians. unbelievable they've gotten away with it so far.

[@davidpearn5925]

@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 stay undercover sonny…..your NWO conspiracy is showing.

[@robertmorris6529]

@@davidpearn5925 Do you still believe NWO future is not real?

[@davidpearn5925]

@@robertmorris6529 that would require exceptional bureaucratic efficiency……..not bloody likely. If Q is pushing it then it must be fodder for the gullible.

[@jackelbrash3444]

All those roads are in better condition than the town i live in now .

[@danrobinson572]

What town is that?

[@nothinyaseehere9449]

@@danrobinson572 ya mums

[@danrobinson572]

@@nothinyaseehere9449 I’m going to hide your legs 🦵 so you can’t ride anymore

[@nothinyaseehere9449]

@@danrobinson572 you know where ya find me…

[@Angryetigaming]

@@danrobinson572 ride what?

[@aussietaipan8700]

"Road courtesy is a big part of road saftey" a term we are missing in modern times on the roads. Just look at Aussie Dash Cams.

[@thepsychologist8159]

That's it. Road courtesy and courtesy in general. As Patrick Bateman says in the movie American Psycho "We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values".

[@fordfactor]

this sound track needs to be preserved so future generations know the term "wow and flutter"

[@georgebronte840]

My left ear hurt

[@johnbrooks9523]

You kook! It's "woo and flutter" as in slow & fast. I definitely prefer the Australia of yesterday or yesteryear. I still have my FC Holden & my cassettes & my video tapes & I'll never part with any of them. Amazingly, none of that technology, including the FC were even released when this wonderful film was produced. Australia was booming & on her way to rising to her rightful place as a selfsufficient manufacturing nation. Sadly, that was all cancelled in 1979 when global elites decided to commence dismantling our manufacturing & our oil refineries & it was all shipped to Asia as scrap. Average Australians weren't paying attention whilst our corrupt pollies took the bribe money & began pulling our nation to pieces. Now we hit 2022 & it's obvious they want us disposed of, despatched & cleared away for whatever suits their envisaged future. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have lived in Australia when it was booming. Seeing it now is alarming.

[@Elainerulesutube]

Sounds like Brian Henderson.

[@AndreDeLeon02]

@@johnbrooks9523 You gotta get out more mate

[@tonyhayes4980]

That’s funny

[@ANTHONYGL23]

It was 2013 with the Holbrook bypass before the Hume Highway finally became 2 lane dual carriageway the whole way.

[@kenchristie9214]

From the Stuart junction to Holbrook worse the worst part of the Hume Highwayin the late 60's/early 70's. If you did more than 65 mph you seren't speeding you were doing unauthourised low level flying.

[@MrEtnorb]

I worked on some of the Hume Hwy duplications in the 80’s. It might be a boring drive but it’s nowhere as dangerous. One example, before the Sylvia’s Gap section south of Gundagai was bypassed, one person a month was being killed there, such was the danger of it.

[@jimmyohara2601]

1970 was the worst yr 🤪

[@Cruelaid]

12:07 As a fearless teen, used to jump off that bridge into the Murrumbidgee river. North end of Wagga Wagga.

[@glenncourtney7650]

I think I recall this playing in the State Theatrette in Sydney as a child. Filled in between the newsreels re-loading.

[@trackdusty]

Could stay there all day for the price of one admission ticket that the usherette tore in two when you entered.

[@dukesins]

I can still remember watching these 16mm movies way back then (no videos in those days). The musical soundtrack was always 'all over the place'. Such fond memories. :)

[@markissboi3583]

I probably did one of last big 2,500 sheep droving jobs on horseback 1970s Vic after leaving Horsham tech school 74 b4 i went to Melb for a Job . The things ive done most of family forget or never knew about :) Never bored always doing something new tried learning new things tech building adventure .

[@horationelson57]

Such memories huh!

[@12121149]

Love your videos,old aussie,keep em coming!

[@danrobinson572]

Check out the KZbin channel called Gezza1967 or go on Facebook and check out 20th century Melbourne.

[@milanterzic859]

If only they had listened... I started driving on the tail end of the mess. A drive from Sydney to Newcastle on the old Pacific Highway was a nightmare.

[@KB10GL]

I was a little surprised to realise that those kids getting on the school bus in 1957 or '58 were about the same age as me, & I was franticly identifying the vehicles & some of the locations. I got most of them right too, including long forgotten names like Foden & AEC trucks. As a apprentice mechanic in the '60's I worked on many of them too. Ahhhh, memories.

[@merrywave221]

In 1975 I drove my EK Holden from the Northern Territory to Queensland (via Mount Isa & Julia Creek), and much of the highway was still a dirt track (not yet bitumised).

[@thenewvoice8]

One of the ways they destroyed the regional rail network, overhype of the road - then the corruption - and the closure of all the old rail trail stops. Tis a shame. Still, good wee video.

[@geoffprice5357]

Your right, the big picture would have a world class rain system, then we look and decide how the best way to put in a similar road system. Although they should have been done in conjuction with each other. No votes there tho!

[@sigmaoctantis1892]

I noticed that, "...when goods were moved by OTHER means." Just don't say railways. Just show how they hold up traffic!

[@drewid1351]

My Grandfather says when he was Young he was driving back of Bourke and he went down one pot hole and it took him half an hour to come up the other side !! and that's with 10 trailers connected to the truck!!.

[@edwardliquorish8540]

The world lost a lot of talented people due to the wars of the 20th century. It was hard to re-build, let alone build for the future after such a loss. Transport and Storage has always been my game. I have enjoyed almost 50 years of learning T and S, and now can share it with young crew coming up through the ranks. Old timers know stuff, that you won't know until you are old. Love is one of many.

[@kazbah1217]

The costs to the consumer for these services now are insane in the membrane 😲

[@buddyrojek9417]

I drove a HT Holden from Brisbane to Melbourne non stop 24 hours

[@tonymccarthy6713]

In 1970 I drove a HT Holden (Monaro GTS350) from Perth to Canberra in 52 hours.

[@buddyrojek9417]

@@tonymccarthy6713 i had only 3 cylinders ))) 3 worked the others used the same amlunt of oil as petrol ciost

[@showusyabits]

I always thought Tasmania was closer to Victoria but gosh dang this 1950's film made a liar of me.

[@marktiller1383]

The guy who drew the map, had to many pots during his lunchbreak.

[@iankearns774]

@@marktiller1383 Back in the day, I loved the liquid lunch on payday. Problem was we never got any work done when we came back from lunch. Plus half an hour always became an hour.

[@martinkuliza]

of course mate, didn't you know that Tassy was under the great Australian Bight, Mate... fucking Geography dude :P

[@iankearns774]

@@dynevor6327 Still had to punch the card and clock off.

[@iankearns774]

@@dynevor6327 A bloke got sacked for clocking off a few mates cards. Would have been about 1987, after that they had a camera installed. As long as we got back in one piece and finished the day the bosses never complained in fact sometimes they were there with us. Victorian Government Printing Office, like all Government jobs. It was pretty slack and cruizy. I left in 1989 as I found it boring.

[@BuckHudz]

This video is like found footage after an apocalypse, echoes from the golden age before the downfall.

[@DavidNotSolomon]

Yes, the joint has been wrecked now. Cities are ugly ruins of what they once were.

[@garbagebanditdayz819]

Fallout Australia

[@horationelson57]

I know! Mr Magoo-like fool, ensconced in The Lodge a.k.a our detestable prime monster, Albasleazy

[@trackdusty]

@@horationelson57 True, but it didn't all happen yesterday.

[@noelgibson5956]

Back in those days, even the truck drivers were slim and clean shaven! 😃👍

[@keithprice475]

And dressed like navvies! They were slim for good reasons - less horrible truck stop food and much more strenuous work.

[@DavidNotSolomon]

@@keithprice475 Yes, my uncle was a truck driver - he was super fit and strong - until they stopped unloading trucks by hand, then he packed on the weight.

[@martinkuliza]

you forgot the most important parts TRUCKS WERE NOT SPEED LIMITED TRUCKIES DIDN'T SPEED TO STAY AWAKE

[@tepidtuna7450]

I laughed when they said it is too inefficient to keep building roads and bridges the way they did. These days it still takes 4 bloody years to upgrade a 1.5 km stretch, even with all our "modern" methods. Pollies don't want efficiency, they want jobs, and..... We could upgrade more roads with the same money if we kept improving our methods. Such a waste.

[@smitajky]

Instead of sending a truck out with hot tar and stone to fix a fault, as in this video, it is left until it gets so bad that a stretch of road has to be ripped right up and rebuilt. Efficiency?

[@jamesgovett3225]

What’s with the couta standing on the side of the semi trailer at 2.28? Also I remember the days when petrol engines out numbered diesel engines in semis and that dodge prime mover would have had a car derived sidevalve six in it and they used to chain or strap up a 44 gallon drum as a long range fuel tank when operating on the interstate as this dodge has akso

[@charris939]

12:10 Hampden Bridge in Wagga Wagga was to be in use another 40 years well after its use by date.

[@Invictus357]

The duplication highway, from Geelong to Colac finally got finished in 2019, after 30 odd years in the making. Politicians, you have to love them, and their pig troughs. The story never changes in Australia.

[@barrymcdonald9868]

and you had to edit that rubbish comment?

[@johnbrooks9523]

@@barrymcdonald9868 Gee, thanks Barry. Nothing like a wonderful commendation from an intellectual giant like yourself. Too many "vaccines" maybe? There seems to be a growing army of helpful hinters like you. I might write to big pharma & suggest they alter the brew in their erm... treatments, since the adverse affects are discusting.

[@Invictus357]

@@barrymcdonald9868 Your problem with my comment?

[@nosferatut9084]

@@johnbrooks9523 Good to see someone's wide awake 👍.

[@georgebronte840]

Now we have new streets and install impediments and suspension killers called "safety speed bumps" that slow down careful drivers but never the SUV's

[@lifelongbachelor3651]

australia was a paradise in the 50s and 60s.

[@johannbrandstatter7419]

Depends what you call " paradise ".... Tastes differ - as they say !

[@lifelongbachelor3651]

@@johannbrandstatter7419 errr... no. and please spare us the multiculturalism bs...

[@wizzard5442]

@@nickball2009 Play the race card when its totally irrelevant.

[@johnbrooks9523]

@@wizzard5442 Isn't it amazing how these expert play the victim retards just can't help themselves? They just beg for a smack in the mouth... But, if you give 'em what they beg for, you're a racist, or a coloniser, or a biggot or a terrorist, or an extremist. They love to come out & play here because they can antagonise & torment & think they can get away with it. It doesn't pan out that way... A germ is a germ & giving 'em a gentle spray of disinfectant seems to shut 'em up.

[@ChasingDragons420]

@@nickball2009 racist.

[@rodgeorge7244]

Nothings changed which is really a sad indictment on the Governments in this country

[@barrymcdonald9868]

tears

[@Jesse-B]

Apparently in the 1950s, some UTAH construction corporation offered to build a four lane divided road between Melbourne and Sydney, in return they wanted tolls for ten years, at which point they would hand it over to the Australian people. That was intolerable at the time an was rejected. Jump forward 60 years and look at how state governments have prostituted themselves to foreign corporations and countries, example chairman Dan with his Chinese "belt and road", (whatever tf that means), and the endless toll roads feeding billions out of the country.

[@doctorbohr1585]

Indeed

[@alexanderSydneyOz]

Cute story, but obviously not true. As if 10 years of tolls in the 50s could have paid for such a road.

[@Jesse-B]

@@alexanderSydneyOz Says you.

[@alexanderSydneyOz]

@@Jesse-B yes, because it's bleeding obvious. Sorry if you can't see that.

[@Jesse-B]

@@alexanderSydneyOz Do you always crash yt comments then get mad because the one you're crashing doesn't agree with you? Your life didn't quite go the way you wanted did it little fella. Don't say sorry unless you actually mean it. Oprah Winfrey espoused the concept that your "personal truth" is okay, right? Now you can feel good again old mate.

[@kiwipirate60]

Those were the days when you could say words like 'men' and openly criticize local, State and Federal governments...

[@WorksOnMyComputer]

Now you can get involved in conspiracies on Facebook and watch Sky News.

[@kitwalker2968]

You're right....anyone who doesn't get what you've just said is living in the propaganda media bubble of uninformed ignorance and slave debt. LOL good luck to them they'll need it very soon.

[@cameronmiles645]

You can’t do that any more???

[@mymiscellaneouscrap1234]

You can’t criticise government or say man?

[@craigroaring]

You can criticize governments. The problem is when providing evidence of their corruption or warcrimes is considered a crime in itself. ie Assange, Snowden etc.

[@allanclell]

Im an interstate truck driver, we do syd/Melb in around 9 hrs today. Those boys were hard. No air conditioning, no brakes, no lights, no horse power.🚚

[@peterglen734]

Does anybody still remember the old coast road from Melbourne to Syney.

[@philipmann9548]

Yes. It was unreal. Lots still the same. A great drive hey

[@50centgotshot9times]

@@philipmann9548 What road is this? i would like to take it when i go soon?

[@ANTHONYGL23]

@@50centgotshot9times It's called The (EDIT:) Princess Highway, or Highway 1. Some of its been replace with new Highway quality road, but still long sections of winding single lane each way remains.

[@50centgotshot9times]

@@ANTHONYGL23 ah ok, I might've been down that road before a long time ago. I do remember highway 1. Thanks very much for reply

[@MrB590]

Love the old vehicle's

[@blankreg3858]

Australia was a prosperous and developing country. Since 1974 successive government

[@blankreg3858]

From both parties have totally fvcked it up through greed and corruption.

[@johnbrooks9523]

@@blankreg3858 Yep, This country took a giant swan dive in 1979. British Leyland was one of the first to pull it's investments out, close up shop & bale out. We're in the death throws now.

[@doctorbohr1585]

Man, 1974 was the greatest year in the Strine popular consciousness. But the 70s were the start of the rot. That was the decade when what Australia really was (an elite first world society) parted company with what we saw ourselves as (bush bashing okkers, who, as alleged underdogs, were entitled to a life of plenty). I think Australia of the 50s and 60s was a more genuinely forward looking country that wanted to shed the "Crocodile Dundee" image.

[@garywisby2892]

Remember going to Sydney a two way track and taking a big risk passing two back to back semi trailers.Sleepng on the side of the road in the car sleeping sitting up with 4 other family members.

[@yabbadabbadoo8225]

Sounds like the Orchestra has been smashing the meds and wine cabinet 😂😂🤣🤣

[@aussiefarmer4955]

Hardly a fat person in sight, fast forward 60 years and they are rolling around everywhere.

[@georgetoma9167]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@noelgibson5956]

These days, the truck drivers are heavier than some of the loads they carry on the back!

[@eddielong8663]

@@noelgibson5956 Same with the women. "Modern women" 🤢

[@time2kickarse]

@@eddielong8663 you mean bush pigs!

[@garywisby2892]

They did die younger my 3 grand parents gone by 62.

[@jolla9963]

70 years on and our road system is still lagging behind by decades. Every year tge roads get worse and all that happens is the speed limit is lowered, how long before it is faster to go by horse drawn vehicles?

[@robertmorris6529]

Horses will cost the environment more than oil fuelled engines ever do , vehicles don't leave manure piles on the road . Joke Joyce !

[@alexanderSydneyOz]

Obviously, this video is about a highway, and that road continues to improve - dramatically - to this day. As does the highway from sydney to brisbane. Not that I agree one bit with lowered speed limits, but that is nothing to do with the state of the roads.

[@tepidtuna7450]

If I hear "it's for your safety again".....

[@johnbrooks9523]

@@alexanderSydneyOz Government is just another word for control. Our governments are plainly fully aware of the mental capacity or lack thereof of the average motorist in this country & they set limits accordingly. Motorists are cashcows & even absolute halfwits gain licenses as is evidenced by the endless damage to vehicles, endless injuries & endless deaths on our roads. The gov is all about the money. They don't give a rat's arse about our welfare. They tax the wages of towtruck & ambulance drivers alike & have crafted everything to turn an endless profit for them & their investor mates. If morons weren't permitted to drive, the gov's mates in finance & insurance would drop billions in annual income instantly. Motoring is a giant rort. If it wasn't, they'd ban low IQ retards from the roads and remove the speed limits since an intelligent lifeform is capable of determining what is or isn't safe regarding their speed. Where I live, the road surface is brutal. Old tracks for horsedrawn vehicles have been fiddled with and are now carrying B-Double trucks on road base to suit horses. I build & maintain roads. We're under orders from penpushing dipshits who sit in hirise airconditioned offices on fat salaries. These bureaucrats suck the value out of everything & the few crumbs passed on to us are insufficient to make decent all weather roads. Get rid of the parasites in admin, get the halfwits off the roads, spend the fuel taxes on road construction instead of fat salaries & bonuses for scum & we could all travel safely.

[@alexanderSydneyOz]

@@johnbrooks9523 wow. That's a gold medal rant, and every sentence an utter load of rubbish. To just point out one thing... The per capita road toll has been plummeting steadily for decades. And Australia, if that's where you are too, had a very low road toll by world standards

[@Wildlifeonwheels]

At 5 40, drove off without closing the tail-gate!

[@blackwoodrichmore4531]

This video is more entertaining & so much better, when you adjust the playback settings to 1.5 times faster... 🤠👍🏻

[@timmydingwall1141]

Looks like we really haven't got things sorted still, considering what they were asking for and needed back then. Yes any type of road building or maintenance just takes too long still today so just how far have we come?

[@darioburatovich2240]

...not too far on Canterbury or Addison Roads....🤣

[@chrisnewman7281]

Melbourne to Sydney in 20 hours eh. To be a few hours spent going through the various towns on the way

[@nicvoid]

So the average speed from Melbourne to Sydney was 50km/h. Brutal!

[@darioburatovich2240]

You could enjoy the view and breath the land, literally...

[@deanpd3402]

Imagine doing it by horse and coach.

[@TimberdeckingnowAuDeckBuilders]

An old video of the problem of road building and maintenance in the 1950’s.....Nothing has changed, we are still confronted with narrow unsealed roads, potholes, single lanes and never ending spot repairs. If the revenue collected from motorists nationwide was used for the purpose intended for just a couple of years, we would not be faced with this ongoing problem. The truth is however, that just a small percentage goes to new roads and repairs. The balance goes into general revenue to fund a myriad of other government programmes and initiatives, whilst registration, fuel excise, GST, tolls and fines keep increasing.

[@PhilMas-d7c]

YES G I WENT TO THE STATE NEWSREELS ALL THE TIME.

[@paulnewton943]

Absolutely loved it!

[@freeman10000]

This film is still 100% relevant in 2022.

[@trento8397]

I like the music

[@thomaselliott573]

The roads now are far superior to 30 or 40 years ago, but even though they were frustrating and got easily choked, there was a spirit of adventure that no longer exists when travelling. The outback was the outback and destinations were not crowded. People and destinations were much simpler. There was far more charm in travelling and people then.

[@darioburatovich2240]

The isolation of distance and difficulty if travelling kept things more "typical", you had to go to see it, and when there, everything was a surprise. Today even international.teavell has no romance in it.You've seen it already in KZbin, TicToc or whatever....and you've cooked the food already, even better than the locals ...sadly comical.this stupid century...😄

[@cliffleigh7450]

At 13:30 Mum sits by while Dad works under his car - supported by a flimsy jack and a couple of dodgy bricks! O,H & S at it's best!

[@person.X.]

yes i was wincing watching that. It could so quickly go pear shaped.

[@zebraz3839]

It’s very interesting to see how Australia looked like in the past

[@ohisww]

......before the 3rd world takeover.

[@zebraz3839]

@@ohisww ok?

[@johnbrooks9523]

@@zebraz3839 I was born in Sydney in '62. Can't comment on the 1950s since that was before my time. Australia was growing in every way when I was a kid. This country boomed until yuppyism took hold in the early '80s. The place is packed full of spoilt greedy whingeing troublemakers now who just don't know what to do with themselves. I would dearly love to take todays people on guided tours back to the '60s & the '70s just to show them how to live, work & think for themselves. What we have going on here now is a seething chaotic blurr, riddled with traps & pitfalls & penalties & taxes & endless profiteering by a legion of grubs in power. I wish I could go back. What we have now is hostile, wasteful & bewildering. You would have loved the Australia I knew. It was truly wonderful. We were the lucky country. Now we get force injected & locked down & brutalised by brainwashed thugs in uniforms. My Grand Dad would be mortified if he saw what has become of his homeland. He drove those yellow & green Sydney City Council Double Decker Buses you see early in this wonderful little movie... He may well have been driving one those you see. He drove buses & his brother drove fire engines. Everything was straight forward. There was next to no "fine print". We knew our responsibilities & everything ran like clockwork. There was no such a thing as an "entanglement" or a misconception. Our lives were so much more simple then. Anxiety was virtually unheard of...

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

This video will be even better in 30 years time, the 2050's, 100 years. Just looking at what some of the cars are worth now $$$$$$$$$$$ and some have gone for ever, none left.

[@bigears4426]

The trucks have that much power they don't slow down on hills anymore

[@timsmith854]

My mate was an interstate truckie and he told me that IPEC trucks stood for I PASS EVERY C**T

[@johnbrooks9523]

@@timsmith854 Sounds right. They carted the contents of our house from Syd to Bris in Oct of '73. They left the locked semi van out on the street outside our house & went on strike. My old man was a mechanic & he cut the lock on the barn doors at the back of that van & we unloaded our shit ourselves. Ipec can get f#@ked. I've bagged 'em ever since. We had a family of 7 & they just left us without even a f#@king knife & fork. We camped on the floor without even a blanket or a pillow while the ol' girl rang 'em all day for 3 days before the ol' man cut their lock off. I don't forget scum.

[@timsmith854]

@@johnbrooks9523 What a bunch of pricks. Lucky that you were not moving to bloody freezing Victoria. I reckon that you would have taken an axe to them. Gonna make sure that I NEVER use their services.

[@sergeant5848]

They're not great at extending the previous road safety and courtesy traits these days either!

[@vitabricksnailslime8273]

It was a pleasure seeing so many recognisable things, from the Hampden bridge in Wagga to Parramatta rd. Can't quite forget that our love affair with cars has cost us plenty though, quite apart from the roads themselves. The curtailment and even destruction of large parts of the public transport system, the social distance this has made between regular people, the contribution to the obesity epidemic, the transformation of our coastline from one of quaint villages into endless suburbia. The knowledge of the greenhouse effect was not widely known at the time, but that's another real cost for us all. In a way, despite the disproportionate road toll quoted here, I really despise our descent into the nanny state when it comes to safety. The ability to jump on and off moving trains, trams, and buses is something the current generation will never know. Hell, you can't even slide down the handrail to a railway platform these days, thanks to the well placed knobs they put on them. The anti fun brigade rules. Still, the sights of some bloke wandering on the edge of a moving truck in thongs, others repairing potholes without so much as a spotter, and especially those working underneath vehicles supported at that corner by a rickety pile of rocks leave a bit to be desired. The good old days never were what they used to be.

[@johnm2990]

I think 50s is about right. Didnt see any EK holdens only FJ FE and FC models all introduced in the 50s.

[@vitabricksnailslime8273]

@@johnm2990 I take it back and will edit that post immediately. I think I must have been looking very casually and mistook obvious Chevvies for EK's. Rewatching (at high speed), every single thing is consitent with the 50's.

[@peterpiper831]

@@johnm2990 They mentioned 1957.

[@nosferatut9084]

So you're saying the " Greenhouse effect " is due to human activity , correct ?

[@dennisneo1608]

Australia is a different country now. 😢

[@rjl110919581]

THANK YOU HISTORY ON AUSTRALIA ROADS AS STILL SAME IN 2019 STILL MAIN ROADS ROUND AUSTRALIA ARE DRIT HIGHWAYS TODAY

[@georgebronte840]

@9:25. I see Tasmania has shifted considerably since the fifties

[@reganbagshaw5992]

Global warming it floated across But in reality up until 1973 or 1974 the whole World was heading towards an ace ice that's what all the press was about and books written about it and all the scientist said so and Pack ice engulfed the UK and in 1973 or 1974 there was a heat wave and it melted the ice and they changed their minds That's 100 percent true crazy but look it up also all the experts said that the world was getting colder up until the heat wave then today's experts changed the data

[@Rob-fc9wg]

They moved it to make way for more international shipping lanes.

[@MrStoudemire11]

What's a Tasmania?

[@grubmuntedlunchbox1599]

@@MrStoudemire11 some country near Australia

[@georgebronte840]

@@MrStoudemire11 A nato, only bigger.

[@riffraff1015]

Loved the production values,god awfull music going at 7 different speeds ,the crooked intro sign at the beginning.Nice.

[@SineN0mine3]

I think the music probably sounded better in the day. It was probably stored on magnetic tape at some point in time before being digitised, and the audio quality has degraded.

[@chuckselvage3157]

It's still the humourless hwy with a ridiculously slow speed limit. Just fly.

[@PhilMas-d7c]

DEAR READER.WE ARE FIGHTING FOR THE GWH/MT VICTORIA/BLACKHEATH BYPASS ROAD TUNNEL/BLU MTS/NSW.PHIL/MT VIC.

[@doctorbohr1585]

It's interesting that 2000 people died on the roads in the 1950s, when the population was ten million-odd, whereas in the 90s about 1500 were dying a year when the population had doubled.

[@petesig93]

1200 road deaths per annum with a population of 25 million now in 2021. In 1970 there was a 1061 death toll in Victoria with a population of just 2.5 million.

[@doctorbohr1585]

@@petesig93 indeed. It is interesting too that the most revolutionary improvements (as far as aggregate numbers are concerned at any rate) came between the 70s and 90s. So I imagine the big differences were brought about by the introduction of RBT, seat belts, better paved roads, and independent rear suspension, along with disc brakes. The development of 5 star safety features in the 2000s didn't really drag the overall numbers down much. But they're a godsend in an individual crash.

[@barrymcdonald9868]

@@petesig93 apples and grapefruit....

[@johnbrooks9523]

@@barrymcdonald9868 ...more wonderful insight from an intellectual giant. So, you have a degree in packing fruit. amazing.

[@moaningpheromones]

@@johnbrooks9523 and fudge packing

[@shedwork]

Old mate ridin' shotgun on the load @ 02:26 classic!

[@HandyAndyTechTips]

All these years later, and the roads in my area are still crappy and full of potholes 😁

[@oliverwendelldouglas2216]

What made me laugh is the in the 1950's they realised that patching potholes was a waste of time .... move forward to 2022 what do they do patch the potholes which last about 6 months... classic example Old Northern Road between Dural and Maroota ( beware there are some huge potholes where you have to cross the double white lines to get around them)

[@moaningpheromones]

never been to aussie but i'll look out for them - cheers.

[@dukesins]

I can still remember how we would open these types of gates with a 'check-key' system at the old Mt. Druitt (NSW) station back in the early 1960's. See at 10:42 in the video

[@Bernie5172]

64 years latter and HWY 1 is nearly 4 lane from Melbourne to Gympie Qld

[@AussiePom]

Roads with single lane wooden bridges are still with us in 2024 but not on main roads like the long narrow wooden bridge at Bulga near Singleton on the Putty road. There's another near Dungog and yet another south of Bombala on the road to Bega and Eden. There are long single steel road bridges at Bingara and Barraba. Getting off the motorway roads onto the back roads is a bit of a time warp in places when it comes to road infrastructure in 2024.

[@russellclark9489]

That sounds like a young Brian Henderson

[@VictorLaMonde]

Wasn't this on an episode of Utopia?

[@thomasburke2683]

This is a film produced on behalf of the road lobby. When it claims that the Australian people would be happy to pay more tax for the construction of new roads and the repair of existing roads, we can take it with more than a grain of salt.

[@dieseldavetrains8988]

Road courtesy has slipped away in recent years, every man and woman for themselves, sod the other driver. Road rage incidents rapidly rising. Just love those old cars in the video, collectors items today! yes, they spent billions on the Hume Highway, pity that an equal amount wasn't spent on our railways, Sydney-Melbourne trains still running on steam train era conditions and track in 2024...🤔

[@gayeflockheart4258]

My parents always said that the 1950's were the best years..the war was over, there was plenty of work, great music and fashion and the Australian dream of owning your own home (and car) was achievable 😊

[@domht]

Famous last words..... In those far off days, they were looking ahead further then we are....

[@fyiaustralia9686]

12:16 - in Wagga. 18:48 - south of Mt Adrah at turnoff to Wagga.

[@letsseeif]

I love the way film units used to talk down to we Australians.(Melbourne 2024).This is only passingly about The Hume Highway 31.p.s. I also think that General Tax Revenue should be sacked on sight. p.p.s. In 2020 going from Melbourne to Canberra necessitated going via the Yass By-pass and onto what can only be thought of as a 'B minus' basic road.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

This is late 1950's. The music is hilariously wobbly, sounds like it's a corrugated record ! Summer Truckie uniform, King Gee shorts and a cap ! lol

[@yeahgoood]

The city may change, but the gronks will always stay the same…

[@reverseuniverse2559]

Had driven on all roads ide say QLD have the worst road and traffic infrastructure and Victoria seem to have the best by far

[@denisovanhybrid9610]

Fantastic

[@jamesgovett2501]

All those grouse old trucks, inters, commers , whites, Leyland and F series Fords a lot of them with petrol engines like most of those old inters with black diamonds and the Fords running 292 Y blocks and white mustangs with sidevalve sixes, those old commers with their 2 stroke 3 cylinder six piston TS 3 diesels and 2 speed diffs in a lot of them and see the old Leylands gradually making headway at just over a walking pace would have been a loud, hot, dirty uncomfortable and exhausting trip up what was little better than a goat track for a number 1 interstate highway in those days, those pioneer old truckies were a bunch of tough men back then! a lot of them would have returned from active service in the Second World war and hocked their balls to buy a rig to start their own businesses and what they didn’t tell you in this film is that the state a federal governments did not want competition from road transport especially the state governments as they taxed them heavily to protect the shit government railways! As a matter of fact a transport company in Sydney back in the day sent freight by two means to demonstrate once and for all the slackarse attitude from the railways and what they did was to ship 2 same packages of freight, one going by train to Melbourne and the exact same other by WHEELBARROW pushed by a team of volunteers in relay and guess what arrived in Melbourne first by a wide margin.. you guessed it the wheelbarrow team and there was a bit of a public outcry on that and from then things eventually started to change!

[@JohnLee-mq4hk]

20 million registered vehicles in Australia now.

[@12121149]

And on the positive,look how far we have came,until now,awesome.

[@DavidNotSolomon]

Yes now the roads are full of potholes that tear your wheel off.

[@FunnyPegasus-gb1jj]

l love a australia and Victoria in the 1950s the roads were pretty rough for transport. roads are important to drive on.

[@Mummabear981]

I see the pothole situation was never solved 11:04

[@MichaelBrodie68]

Made before the world's leading mathematicians discovered the number 1 billion. My new computer has 150 thousand million bytes of memory. That's a lot of millions!

[@billmago7991]

Now we dont patch roads we just surrender and put up a sign ,"beware of potholes "

[@Contender-df2uj]

and we still fix roads the same way . a patch at a time

[@TonyTalks5150]

Ah…. My poor loved starved left ear

[@robertsharp3238]

The way it was FACTS !

[@keithprice475]

My God, I'm SO GLAD I didn't have to drive the roads as they were back then! Mind you, the Federal Highway between Goulburn and Canberra was still life-threatening in places in the late 1980s and it's only now that the Pacific Highway is approaching a complete dual carriage upgrade! Very interesting footage, but why oh why did they have to back these films with horrible, loud out of tune music?

[@keithprice475]

And the blase optimism and propagandist edge definitely grate!

[@rohjoe1969]

I love the orchestral sound tracks on the newsreels of this era. They wouldn’t be the same without them.

[@letzgoshopping3684]

I love that a billion wasn’t invented then, they called it a thousand million. Also love the sass of this narrator 😅

[@DavidNotSolomon]

Yes, only the yanks called 1000 million a billion, for the British and the Aussies a billion was a million million.

[@martinkuliza]

No.. it was invented it's just that 1 thousand Million was indeed 100 x 1 Million 1 Billion was 1 Million x 1 Million it's called the long numbering system and the short we currently use the short Logically - Numbers in the decimal system cycle from 0 - 9 and when you reach 0 again the next place value kicks in and gives you a 1 (No doubt you know this) - so 10 become 100 when 10 turns to 99 then graduates to 100 - it then holds that 10 tens are 100 - it holds that 100 1 hundreds are 1,000 - 1,000 1 thousands are the next name up...1 Million 999,999 upgrades to 1,000,000 1 million and for 1 Thousand to get to 1 Million we need to go through all previous values 1, 10, 100 so 1 Thousand 10 Thousand 1000 Thousand at this point (for everything to make sense) we need to FULLY UNDERSTAND HOW NUMBERS WORK so.... REFRESHER..... THIS IS A NUMBER WE GIVE IT A NAME 18 EIGHTEEN the key here is to focus on the numbers and how they increase as opposed to the name of it the names go like this ONE TEN HUNDRED ONE THOUSAND Now we have to re use all of those TEN THOUSAND HUNDRED THOUSAND Now we need a new name for the next big number we GAVE IT THE NAME MILLION we also made up a fwe more names MILLION BILLION TRILLION QUADRILLION SO we follow the rule of 1, 10,100,1000 before we escalate Now instead of names, let's switch back to number so we have 1 Million 1,000,000 10,000,000 10x is the next step 100,000,000 100x is the next step 1,000,000,000 1000x is the next step at this point we have included another comma, each succession of 3 zero's gets a comma to indicate the next level up (but this is not 1 billion) THE WORD IS THE CONFUSING PART) it's 1,000,000,000 (the word we assign is irrelevant, i could call this Quadrillion, THE VALUE IS WHAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE, the actual value) but it's not 1 billion , it's 1 thousand million then we have 1,000 ,000,000 10,000 ,000,000 10 thousand x 1 million 100,000 ,000,000 100 thousand x 1 million 1,000,000 ,000,000 1 thousand thousand / 1 Million x 1 Million THIS IS WHERE WE GET TO 1 BILLION this is the mathematical original way (Long numbering system) of doing is it's consistent with mathematics since numbering systems were invented the way of writing 1 Billion like this 1,000,000,000 can be challenged and debunked WHICH IS WHY HAD TO INVENT (AND REDEFINE THE PARAMETERS) OF THE SYSTEM AND CALL IT TEH SHORT NUMBERING SYSTEM AND WHAT WAS THAT JUSTIFICATION Basically From now on we are going to write 1 Billion like this 1,000,000,000 SEE.... DEBUNKED Why do you think we suddenly got more billionaires but not more Millionaires ? the billionaires are not really Billionaires they are 1000 Millionaires and to get to a trillion it's 1 Billion Billion and to get a quadrillion is I Trillion Trillion Makes sense right you must use up all the digits to the right before putting a 1 on the left BASIC FUCKING 2ND GRADE MATH so it's not the math that has changed or the place values IT'S THE WORDS THAT WE USE TO NAME THEM THAT HAS BEEN SWAPPED TO A LOWER VALUE AND THERE IS YOUR SOURCE OF CONFUSION

[@DavidNotSolomon]

@@martinkuliza It also confused poor old Russel Crow in the GFC and the press had a field day making fun of him.

[@martinkuliza]

@@DavidNotSolomon at one point, around 15 years ago or so it had me confused as well. it's like.... they just changed the system without telling anyone it seems like (and this is my personal take on it) people had a tough time getting to MILLIONAIRE but billionaire's were hitting a billion so just to make the goal easier they said ... fuck it... We've got 1000 Million that's it.... WE'RE BILLIONAIRES LOL a sort of cheat if you will to convince yourself that you achieved a goal that you didn't that's what i think which if you think about it is now why our national debt is IN THE TRILLIONS but actually it's not , i'ts in the Billions but you see (this is where shit gets deepeer) they can now adjust inflation rates to get more money through taxes to pay a national debt THAT NOW SEEM LARGER THAN WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS it's interesting huh at first it seems like a minor change then you dig deeper and it's like ooooooohhhh is that what they are doing

[@speakfreeley4473]

Bet loads & loads of cars like these shown will be stored in barns/garages waiting to be discovered & mostly saved today.

[@bobolulu7615]

..... I'm hoping to find an XC Cobra amongst that.

[@speakfreeley4473]

@@bobolulu7615 Good luck in finding one.

[@simonf8902]

And country or rural roads are still in bad shape today.

[@cal-king]

The music is making my ears bleed

[@simonolsen9995]

Have another drink and try again. You'll get there.

[@seanswanson1909]

Nothing's changed on Queensland roads in rural areas

[@suzidelarue5344]

No radial tyres no sincromesh drum brakes mostly single lane oh how I miss it

[@batmanlives6456]

Information, much of it , still relevant today … Why do we patch when we could build better and save in the long run …