Under a car with just a jack to hold it up? You'd think that the experts in white coats at Armstrong would know better. Derek Cooper? Derek Macdonald Cooper OBE (25 May 1925 - 19 April 2014)[1] was a British journalist and broadcaster who wrote about food, wine and whisky, and was an overall good egg. He was educated at Raynes Park County Grammar School, Portree High School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English. After World War II service with the Royal Navy he was with Radio Malaya until 1960. After that he wrote for, among others, The Listener, The Observer, Homes & Gardens and Saga Magazine.He was a founder member, first Chairman and first President of the Guild of Food Writers. He was appointed OBE in 1997 and in 1999 he was awarded an Hon. D.Litt. by Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh. He conceived the idea of BBC Radio 4’s weekly culinary programme The Food Programme, which was first broadcast in 1979 and is still aired every Sunday, just before lunch-time. Yum - I'm hungry! Cooper presented PM on Radio 4, and his voice-over work included items on Tomorrow's World and early editions of World in Action. In 2001, the year he retired from The Food Programme, he won a Sony Radio Academy Special Award for "his pioneering work as one of the first journalists to take the subject of food seriously". He was diagnosed as suffering from Parkinson's disease in 1995. His wife of 57 years, Janet, died in 2010. They had two children: a daughter and a son. Derek Cooper died 19 April 2014 (aged 88)
i find these old British motor history films fascinating. Thank you (: Just in case anyone is interested the man hosting this film was veteran broadcaster Derek Cooper. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Cooper_(journalist)
Brilliant video. We don't have these anymore
Under a car with just a jack to hold it up? You'd think that the experts in white coats at Armstrong would know better.
Derek Cooper?
Derek Macdonald Cooper OBE (25 May 1925 - 19 April 2014)[1] was a British journalist and broadcaster who wrote about food, wine and whisky, and was an overall good egg.
He was educated at Raynes Park County Grammar School, Portree High School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read English. After World War II service with the Royal Navy he was with Radio Malaya until 1960. After that he wrote for, among others, The Listener, The Observer, Homes & Gardens and Saga Magazine.He was a founder member, first Chairman and first President of the Guild of Food Writers. He was appointed OBE in 1997 and in 1999 he was awarded an Hon. D.Litt. by Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.
He conceived the idea of BBC Radio 4’s weekly culinary programme The Food Programme, which was first broadcast in 1979 and is still aired every Sunday, just before lunch-time. Yum - I'm hungry!
Cooper presented PM on Radio 4, and his voice-over work included items on Tomorrow's World and early editions of World in Action.
In 2001, the year he retired from The Food Programme, he won a Sony Radio Academy Special Award for "his pioneering work as one of the first journalists to take the subject of food seriously". He was diagnosed as suffering from Parkinson's disease in 1995. His wife of 57 years, Janet, died in 2010. They had two children: a daughter and a son.
Derek Cooper died 19 April 2014 (aged 88)
All my old Armstrong shockers (made between 1959 and 1962) are still in serviceable condition...sturdy products.
There is ''strong'' in Armstrong, that's why
Lotus Cortina. Probably worth a fortune now
@airscrew1 probably worth 40k or more now. Who knew back then?
what a gem.
He didn’t wait for his change.
what a gem
This video was take in the i was bone 58 years ago
i find these old British motor history films fascinating. Thank you (:
Just in case anyone is interested the man hosting this film was veteran broadcaster Derek Cooper.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Cooper_(journalist)