They Take The High Road - A British Transport Film - 1960

[@YEWGYZE]

That was a great film . Thanks for putting it up .

[@Machrihanish]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

My first truck at age sixteen was a 1966 Dodge pickup. Two years older me. There was no power steering and a largesteeringwheelthat took some muscles to turn., and the windshield washer was a foot powered pump on the floor. Push and squirt. I love old trucks. Some of the trucks in the video came in toy form matchbox brand made by Lindsey in England. My dad would bring me home a different new one in his lucnch pale on paydays when I was a kid. Very collectble. I have a few. Good memories.

[@Machrihanish]

That brings back memories of driving a Bedford with a huge steering wheel, I had forgotten about the foot operated washers, remember them now.

[@robertnoble3768]

I used work for the n a f f I the man who delivered the fruit and vegetables drove a Bedford with big steering wheel this was early seventies

[@bullfrommull]

This is wonderful. Reminds me of my dad. In his Ablion . Delivering coal to Killin and callender.

[@simonjones7727]

I remember the coal coming in sacks to Callander. You put it a bunker outside. Another world.

[@bullfrommull]

@ he used to deliver the coal to old council yard. On the left coming into Callender from stirling.

[@simonjones7727]

@@bullfrommull Yes, that is still a council yard. There were lots of deliveries in those days. Milk, papers, potatoes in sacks, the messages from McEwan's....We have gone back to that in some ways except now we order things online.

[@bullfrommull]

@ it was a Albion Revier. I still have its badge.

[@simonjones7727]

@@bullfrommull i have a Super 8 film that shows Leny Road in about 1972. One of the vehicles that passes is the McEwen's grocery van

[@kevinpennick3604]

My dad drove for B. R. S after leaving the army. Remember those lorries with fondness as a young boy.

[@alexanderlawson1649]

What a snapshot of history, the building of the Glen Lyon Dam, its superb. There is now a good gravel road all round the Dam, its a great ride in the wildest place, equal to anywhere in our devastated land.

[@davedixon2068]

devastated? been a war I didnt hear about?

[@kennyrowat9838]

What an amazing video for a snap shot of the past. A train going along the viaduct to killin, the burn coming down from the loch before the dam. Those dams going up. I will think of those men when i next drive that road.

[@Machrihanish]

These old British Transport Films are a national treasure :)

[@fg-pv5ht]

As a kid in the 60s 70s my dad a truck driver use to take me in his lorry during the school holidays, All the kids in my class use to go on about the cars of that time. Me I knew all the trucks by heart Atkinson, Scamels, Fodens and many more. What I see of the trucks nowadays is how few of these manufactures have survived. Volvo, Scania rule supreme.

[@stevestone4346]

Beautiful film.

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Nice video

[@philosuileabhain861]

I remember these BRS lorries at Preston Dock when I was a kid.

[@plasticbucket]

A champion at keeping them rolling.

[@jacksonpauljackson2557]

My dad used to love his dominones god bless him 😅

[@DavidMartin-ym2te]

Killin only survived another 5 years after this film. Dr Beeching had his way with the branch and the beautiful scenic line up through Glen Ogle to Killin Junction. I believe the new road is still there although overgrown. I have never driven it and might try in the summer - I am only 20 miles away.

[@Machrihanish]

Aye Beeching's policy was the end of many services. Glen Ogle is beautiful, hope you manage a wee trip in the summer.

[@alancumming6407]

@@Machrihanish This stretch of line was cited for closure in 1965 but rockfall/landslide sealed it's fate anyway.

[@Machrihanish]

@@alancumming6407 Thanks for the update Alan.

[@RussellJamesStevens]

Scotland the brave, Scotland the beautiful❤❤❤❤

[@jacksonpauljackson2557]

Thanks for this video loved it 😅

[@andrewsmith-cm9qw]

I think the opening is filmed from The Caledonian Hotel towards The North British Hotel. I worked in the Caley 1978/80 as a Chef.

[@charleyscott4544]

Love glen Lyon, fishing camping below and around the dam lovely place

[@deanwelsh5702]

My heart goes out to them 4 drivers who all died of silicosis of the lungs due to cement dust woodbines and real ale .

[@colintraveller]

Thry also did another film called Highland Journey a few yrs earlier

[@Machrihanish]

They did indeed, you can find it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmPGi4urlMaImJo

[@twozerouk]

Oh dear the BRS artic nearly takes out the cyclist in the opening scenes. I hope those guys at Killin were well paid coping with primitive conditions and tired looking trucks. Interesting that labouriously loaded trucks were off loaded by a fork lift at the dam site in minutes. I first saw the film about 15 years and I've driven their route a few times. It's easy in a car but I recall some ferocious pot holes.

[@Machrihanish]

I think the pot holes reappear regularly, as if by magic :)

[@lynnmorton7544]

Oh, that damn dam! Killin station closed in 1965

[@PhilBurns-oc2vg]

The drivers who complain about working conditions now, should have driven in these days. They wouldn't have lasted a week

[@vapourwaveculture4059]

Apart from the fact the trucks then were about 2cm long and they got paid a fair wage.

[@caldwellfisher5288]

When men were men~ and nobody needed or wanted to ask what a woman was.

[@egbertkuijpers1387]

Does anyone know what is the make of that little green van at about 14:00? Cute one... Great documentary, fantastic to see how hard it was to drive these trucks, compared to the ones of today😃👍🏼

[@Aminutetomidnight]

It's a Morris Commercial I think.

[@Machrihanish]

Agree, a Morris Commercial J-type.

[@Aminutetomidnight]

@@Machrihanish I wasn't sure if Austin had a version of the same thing but with the Austin name on it, It's a long time ago now.

[@Machrihanish]

@@Aminutetomidnight Pretty sure its the J-Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Commercial_J-type

[@Aminutetomidnight]

@@Machrihanish it was my first instinct. Happy to go along with your opinion. My favourite van of those times was the Bedford Dormobile though.

[@bigcasey4143]

Ahhh.... The year I was hatched.... When the world was at a slower pace.... And 5 years later a certain Dr Beeching killed off the Killin Branch railway, along with many others...

[@HarryCurrie-o3v]

When truckers where real drivers no power steering or automatics no fancy sleeper cabs and they had to rope their loads

[@69spook]

And before the term trucker came to the UK 😂

[@antpx]

So we should all have to suffer in the name of "the good old days"?? It's progress, those drivers would have loved power steering and automatic gearboxes, never mind a "fancy sleeper cab. Some loads are roped, proper roping is a skill on it's own. But for the vast majority of loads, it wouldn't be safe.

[@KevinPhelann-gc1tu]

And cover with heavyweight canvas often wet or frozen in the wind along a dockside had to be lifted from the ground to the top of the lode at least 1htw dry a 40f would take 3 covers.

[@troublebrewing99]

And most of them were crippled from it.

[@KeithDeley]

Lorry drivers actually trucker is an American term.

[@Peter-cz8hx]

reminds me of hell drivers with sean connery and others.

[@puppets.and.muppets]

They get high on the road. 1960

[@Machrihanish]

There's always one :)

[@briansearle4138]

You can see how ww2 was won , tuff British men .

[@lliambunter]

He cut that cyclists a bit short in the opening

[@corvus1238]

I was living in Scunthorpe in 1960. I was 6 years old.

[@alexanderlawson1649]

I wasnt living in Scunthorpe in 1960, I wasnt born till 1961

[@anthonysprinks1253]

Can you actually be alive in Scunthorpe?

[@RobbieOrr-rq1rw]

Correction, this was back when these tough, hard as nails blokes, were "Lorry Drivers", not truckers, thats a stupid American term, these blokes were the salt of the earth, my Grandfather and three of my uncles were "Lorry Drivers", they were real men, not like these wet, weak blokes, who drive around now, in their air conditioned, automatic geared, big sleeper cabs, they couldn't handle the life of a Lorry Driver, from back then, they are far too soft.

[@fg-pv5ht]

Your right I find myself saying truck and truck drivers it was then lorry or lorries

[@DaimlerSleeveValve]

I had a great uncle who was a lorry driver. He gave it up when he realised he made more money by singing in Working Mens' Clubs. He and his wife, who took the bookings (and the cash) travelled the north of England by train and bus, though he had a car for daytime.

[@DaimlerSleeveValve]

My great grandfather was a LURRY driver. That's a flatbed four-wheeled cart, pulled by horses. His eldest son had the same job, and served through the Great War delivering supplies to the front.

[@ruthbees7214]

No wonder they were big strong lad's with Bert size meal,s inside them proper job. They don't make them like that anymore. 😂❤Ruth