1960s UK Traffic, Motorway Driving, HD from 35mm

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1950s, 1960s UK countryside, traffic jam, busy road, cars including reliant robin, three-wheeled car, mobile home, caravan. Pan with cars, Guinness billboard in background. HA road.

[Iceni]

Austin Cambridge, Ford Anglia, Morris Minor -- remember riding in them all as a kid with my old Pa and Ma back in the 70s...a lost world...

[Julian-]

Hats Off, what a great video of those 60’s Cars in the UK. I had just learned to drive my Dad’s Vauxhall, I was 10. This is the absolute best parade.
Cheers from San Diego

[TheHorsebox]

Love the way kids are strewn haphazardly around the car interiors, like scatter cushions.

[bluebe]

This is the reason why I want to go back to the 1960s

[Senna-xigr]

This is great to see, drivers with manners & lane discipline. Well done.

[chuckylugs]

Precarious stretch of road at 1:21, was dreading a collision at 1:31, 1:32 !! Surprisingly busy, but the world back then was definitely a better place.

[andynixon]

I see they had a centre lane for cars wanting to over take - but it was for cars coming in both directions . Shit, that's a bad idea .

[LITOM]

Excellent a vintage car parade how lucky we are :)

[michaeltb]

Driving standards seen on this video are terrible, especially on the 3 lane road where cars seemed to be wandering all over the road. At one point 2 cars were heading for each other, but the film cut before you could see what happened. I wouldn't want to go back to those conditions.

[Oldladysgin]

The Hillman Imp with optional air condtioning.

[oddities-whatnot]

Kids in the back, no seat belts. Astonishing it was ever allowed, and nobody thought of the dangers in the event of an accident.

[ABCDEF-yfyu]

Most cars are in dull colours, the exception being a red Mini and Hillman Imp passing at 0:21. Brighter colours were available by the 1970s. There is a North Western Dennis Loline bus, RDB891 that may give a clue to where the 1960s traffic was filmed, could be anywhere from Nottingham to Manchester, or possibly operating on the Blackpool route.

[TheResi]

A big reminder of how small cars used to be, even family ones. I was also amused how 4 grown adult could fit in a tiny Morris Minor at 0:35, the car probably more than doubled its weight with passengers alone.

[sethdotson]

My favorite thing is how utterly different the cars here look from American cars during the same era. Nowadays, cars from one part of the world look about the same as those from the next.

[simonramsay]

The 3 lane road at about 1.35 mins looks quite dangerous as cars obviously overtook from either direction. I read somewhere that they used to be known as "3 lane killer roads"!

[corz]

Man that's a quality picture for 60s unbelievable

[jimbrown]

I can remember my uncle having inertia reel seat belts installed in his morris 1100 at the must have been around 1964/65 they were available.

[RobRich]

0.37 looks a strange bunch in that car.

[juan-]

0:01 that is that red car with 3 wheels

[speakfreeley]

c1964. Spotted a couple of VW Beetles, the most common foreign car in the UK back then, as well as a VW Type-3 estate near the end, but also at 0:29 a UK market Fiat 1100, with front "suicide-doors".