Part 1: 1950's BTF "Ferry Load" ~ BRS Transport Tilbury-Antwerp & Preston-Larne ~ Pickfords
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1950's British Transport Film "Ferry Load" telling the story of the cross channel vehicle ferry service from Tilbury to Antwerp on "Bardic Ferry". Featuring lorries transporting Radiography equiptment to Cologne, Whitbread beer to Brussels, machinery to Milan and Edwards sausages from Manchester destined for somewhere in Europe!
Brtish Road Services (BRS) Continental Ferry Service and Atlantic Steam Navigation Co Ltd do their part in the UK
Period trucks including Leyland, Morris, Bedford J Type & TK, Scammell, International, Kew Dodge, etc, on both sides of the channel work in unison to ensure the boats sail on time.
Archive footage shows the beginning of transport ferries for civilian use in 1947 using tank landing craft "Empire Cedric" from Preston to Larne, Northern Ireland
Watch Part 2 for the full story and a Postscript update from 1961
P.S. If you spot any other makes/models of truck let me know and I'll add them to the Tags!!! ;)
Thanks for watching ;)
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Great musical score!
In an age when we manufactured. So sad so much has disappeared.
Old trucks are the best British classics
These later ferries look like what was sold to New Zealand for north island to south island ferry service in the late 60s to mid 80s they carried passagers, cars, trucks and locomotives with freight!😮
For some reason this came up on my recommended for you list. Rather nice that it did, my dad worked in Tilbury for the Mercantile Marine Office. Obviously I grew up not that far from Tilbury, the docks have changed enormously, these days it's mostly car imports and container traffic. Purfleet deep water berth which is a little further upstream from Tilbury is the busy trailer port these days with daily sailings to and from Zeebrugge and Rotterdam. There's currently a major roadwork development nearing completion to take the heavy vehicles away from the existing entrance which impinges on the residential part of the village.
Ahh when we made everything,
worked for Townsend Thoresen and for P&O Ferries....nice to see the history of it.
BRS, that brings back memories and the days before Europe's biggest car park the M25.
Wonderful, simply wonderful. The past certainly is a foreign country.
a beautiful piece of transport history in film, thank you.
Thank you, 👍Great Post .
An interesting bit near the start, the shot where a lorry turns left and you can see Brent Cross Garage in the background...... That was where the M1 and A5 now converge upon a 6 lane super highway North Circular Road! Nothing left around there now of old London, either in infrastructure or local culture........
@fenpikey
5 ай бұрын
I was wondering if it was maybe the olde A1/Great North Road Junction til I see this comment 🙂
Wonderful. I guess the Edwards Leyland is the firm Louis C Edwards from the family of which Martin Edwards later became the Chairman of Manchester United. Remember London Carriers well.
Thanks for sharing this superb film. The score so far for lorry makes: AEC Mercury @ 2:03, Atkinson @4:16, AEC Mandator @5:18, Ford Thames@4:27, Commer Superpoise@9:55, Bussing (German)@14:33 and an ex US Army Mack@14:51.Might be more yet as I'm certain to watch it a few more times.
Not totally sure, but I think the man talking to the shipping agent in his office at the start was Richard Pearson. The actor who voiced Mole in Cosgrove Hall's version of The Wind in The Willows.
@tdr2512
10 ай бұрын
And played Victor Meldrews brother in One foot in the grave. Alfred I think.
Mighty fine indeed.
I think ,the Reasons because we like Vintage Style so much in our times is : in this Film it looks all gentle and not to much Stress and comfortable for the people - i like this type of Film very much , but i think that the Workers of yesterday had a very hard job - finaly the best : they havent Mobil,s ;-)
6:04 this is the original thomas cook ltd which started transporting passengers in 1948
God that is one early tilt trailer 🎉
Im a 1954 model and isnt it great to see all the unique makes to different countries.It made going abroad an true adventure. Exciting times up to the early '70s I guess. Now its all the same wherever you go, shame, just eurotrash. Nostalgia isnt what it used to be. Wonderful film.
The world is a very much smaller place now than when I was born
2:50 Oh, a Matrix Grinder, qualitiy from Coventry.
Great video. Wonderful insight to transport history.
This is good. Not only did we invent the RoRo ferry , but it illustrates our part - via trade and standardisation- in the eventual inception of EEC. DeGaul was right to oppose us. We did become the big noise/bully as he predicted. If only we’d listened
@fredbailey2076
10 ай бұрын
i remember them days ive got a load for Milan when will it get there
I really enjoyed that.
That's some undertaking if our driver left Tilbury on Wednesday and made it to Italy by Friday. Incredible. I wonder if they double shifted the vehicle!
@andybennett1133
9 ай бұрын
1 hit
Thanks for posting, brilliant film
1:27 'ere what's Father Courtnay from When The Boat Comes In doing in trade...
Great to see a company I used to work for in this video.
@NitroNoriFan
9 ай бұрын
Which company?
@seanvernon5549
9 ай бұрын
@@NitroNoriFan London carriers
Interesting film. Thanks for sharing.
I remember they guy who said you wouldn't believe me if I said no, (the one smoking the pipe) in many films and black and white t.v programs but then again I'm older than the film, he seemed to be what would be called a character actor
@andymcdowell8239
Жыл бұрын
Richard Pearson. Had a film/tv career stretching from 1947 to 1996 and yes, a dependable character actor. Rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in WWII.
I noticed at 6 mins after measuring the length of the Van the measured the width across the cab which was narrower than the box
I enjoy this film but I got thinking how many of these firms are still trading 😊
Great stuff..thanks for taking the time to load this on..
@johnpearson1543
5 жыл бұрын
aussiebigbangers
Strange route from South of the Thames to not go via a Kent port! I just read up, this ferry opened before the Kent services!
With the new P and O pioneer theres no need to turn around and reverse into the berth now, a great idea, wonder why it wasn't done years ago.🤔
Martin Edwards, Louis Edwards son also Manchester United Chairman,many years ago?
Great film but couldn't believe how the Manager spoke to the client at the beginning of the film; no wonder British exports declined from the 50's onwards!
@folksinger2100
4 жыл бұрын
Its called English Exceptionalism part of the mental condition that leads to being the sick man of Europe
@djlewis5149
3 жыл бұрын
Err I think they were actors
@studebaker4217
3 жыл бұрын
The caller was their Italian agent, and the guy in the office was a colleague, so more understandable?
so it ships fish and chips to Antwerp and brings back sausages and waffles ? NICE ! 🤣😂😇
@bonkeydollocks1879
2 жыл бұрын
Sausages went out
Machine tools and injection moulding machines made in Britain and bought by Italy? Well I never! You mean this actually happened?
This country is not the same GB??? Thanks for the films times are changing
Good old Days!!
@carloslopes5831
4 жыл бұрын
@steady eddie I hope so!!!! Thks.
@folksinger2100
4 жыл бұрын
@steady eddie lots of paper work, crap trucks, crap cars and crap clothes.
@folksinger2100
4 жыл бұрын
@steady eddie Having started work in the 1960's I can recall just what a dismal grey place when your choice was either third rate or nothing. It is no wonder that recreational drug use became so widespread to escape the situation.
@folksinger2100
4 жыл бұрын
@steady eddie just a really crap time
@jet936 Brilliant!! thanks for that.....you obviously know your stuff!!! You might enjoy my other BTF uploads too ;)
Edwards Sausages - would that be anything to do with Louis Edwards, who became Chairman and majority shareholder in Manchester United?
@johnvanstone5336
2 жыл бұрын
Yes
Not a container in sight. Containers changed everything.
@peterdavidson3268
3 жыл бұрын
@steady eddie Not really @steady eddie - Freight Containerization was pioneered in the USA, which helps to explain why container sizes are described as Twenty Footers and Forty Footers - the technical term TEU is an acronym for Twenty Foot Equivalent - the capacity of container ships is still measured using TEU unit numbers - this despite International Shipping, in common with all other cross-border activities, utilising the metric measuring system. It is fair to claim that the advent of the Common Market (or European Economic Community to use a more accurate term) coincided with the explosive growth of international trade in general, and containerized freight movements in particular, during the relevant period, ie. from late 1950s onwards, but the two factors are not directly connected.
@bonkeydollocks1879
2 жыл бұрын
@@peterdavidson3268 what's that got to do with there being no containers in sight in the video?
Why did only the trailers go to Europe. And not the whole shebang? Did it not make sense to send the tractor unit to say Italy France or Germany?
Hardly any sleeper cabs then 🎉
Cordless phone?
Bardic ferry was scrapped in 1988 in Turkey.
@catherinemassey2834
4 жыл бұрын
@Mike Lloyd yuppy preston dont you mean yucky prestonastan
@catherinemassey2834
4 жыл бұрын
@Mike Lloyd yes looks normal left wing pillock just seen all the Hindu and lezzer shite on his facebook page
back when Britain was a first world country.
Thomas cook
Smart clothes worn back then
I know that actor but I forgot his name the shop steward at the beginning in the office after the phone call very well-known did he do children's television
@tomkent4656
Жыл бұрын
Richard Pearson.
@annoyingbstard9407
10 ай бұрын
And Gary’s dad in Men Behaving badly.
Not a computer, mobile phone or motorway in sight ! The days when we manufactured things, even owned things. Meat and sausages transported in non refrigerated lorries? 🤔. The beginning of the RoRo system, now largely replaced by containers and ships so huge they have to create deep water harbours to accommodate them. I suppose it’s progress but fuelling a consumerist Society? Are we really any the better for it?
Oooh, look. The 1950s, just where Brexit is taking us (but without the forward-looking vision and hope).
What we bought and sold from europe before the eu, surly this is fake before the eu you would be lucky if you sold a postage stamp outside the uk without a war
@markrichards636
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed, must be fake pro-Brexit lies. Surely European trade didn't happen before we joined the great the EU....
@folksinger2100
4 жыл бұрын
The Preston stuff went to Northern Ireland, the European trade was a shadow of what it was as members of the EU
@Richard-pe4cx
3 жыл бұрын
GROW UP YOU WON GET OVER IT
I blame Brexit, LOL!
This shows that Britain is the greatest nation on earth. We still rule the world in every respect and make a mockery of dumb countries like France and of course the United States of racist America. I was born in Preston and worked on these ferries from 1957 until the mid 70s and can honestly say it was one of the best jobs I've had. Watching this brings back a lot of happy memories of a time when Britain was truly British. No Arabs or Asians destroying our beautiful country (nothing against those from the Caribbean or West Indies)
WHEN MY BELOVED ENGLAND WAS WHITE R.I.P ENGLAND
@barryburton7755
10 ай бұрын
now its like a rainbow there all here for benifits