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In my opinion, the greatest and most exciting aircraft ever built.

Anyone know what year this was

Whenever I watch this type of video I never see a mention of Seddon / Seddon Atkinson. I worked there in Oldham / Shaw for 14 years, from 1968 to 1982. Why don't they get a mention ?

Do anderson still have tipper trucks

40mins Jaffa. Amazing 😂

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I went to Larkhall Academy in the 90's, well I was meant to but this was my back door and It wasn't shut off back then IV absailed it been chased down catwalk half of the planks gone, steaming drunk. Ask about the hexagonal's, the steel girders on the underside. Thank fuck we never had smartphones in the 90's

Wonderful vehicles & wonderful scenery ❣

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Wonderful speakers and not a single "like".

A wonderful way to spend a Thursday morning listening to a fabulous concert that I attended in 1994. Lots of “kent” faces in the choir though sadly quite a few are no longer with us.

Great video thank you 😊

As a career railwayman I guess the magic word Shap flagged this up(!) First I thought "Oh God, just stuff for lorry cranks", but hey what a brilliant documentary of our social history that often doesn't get aired. Funny how things age - I had imagined it was made in early/ mid 90s but astonished to see it was as recent as 2005. Thanks.

Brilliant bit of history here.

Much as I've enjoyed watching regular footage from of work on the new stand I think once every 4-7 days would be fine now. Not enough happening or left outside for frequent videos.

British trucks were never driver friendly imagine atkinson were still.making wooden cabbed vehicles in early 1970,with no heater to keep you warm british trucks were made for haulage bosses not for drivers who would sleep on wooden planks with a blanket over them for 10shillings night out money then along came volvo F88 the shed on wheels as we called it ,and scania we could not believe the refinement in these vehicles which were better work spaces for drivers british truck makers did.try to compete but to late i for one ex truck driver was glad to finish my driving career on a continental truck which were superior in every way to fodens,ERF,seddons;Atkinson,Leylands,scammels and the rest of british trucks the. People who praise them were not the ones who.had to make a living out of them they.were Crap .😢

Tartan Squadron ! All Sam Anderson’s worked bloody hard for a living

I live in the US now and been asked many times where did the term lorry come from ,i can only think its from locomotive on road ? Any answers anyone !!😊

Hold on to your arse

Thanks so very kindly for this video!😊

Imagine when each country in Uk had it's own motor companies until England decided

The switch from backing the manufacturing industries to money laundering via our financial institutions destroyed all our industry for the sake of greed. The lorries, cars, aircraft, aerospace, ships and most if not all of our other major industries. Why invest in the UK when you can scam a nation abroad elsewhere via stocks and shares, money markets, off shore trusts and laundering. They were only ever there for the common man when it made them money, always was always will be.

Absolutely fascinating - been through there many times but mostly on the railway. Loved the vintage vehicles.

Did the run from Manchester to Carlisle a couple of times back in the late '60s, driving an AEC Militant towing a 2 ton Sentinel trailer - both loaded to the gunwhales with Chieftain power packs!

Thank you for this film, it was marvellous. Lots of memories from my childhood traveling the A6 south and back north to my hometown of Carlisle. To visit family down south at Christmas Easter and summer holidays. Blackpool Holidays during wakes week with my family from Clydebank and been part of the long traffic jams (No road rage back then just friendly people in the same situation). Trips to Blackpool to see the lights and Morecambe on the Ribble Service Buses as a teenager with friends and lift, with Border Transport company drivers many of my friends Dads worked for this company whose base was situated close to our house. I attend a Christmas Ball at Shap Wells Hotel and was snowed in for an extra 12 hours. I certainly had better food in the jungle café which was like a melting pot of travellers relieved they had made it up the fells. You would have thought they had climbed Everest. When Cumbria was created in April 1974 through an amalgamation of the administrative counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. I drove once a month for four years to Kendal for meetings. I saw to old A6 change into a much safer road. Sadly, Shap village was detoured in favour of the reroute M6 to the A6. Which I used during the summer to see the amazing scenery. Come winter it was The M6 route further south and safer.

Thast operl Blitz truck is something else.

when life was good! bless you all

Unfortunately a downturn in the market in the early 70s seems to have hit Foden hard, tragically for the firm it came along just as an expansion of the site was being done. They struggled on but ended up being absorbed and no longer exist. A regrettably familiar fate of many a British manufacturer, global events don't seem to favour us all that much.

Did you mention the AEC company ….. AEC was in existence from 1912 to 1979. To remind everyone, they built London’s omnibuses for 67 years. They also pioneered the development of the straight-six Diesel engine, in collaboration with RICARDO performance tuning. AEC engines started under all conditions without heater-plugs to assist. Their heavy duty MATADOR army lorry was very necessary for moving large loads and one of their AMOURED COMMAND VEHICLES captured after the retreat from Dunkirk was used personally by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. The AEC MANDATOR V8 was the first to commercial to experiment with 8 cylinder engines ❤

well the a6 is now the m6 and the era those old lorries were from was closer in time to this video being made than this video is to us.

Thank you for this wonderful film. Dad was a lorry driver, started with horses hauling sand and seaweed off the beach in Leith, had his HGV by the time he was 16 pre ww11. Worked for BRS from their Eastfield terminus, but my memories are from the days he ran fish. I was born in 1953 and was truck nuts from the get go. I would spend summers driving him around the bend begging him to take me with him. I recall one summer possibly 63, while he drove for I believe was Payton who was the transport arm of Walter Payton Trawler owners. That summer which was probably a normal occurrence they where fishing off the west coast of Scotland, and the trawlers where unloading at Ardrossan in Ayrshire. I’ll skip the details about that process of unloading the fish, but there would be four or five lorries assigned to various fish markets in the uk with the catch. Being I was about 10 years old please excuse me if I didn’t get the model of the lorry right, but it was an AEC Mercury ? It was an Artic pulling a BTC aluminum decked 4 in line ? ( the tires where side by side, and each set of 2 pivoted independent of the other set of 2. It must have been difficult to service the inner two tyres ). Anyway, coming out of Ardrossan was an unusual occurrence for me as we usually ran east coast roads when going south of the border. The two trips I recall, the first one we ran was the the fish market in Grimsby, the second trip was to Hull. I’m not sure if we went over Beattock Summit, or Shap, but I do recall the long drags up the hill where it was an opportunity for me to get rid of the two bottles of Pepsi Cola I drank before we left Ardrossan by opening the door and relieving myself while the lorry pawed it’s way up the hill at a crawl. Speaking of doors and coach built cabs, if you’ve ever seen the BRS documentary They Drive the Highroad, about the four drivers running bagged cement up to a dam site in the highlands, the interior shot of one of the drivers, the space between the drivers door, and the door frame, birds could fly in and out through there ! I owned 2 cab over Kenworths that had doors like that ! Anyway this life ended shortly after by Dec 65 when we emigrated to Southern Ontario Canada. Dad got off the road, and ended his working career as a crane operator at the local power station. When I finished high school I severed my apprenticeship at the regional Cummins Diesel dealership. As soon as I got my ticket I was out of there, and started driving in 76. By 78 I bought my first KW - 100 C ( used 76 ) and in 82 bought a new KW -100 V.I.T.. I drove that truck all over North America including The Yukon and North West Territories for 26 years. Gave up being an owner operator in 2006, and started driving company trucks. I’m still at it today, but quite fittingly in my opinion I’m on my last highway trip. As I write this I’m in Edmonton Alberts. I’ll be home in 6 days, ( listen to Dave Dudley’s or better yet Taj Mahals version of Six Days on the Road. ) I’m going to take up a bit of local work to keep my hand in, but at 70 years of age it’s time to pursue other interests like keeping the Mrs happy. One commonality though, whether it’s the 1960’s up on Shap, Beattock, Rogers Pass, or out in the Canadian prairies, winter’s still a bitch. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to share their memories. Ps there is another film that was sponsored by C.A.V. ( fuel systems ) They Drive By Night, about fish lorries driving south from Aberdeen. Cheers !

Double de-clutching when changing down, going uphill - another dying art, along with roping and sheeting.

Well done to the makers of this super documentary. It evokes so many memories of travelling this road, from a child enroute Morecambe from Carlisle for our annual holiday and breaking down at shap . This happened more than once in dads old car, then later hitchhiking to Barrow in Furness to see mates at leat one a month. Recall standing out side the jungle cafe a few times trying to hitch a lift. Who was to know that later I actually had a house just by the greyhound inn when I had an office at the shap quarry formally known as Harrison’s lime. I live on the south coast now but remember the times on this road and in Shap with fondness

A very enjoyable video, full of nostalgia. I miss those simpler times.

AWESOME LOVELY FILM

It makes me sad to see England from the 1960s. Because nowadays it is a cesspit of filth, drugs, guns, knives, gangs and gangstas (YOU ALL KNOW WHAT RACE I MEAN) The old England was decent with decorum and culture.

Well worth watching brilliant video

Thank you for this.

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Great amazing haven’t seen soo many of those behind the rd. really since 1980s. When old Seddon Atkinson trucks were about. And all the old Coma Vans sliding door laundry vans bread vans lol. But the weird porno music track was strange

the first Atkinson was the first long hall lorry I drove from Swansea to London it took nine hours drive at the old A48 there was no seven bridge then and had to go through Chepstow Oxford, and finally into London. I noticed in the movie video that roping and sheeting was immaculate, you don’t see that these days you would take a lot of pride in knowing that your load was secure. The second Atkinson was on display in London motor show. I finally got to drive one two years later and this is in 1960 the old Atkinson. We used to carry a small plank and put it on the engine to the door frame then have a piece of sponge and use it as a bed to have a half an hour break. this was the good old days when you broke down on the side of the road that there would be another truck shortly coming up behind you to see if you were okay, once the seven bridge was built it was the quick on the dead, nobody would stop to help you. thank you for the memories. Ray Jay now living in New Zealand age 84

Just on a side note, I used to work at Seddon Atkinson in the late 80's. A great bunch of blokes in the drawing office.

Just one word excellent Peter Lindop.

Couldn't see a single pothole. How times have changed. 😮

Great to see the Albion lorries again , anyone else notice the Gardner Engines badge on the front ? slow revving manchester engines that would just pull the side of an house straight out , all gone now , I have never seen so much wool in transit , it,s now almost worthless , not worth shearing off , & the money for it certainly won,t pay for it to be shorn off , but then , it was one of THE fibres man needed alongside cotton , & for the shepherds , the wool cheque used to pay the rent on their tenanted farms , so the wool lorry driver was always quietly treated with respect . A snapshot back at a bygone era , I,ve never driven Shap , so it,s now on my bucket list , thanks & best regs .

This reminded me of my dad driving our family on holidays in the 1950's before motorways. Weeks before setting out he'd write to the AA for a journey planner. The AA would post back a detailed turn-by-turn route on stapled sheets. Each sheet consisted of a strip map perhaps between two town centres showing landmarks - pubs, cross roads, AA/RAC phone boxes, etc. - and road numbers. The middle pages were standard copies taken from their files but the first and last pages would be modified to start from your home address and finish at your specific destination. The whole sheaf could be turned over to show the return route printed and drawn on the backs of the sheets.

Thats a British commercial vehicle museum film

I was forced by poverty to own some elderly British lorry’s, but only if fitted with a Cummins, ex fleet day cabs kipping across the seats, mean as cat shit ever last one of them, 😂

Absolutely charming. And I do like to see an Atkinson wagon: a transport of delight.