The Duke of Gloucester opens the first post war Motor Show at Earls Court, with congratulations to the British motor industry on £100 million worth of car exports since the war ended.
Motoring correspondent Alan Hess discusses some of the vehicles that caught his eye, including the Rolls Royce Silver Wraith, the Hillman Minx, the Morris Minor, the Daimler, the Kaiser and the Jaguar. He also looks at some of the latest trends in car design, from a greater use of plastics to in-car luxury items like drinks cabinets.
Clip taken from BBC Television Newsreel, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Monday 1 November, 1948.
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Has all the makings of a great Monty Python sketch!😎💯
BBC means Big Black Car,
It probably needed Jeremy Clarkson.
The prototype for Top Gear
And on that Bombshell, quite literally. I can hear Mr Chumley Warner in this. Great to see this old footage.
It’s like he was afraid to name drop car brands, he wouldn’t make it on Top Gear
The accessories that come with these cars are incredible! A bar in front of the passenger seat? A disabled accessory for the DRIVER?
the inbuilt drinks cabinets in two cars seems out of place now.
So fake
Febulous plestics!
20yrs after this Toyota and Nissan flooded the world with cheaper and more reliable cars
Presenting The HOMER…
Strange no BMW, Audi, VW or any Japanese models…can't think why😉
"ah yes.. excellently equipped".
ahh the BBC – we mustn't have any brand names… so a review of the motorshow without mentioning a single manufacturer or model. quite remarkable.
lmao 4:30
"How do you like it ?"
cuts to next car
When Britain was a manufacturing nation that understood how wealth was created, Germany and Japan never forgot like Britain and powered on into ultra-modern rich societies.
The very model of a modern Morris Minor.
That's actually in colour it's just that everything after the war was varied shade of grey.
Your motoring correspondent following the old BBC line of not calling out commercial companies or brand names – leave the viewer to glimpse labels if they're lucky. 'Impartial' well beyond reasonable.
It's amazing the ease with which the woman can get in and out of the Morris Minor.
Amazing Morris designed a car that even woman can easily get in and out of… lol
british car industry still going strong today 👍😬💀
Was that an English Ford near the beginning? My dad bought me a ten-year-old one of those in '59.
How old fashioned! And what has a bar with whiskey and cristal glasses to do with real motoring? And about the sports car: Don´t drink and drive!
Morris Minor was launched in 1948, amazing small car it was.
They won't mention any of the cars names.
What a jewel of a video,loved old cars ,especially those beautiful English engines , thank you !
How did they manage to be so boring?
Loved that!
Living in our modern world I'sd so boring lol. Lovely video. Thank you.