Over one million cars a week in 1962!

[Giantvanman]

Love these old clips.

[YOUTUBE]d_Yjyy_Rp2A[/YOUTUBE]

 

[def90cars]

As a production engineer from the last twenty year, its interesting, but massively inefficient.

 

[Tim203]

As a production engineer from the last twenty year, its interesting, but massively inefficient.

I know where your coming from but it paid people's wages which is the most important thing!

 

[Tim203]

Love these old clips. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Yjyy_Rp2A">YouTube Link</a>

Do you reckon there was a strain of Pathe humans that were bred to speak like that!

 

[markjay]

As a production engineer from the last twenty year, its interesting, but massively inefficient.

It's the benefit of hindsight... many things that are patently obvious to us now, were completely and utterly unknown or misunderstood in the past.

(Like low profile tyres on sports cars... who would have thought?)

 

[Deleted96908]

Love these old clips.

Very cool thanks - I'm sure @IOWEddie would be interested in this too.

Do you reckon there was a strain of Pathe humans that were bred to speak like that!

I was working on a BBC iPlayer related project last year and came across this as part of my research.

Survey of English Dialects, 1950-61


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