" TRANSPORTATION UNLIMITED " 1949 CHEVROLET TRUCK AND BUS PROMOTIONAL FILM BY JAM HANDY 28102
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Produced by the Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Motors, “Transportation Limited” (1949) is a black-and-white promotional film that centers Chevrolet trucks as the linchpin of America’s robust and expanding industries, or, in other words, “the wheels of American progress.” This film contains excellent footage of Chevrolet trucks from the mid-1930s to 1949, carrying out more than fifty specific tasks. The film opens by celebrating American system of transportation (air, land, and sea) as the best in the world and goes on to illuminate how they are all linked by Chevrolet trucks.
Film opens, quadriptych different modes of transportation i.e. air, train, sea, road (0:06). View of Southern Manhattan along East River (today Battery Park City and Staten Island Ferry terminal) (0:23). Aerial views of changing industrial landscapes, cities, factories, processing plants; Various types of industry in the United States i.e. farming, animal, timber, manufacturing (0:32). Illustrated map of United States highlighting transport systems i.e. waterways, railways, airways, highways (1:05). 1936 M-10005 Union Pacific Streamliner barrels down track (1:19). Tree frames view of steamship on waterway (1:24). Lockheed Constellation in flight (1:28). Importance of commercial trucks in connecting these various systems of transport, montage footage of trucks in different settings driving along commercial, residential roads across country (1:56). 1939 Chevy COE on timber trails, freshly cut down logs loaded onto pick-up, truck slowly makes its way through forest on muddy unpaved roads (2:17). Post-war Chevy Advance Design truck with flat bed hauls wood planks from mill, transport goods to construction sites (3:28). 1939 Chevy ¾ Ton pick-up collects extracted rock from quarries to processing plant to construction sites (3:40). 1942 Chevy Work Truck with concrete mixer attached to flat bed (4:08). 1947 Chevy COE delivers bags of cement mix to building site (4:43). Other trucks transport sand, gravel to help build new roadways/ highways (4:45). Post-war Chevy Advance Design truck pulls into industrial farm, truck loaded with livestock (5:43). Trucks with special refrigerated body packed with meat, sent off to various butchers, markets from large warehouse (6:04). Chevy trucks used on farms during harvest, freshly picked apples from orchard loaded onto flatbed in crates, other trucks for transport of beverages - man unloads Coca-Cola crates (6:21). 1949 Chevy Panel Van delivers groceries to home, other truck with Ira Wilson & Sons Dairy Co logo delivers milk to dairy plants, small Chevy box truck delivers milk to homes (7:04). Golden wheat waves in wind, trucks delivery harvested wheat to store houses across country; Grain converted into products i.e. Valentin Blatz Brewing Company beer (7:38). Trucks gather and transport raw materials: Truck drives slowly away from farm, flatbed piled high with hay (8:38). 1930s Chevy pickup transporting oil; Kool Motor Petroleum Service Inc. (today CITGO) branded truck leaves refinery (9:40). Man shovels coal into 1938 Chevy COE from coal storage silo (10:05). 1948 Chevy Step Van delivers retail goods directly to consumer at home (10:34). 1940s Chevy bus, POV from bus interior as it drives along city streets, highways, bridges (10:58). Rhythm Club Orchestra swing band members load instruments into luggage compartment of Chevy special-bodied private bus (11:27). 1939 Chevy school bus stops for kids on side of quiet road in middle of farmlands, view interior of crowded bus as all kids sit side-by-side (11:38). Use of Chevy trucks in entertainment industry, transport of elephants for Parker & Watts Circus (12:26). 1948 Chevy Panel Truck used to deliver newspapers, flowers, laundry (13:00). 1938 Chevy COE acting as street cleaner on residential street, another with sanitary refuge body picks up trash (13:41). 1939 Chevy Panel Truck ambulance (14:02). Fire blazes out of window, 1940s Chevy fire engines race to scene (14:11). Narrator summarizes film over replay of clips featured throughout film (14:38). Close-up of Chevrolet emblem, final credits, film ends (15:18).
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"Chevrolet trucks play responsible roles of enriching America" Yes, what a refreshing statement. It could be Ford, Dodge, any business. When was the last time you heard anyone extoling the virtues of American productivity? I love these old industrial films!
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Back in a time when life was hard, yet honest and simple. Also back when trucks actually had class and character.
And let’s not forget. This was before negroes
Yeah now they're designed more like luxury cars with all modern technology catering to more towards less physical working crowd who own truck's that are more like cars
And! Some of us are still alive! Absolutely no compassion from genx and beyond 💔 😢 .
Maybe I'm wrong but just seems like a better time back then
Back when Men were Men and Trucks are Trucks....not so much today.
Miss the Old Days.
always loved these old ads, such cool stuff. But something I've noticed is how much they talk about America. There was so much national pride back then. It's a shame its not around so much anymore.
moral code is broken
@Randy Wiesendanger I have friends that are teachers and they have problems writing letters and spelling correctly!!! One asked me what a shooner was? I looked and saw the word schooner!! I asked him if he had any maritime experience and ridiculed him for having the audacity to TEACH!!! He makes almost six figures for 9.5 months work and collects unemployment in the summer as his union instructs him to do. That way we get the Dutch door treatment.
@Randy Wiesendanger C's and D's still get degrees!! But you're correct, even though it's so untrue. If only wages were merit and knowledge based.
100% CORRECT--always positive and proud of being an AMERICAN and how hard we are working FOR the Country, now all some do is make people feel guilty, complain, etcccc. those POS couldn't even do a days work like these people did
@John Texas Right on!
my dad was a chevy man and me too. i still have one today, 2015 silverado WT.
It was the beginning of the greatest time in America the 1950s .
Awsome ads they make me homesick for the good old days
I feel, by way of the musical selections, like Chevrolet single-handedly ended poverty, hunger, and brought all of America into the modern world.
Thank you for your video, sure is great to see all the trucks that made America great ! 👍
The truck styling looks more modern than todays vehicles.
Woody Hayes, when was the last time you had your eyesight tested? If you had said the styling was more aesthetically appealing or easier on the eye then fair enough, but how do you define modern, modern surly means newer or more recent, so those designs from the 40s 50s 60s etc were modern, now they are classic or sleek or just old fashioned depending on your point of view.
@@allandavis8201 - Modern compared to a PT Cruiser LOL
I love to these old films. Wish I could go back to those days!
What a GREAT COUNTRY THEN AND ALL THE DIFFERENT BRANDS OF VEHICLES AMERICA CREATED
Loved the ol Chevys & GMCs. My dad bought several of them after WW2 for his transfer business. They sure had some style! Porter’s Transfer & Storage of Huntington, WV was his business. I was hoping to see one of his trucks featured when I saw the moving company tractor trailer. It was hopeful.
Love those COE Chevrolet trucks .
More Jam Handy, Wilding & other Detroit made film!! Fun fact, during WWII Detroit produced more feet of film than Hollywood.
Back when people put in a hard days work for a paycheck. Which wasn't a hell of a lot of money back then. My grandfather told me about working for a dollar a day as a farmhand, before he started working in the coalmine in 1940. When he started in the mines, they handloaded coal with a shovel. They were paid by the ton, the more tonage you loaded the more money you made.
@Allen Tokyo it makes perfect sense, the technology of today makes it easier to preform the work being done, generations ago they DIDNOT have the technology which made the work tougher too do for alot less money, if it doesn't make sense to you , you must have never put in a hard day's work and you must not be very bright.
Work progress study build old world.
I love Chevrolet.
LOVE THIS. Are Baker Delivered Bread to us every week in a 1941 Chevy Panel and Later a 195o Chevy Panel Truck!
It's no accident that self reliance equates to a great nation. When will the politicians wake up!!
First "big truck" I ever drove as a kid was a 49 chevy 2 ton.
Keith Bolles now did that truck you drove had under the hood the 292 140 horsepower inline 6?
interesting. this was filmed in the year I was born. All my relatives worked at GM at this time.
my Dad had a 1947 gmc that he hauled gravel and pulpwood with and in 1952 pulled the cab and put a bus body on it,ran for years after and this was in Canada.
I drive a concrete truck so to see the old mixers is pretty cool
You know those trucks had the mighty 292 cubic inch inline 6 virtually indestructible virtually easy to maintain not like today's trucks of that size.
now I wanna go buy a Chevrolet truck !!
I owne sev chevy trucks
I'm an old man and a Patriot. It's 2018 and this video made me chub a little.
Good content👍 ! Thanks for sharing!
You have a great channel
First minute of film .... America was great ! can we say that today ?
4:54.....that is awesome!!!!!
So I go from spintires mudrunner to old truck commercials
Interesting that most of the trucks shown in this film were older models.
The film was made in 1949.
Just like nowadays. Not all businesses have brand new trucks.
@@glennso47 The OP is referring to the fact that a LOT of the trucks shown are older than 1949. (Some shown are 1941-46 AK series, Some even older than 1940.) 1949 Chevy/GMC trucks would have been "Advance Design"/"New Design" bodies that were made from 1947-1955. (Those are also of course, are seen in the film.)
As a company film, You would think that they would only show the LATEST models, But I can understand actually showing off older models when promoting trucks. Unlike with cars, Trucks are less about style and more about toughness and durability. Showing older Chevy trucks still hard at work will give the impression that the Chevy truck buyer is getting a durable truck.
@@billsteinly8105 It was also good sales "psychology" for GM to show the older models at work. It give an impression of durability. Unlike today, trucks weren't "fashion statements", but tools. A truck buyer in 1949 wanted assurance that he was getting a long lasting truck.
I'd like to get my hands on one of those 39 Chevrolet trucks with the milk delivery body on it.
@ 8:30, we seem to see the Los Angeles Food Market.
Almost unchanged in 2018 !!!
You know I think I get the idea that Chevrolet Trucks are kinda important...
What I think is funny is the elephant going by in the semi trailer with his head sticking out of the top of the trailer
Was that Mitt Romney's ancestors driving by or OBAMAS family dinner on its way to the market!?!?
He's just happy to go for a ride! Woo hoo!😁
im surprised the announcer didnt say: "chevrolet trucks, more dependable than your loyal dog"
What power was already there in the trucks then.
Many may smile at the fact that they were small,
but this was many years ago and yet they worked hard.
Cool!
This the ultimate “Chevrolet” drinking challenge
Interesting how narrow the wheel track is on those old commercial vehicles.
If you look at the bus at 11:15, it's as if the chassis is the even narrower than a car of that time.
Aside from terrible stability, it means there is a huge amount of wasted space inside for the wheel wells.
4 years after winning a war fought on two fronts America's post war economy is booming and would continue for the next 20+ years. And cars, trucks, planes snd trains and household appliances were what the American public and the world was buying as the middle class grew and prospered and Europe was rebuilding it's devastated cities.
Gostei muito deste video que poderia mostrarem um assim tambem de caminhoes brasileiros ok!
Amazing how few actual late 40s trucks were in the film.
That's no accident! Back when trucks were not "fashion statements" it was a good idea to show older ones still at work to let a potential buyer know he is getting a long lasting truck.
@@jamesslick4790 Never thought of it that way but I'd say that's spot on.
new drinking game, every time the announcer says "chevrolet trucks" take a shot, you'll be dead at the end of the video lol
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ohhh yesshh! eye'm not as think as you drunk eye am....
I counted it up....the narrator says “Chevrolet” once, “trucks” 7 times, and “Chevrolet trucks” a whopping 53 times!
Or "countless".
All my vehicles I ever own were GM built.
Did he just said "FORD" once in the video ?
Nah ! " C H E V R O L E T !!! " 256 times...
When you have enough money to purchase something you can _____ it .. :p
Well , it IS a Chevrolet promotional film .
Show de imagens
... this is what made America great... not just selling automobiles but selling everything from chewing gum to airliners in such a highly skilled and professional manner. MAGA
Did they put the airliners together with chewing gum? I hope not!
wow wow
It makes me sad😪 that our USA has so many goods & services made in Japan & other foreign countries..😢 ( Baby Boomer Born in 1959 )
I don’t know if anyone delivers milk door to door anymore.
i have a few cows who do. from one barn door to another if that counts
Out here in southern Cook County in Chicago we have a dairy company called Oberweis and they still deliver milk to our houses in 2020
Used to be normal , but rapidly lost marketshare in mid '60s .
But think for a second what was happening then .
The whole concept behind milk delivery was people getting primary grocery shopping every week or two , and then could get fresh milk everyday without a trip to the supermarket .
Because once upon a time , it was typical for a family to own ONE car . The cliche ( with lots of then reality behind it ) was Dad driving to work , while Mom stayed home . In those parameters , getting delivery of milk was a significant convience .
But , by the mid '60s , it became more common for families to have TWO cars . Again following Cliche , but let Mom go shopping when needed , or haul kids , or work a part time gig , without having to coordinate the single car .
And 21st Century PC people don't attack me , I'm just giving accurate historical account of what used to be .
@@jamesforman6587 My brother delivered milk for Grimm's Dairy in Mount Carroll, IL until about the 1980s when Grimm's went out of business. When they went out of business, he bought the truck he drove and restored it and puts it in parades. It's a little Divco step van.
I can still remember the milkman. It must have been in the mid 70th when the service stopped.
And before that during and after World War II Chevrolet trucks worst serving the soldiers of World War II with Dependable transportation and especially the one famous operation in Europe called Operation Red Ball Express where those trucks kept on rolling 24/7 to help rebuild Europe.
Even Hitler loved GM (Opel) trucks
@Randy Wiesendanger Ford was also Stalin's pal with Ford trucks license built in the old USSR.
@Randy Wiesendanger German companies built Germany's military vehicles. The German division of GM (Opel) turned out large numbers of transport trucks and to a lesser extent Ford. The majority of transport trucks used by German forces in WW2, however, were from native German companies. Henry Ford was certainly a Nazi sympathizer, a racist, and an antis-semite, but he still openly admired Stalin and sold the Soviets the rights and tooling to turn out millions of GAZ-A (Model A Ford) cars and GAZ-AA (Model AA Ford) trucks.
I can see, DOT and OSHA going nuts if we still did things like that today ...some of those acts could be considered dangerous
Yes but this was post ww2 when American patriotism reigned supreme over all other nations and we felt invincible after winning the way and liberating the world. It became a story of American might and superiority more than the trucks themselves and what they offered. Pre OSHA and DOT too
Pre OHSA . Their was a DOT , but they didn't micromanage at this level .
This was before “safety culture”…this was when you could by m-80s and blockbusters at the corner store…this was when stupid people died or got hurt and the smart prevailed…this was before the nanny state hand holding culture was prevalent.
When he said Chevrolet , I spit out my beer laughing !!
Chevrolet trucks were not the same junk they are nowadays.
All of the old trucks were good if you maintained them properly.
I had several different yr Chevy trucks always had good luck with them one of them had over 370k on it and still ran good I will always get Chevy still have my 51 3600 and my 2015 2500 hd.
What Happens to those Glory days?
They never existed.
Glorious revolutionary God mocking humanist liberalism.
Liberals took over.
When the United States actually had a manufacturing base.
Dad had a 1,1/2 ton 1941 looks like truk@ 4:08
What else can Chevrolet trucks do?
Chevrolet trucks can be jacked up and driven
to get groceries
Now a days they can spend lots of time in the repair shop or junk yard,
1 out of 3 trucks are Chevrolet Trucks.... Hmmm so is 1 out of 3 a Dodge Truck and a Ford Truck?.. Just wonderin...
Code3Forever 1 out of 3 GMC. 1out of 3 Toyota
In the world of advertising numbers, Chevy might have been the only whole number...
What if ALMOST 2 in 3 were Ford? ALMOST 1 in 3 were Dodge?
Set Theory in action.
Because there was many other truck manufacturers other than GM Ford or Dodge back then.
Ford has historically out produced Chevrolet in the truck market so its safe to say that something more than 1 in 3 trucks on the road in 1949 were Ford.
Because back then , there were dozens of mfg of large and medium duty trucks . By the '70s and '80s , most of the brand names were either bought out , or went defunct .
In recent decades , the F-150 is typically the largest selling single model of motor vehicle . Ford and Chevy have historically gone neck & neck for total Light Truck production . In this era from the film Chevy was selling well in Light Trucks , and had a greater share of Medium Trucks .
This is similar to old World War Two propaganda films in style.
Farm implement manufacturers had films similar to these. I recall that my dad worked for a Chevy dealer that also sold Allis Chalmers farm implements and they would show these films when Chevy would have their new model roll outs in the autumn. The dealer would show both the films for Chevy cars and trucks and the films for Allis Chalmers implements.
Hm... At 2:00, the narrator said that "one out of every three is a Chevrolet". You had the major three Chevrolet, Dodge and Ford, then a number (unknown?) of specialized truck manufacturers like American, Mack, etc... oh and I forgot International. Not counting the specialized truck manufacturers, that leaves four, maybe five remaining.
I'd say "one out of three" isn't all that impressive. ;-D
He forgot about Studebaker trucks which were popular back then.
The rookies loved Studebaker trucks they got from us in lend lease
And so GM crushed the trolly car system.
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Tempe Arizona
is n process now of installing a double track trolley system, from downtown, to around the west & south side of the University, & then to the east, to connect with the light rail 🚈 system... vehicle traffic has & will be much more congested because of this
And guess who Chevrolet has to thank for production lines that allow them to mass produce? Henry Ford.
Both Chevrolet & Dodge came out with P/U trucks 3 years before ford & just because you can make them faster does not mean they are better.
Henry Ford was a sociopathic racist.
Well, everything goes well untill Ford F-Series was born
Oh , F- Series Ford Trucks were around . But this is a CHEVROLET advertising film . You wouldn't expect Ford to give shout out to Chevy trucks in their Advertising films would you ?
And then Ford F-150 has been the most popular vehicle since then.
When unions where needed & did not ruin everything & there was very little Government regulation on how to run your company & build things. NOW LOOK AT US.
Ignorant of the facts.
I was born 1949.
What company was this promotional film made for? My son says Chevrolet, but I say Ford, I haven’t heard Chevrolet mentioned once, maybe it’s my hearing, eyesight, or both. Please tell me it’s Ford, otherwise if it’s Chevrolet then I have to but him a pint 🍺 when the pubs re-open. 😄👍🇬🇧🏴
Perhaps you're sarcastically joshing us ? Every other sentence includes " Chevrolet Trucks " . Yes , this is a Chevrolet advertising film .
Lots of Chevy heavy and medium duty trucks are rebadged Isuzu’s
GM hasn’t made a true heavy duty truck since the 80s. It your absolutely correct. I think the top kick were actually GM but I saw one as an actual Isuzu once and only once.
I had a 08 Chevy cab over with the V8 diesel and 1 thing that was Chevrolet was the bow tie on the front of it Completely Isuzu well the transmission was a Allison id say that was the other American part of it . Don't know if that was even US made ??
Jhon Siders I don’t think the cab overs ever had a v8 diesel but the gas was though. But I think the majority of the parts might be made in Japan and shipped over. If you get it gas it’s a GM 6.0 and I think that’s the only other American part in them.
It was the same V8 diesel built by Isuzu that they call the duramax in the GM pick ups was underpowered for that application had a 4.56 axel gear to make up for that top speed on flat ground was 73 MPH on the governor ran it from Louisville KY to Columbus OH often to pick up steel at the shop up there before they went under this was during the Bush crash as I call the recession back then .
Jhon Siders what model did you drive because I never heard of them using the V8 duramax in the cab overs! But since you drove one how did you like it? My dad is in construction and Im trying to get him to look at the new cabovers but the thought of moving 26’k lbs with a four cylinder engine sounds awful along with parts.
I love Chevrolet they are good truck don't ask me why I'm driving BMW I think they still need to build a big semi I used to drive over the row I'm laughing at this I wonder if they had commercial diver license back then I need to quit laughing about that long live Chevrolet goodbye
The Commercial Drivers License ( CDL ) as we know it today came about in the late '80s . Prior to that , each state had their own system .
Some had the classifications broken down similar to current .
Some had 2 classes , regular , and " Chauffeur's" which actually meant trucks in toto .
And at least one jurisdiction still had only one Drivers License for everything from a Ford Pinto to 18 wheeler .
The CDL scheme ( aka Communist Drivers License as old school truckers called it at the time) was 90% overkill . The legitimate concerns could have been addressed with much less federal overreaching .
Require that to be valid for interstate commerce over a certain weight , licenses had to have specific weight catagories , and over a certain weight , a driver could have only one License .
Thanks World War II for making us so rich.
Lucheti Castle, that is a very ignorant comment. The U.S. was rich long before WW2 and it was our economic might that made the outcome of the war inevitable. The U.S. cranked out planes, ships, and tanks, at an incredible rate. Our ability to streamline the manufacturing process from raw material to finished implement of war had never before been seen.
We would have recovered from the Depression long before the war if glorious revolutionary socialist programs had not hampered the recovery.
@@baronvonnembles Thanks for the Marschall Plan.
@@baronvonnembles Thaks for the Atlantic Ocean and the British Empire who protected us,you doubt learn the true history boy.
as a road driver, in the 80s never liked gm rigs, gm tractors felt like an overblown impala. much preferred ford louisville in this price range.
Back then they were trucks now Chevy trucks are total garage
Don't you mean "garbage?"
All of today's truck's are overpriced garbage period none will be around 20yrs from now they will be piles of rust with out dated technology. At least you can still see 70 plus year old truck's still around
Chevrolet out sold ford in the advanced truck yrs ford didn't out sell Chevrolet until later yrs
The body styles had a special ugly look back then.
Before America was owned and controlled by Big Corporations.
What we "won" in WWII was not so great as they told us it would be. :(
Without a doubt one of the worst car/truck manufacturers. This was proven back in the 70's and still is a fact today. Take that for a fact.
Based on what consumers report, most people that buy a vehicle today do not no how to maintain there own vehicle ,the worst car made by Chevrolet was the Vega & nothing else & that is a fact & everything else that You base on fact is totally not factual.
I used to pull out stuck fords all the time with my chevy . But today all cars and trucks are over priced and poor quality
Any Chevy truck past 1946 is trash
America The Beautiful back then! Not so much anymore. Now it's America The Pitiful.😢 At least Chevrolet Trucks are still built here.😊