The Motor Show: Cars for Women (1967) | British Pathé
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- At the motor show in Earls Court, London in 1967, their main focus seems to have been attracting women drivers. In this remarkable archive footage, all sorts of classic cars are on display from the Triumph TR5 to a convertible Rolls-Royce.
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No title. The motor show at Earl's Court, London. Colour item.
L/S car exhibition. M/S woman at wheel of Sunbeam Rapier revolving on stand. L/S ditto. L/S Hillman Stiletto with two girls inside. C/U steering wheel and dashboard. C/U girls. C/U AC Fastback. C/U car's interior with girl at wheel. C/U as door opens to show red light. M/S girl at steering wheel. M/S Japanese salesman showing woman engine of the Honda Mini. He shuts bonnet and walks around the car. L/S new Vauxhall Victor on Revolving Stand. C/U grill and headlights of the Victor. M/S girl at steering wheel of Victor. L/S salesman showing couple the MGC. C/U MGC engine. M/S woman looking at engine. M/S new Triumph. C/U bonnet opening to show engine and injectors.
Various shots 1968 Rolls Royce convertible. Various shots glamorous girl in the Lamborghini Marzal. Various shots car named "Piranha", with car designer Signor Bertone at the wheel. Various shots middle aged couple getting into Ford Electric Comuta Car, the woman sits at wheel and tries out the pedals. C/U Rolls Royce. C/U Rover. M/S Plymouth Barracuda. M/S Mini Austin. M/S Porsche. M/S Morris. Various shots Volkswagen. Various shots Triumph TR5. Various shots Lotus Elan. Various shots Citroen DS19 Pallas with moving headlights. M/S Riley revolving in frame. M/S woman gets into driving seat of new Cortina. M/S salesman shuts door and adjusts read view mirror on door. C/U interior as man leans back in passenger seat.
Amendment January 2012: A visitor to the site has written in with some additional information about this clip, referring the text in the description above - In paragraph 1; the car credited as a "Hillman Stiletto" (as per the commentary) is actually a Sunbeam Stiletto. Car credited as an "AC Fastback" is an AC 428 Fastback. Car credited as a "Honda Mini" is a Honda N600. The Triumph is a Triumph TR5.
Paragraph 2; the car credited as a Rolls Royce Convertible is a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow Convertible. "Signor Bertone's" full name is Nuccio Bertone. The next Rolls Royce is another Silver Shadow. The Rover is a Rover P5. The car credited as an "Austin Mini" is actually an Austin 3-litre, with its original rectangular headlight configuration. The Porsche is a Porsche 911. The Morris is a Morris 1100. The Volkswagen is a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.
The revolving Riley is a Riley Elf. Finally, the Cortina is a Ford Cortina Super.
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I went on the train from Winchester to this show, aged 11. Sat in lots of cars (queued for the Morgan). Came back tired out with bags of brochures, no fear or bother on my own, on the Tube for the first time. What a day, what an era! Clean streets, kind people. Glad I knew a nicer world.
! А теперь твою страну медленно уничтожают вами же выбранные власти + куча прибывающих к вам жителей южных стран , которым ваши власти платят ещё и щедрое пособие , но и этого им мало , хотят ещё и ядерного армагедона с Россией ?! 😁👎
Nice words John and so very true
golden age of cars, brilliant
........and women.
.....and advertising
Then they put the Ford Comuta in there.....
The Bertone Pirana at 2:05 is a special car. It's only a one off and it was displayed only twice in public - once was in France in the 60s and the second time - right in this video at the Earls Court motor show. Now it's owned by Jay Leno. Search in RUclips. He actually told the whole story of that thing. This design later inspired Lamborghini Espada.
Sean Connery should have driven it in a 007 movie.
“ Put your foot down on this and he’ll be sober in a flash”
Happy so positive 🎶music. Great video. Thank you.
"Very cheap , very Japanese" .Oh, the confidence of the narrator. 30 years later and the rest is history. Ah,so!
How bloody Rude of the narrator
It was this condescending nonsense that led to the underestimation of the Japanese ingenuity. The same happend at Singapore 25 years earlier.
Splendid...thanks for showing 👍
The fixed-head coupe based on the Imp was called the Sunbeam Stiletto, not a Hillman. The Hillman name went to what parent company Rootes Group called the "Californian", which was a coupe version of the mid 1950s Minx saloon. Loved those vacuumed clean girls all the same.
+ROBERT CHARLES HAYNES Sorry mate!....you're not right there!......I had a 1968 Hillman Imp Californian as my first car!....same bodyshell as stiletto but more basic fittings...
"What's more, there's only 2 pedals, Stop and Go. Couldn't be easier for the wife!"
1967, but even so...
Jon Seymour very unfair comment and so disrespectful to many women drivers. I’ve been teaching safe driving for thirty five years and in all that time have found the women to be the safest due to their common sense and consideration for other road users. I think men are deluded when they claim to be superior and the insurance statistics are testament to this.
@@ptyb6195 yeah but for bossing the fast lane you need a bloke to do it properly.
@Jon Seymour your fragile masculinity is showing luvvie.
@Jon Seymour You ok hun?
I will say, women have a knack for tailgating.
These videos are priceless❤️❤️
I swear the man at the end, reclining in the Cortina was a pal of my father's in the 80's; Ron Hoxby - who worked in the Fleet Street newspapers. Great guy.
The Ford Cortina. Looks flawless!!!
Great stuff!!
"he'll drink, you'll drive, that's the way"!!!
When cars were actually nice to look at.
Nothing more than bloated lumps of metal today.
Largely driven by increased safety standards required as cars are now being driven faster and accelerates harder. And yes, Humans are also getting fatter.
What I understood from this video : you need a wife to be able to drink more
All those British Marques consigned to history. Such a shame.
Well, the other brands proved to be better :D
Yes, a real shame. Cars all had their own particular style too.
@@beaufighter245 British cars, in general, never had any style. There have been a few exceptions like the Mini (and that also was penned by a Greek) which looked cute but even that under the hood fell short. Mini body panels were not properly designed. Electrics were bad, switches, fuses not innovative. Positive earth when everybody else opted for negative earth. Generators rather then the efficient alternators. There was no proper standardization, just look at the imperial threads vs metric. Call a spade a spade!
@@beaufighter245 .......and don't forget carbs,carbs,carbs. When everyone else was going i,i,i. I had a 1979 Merc, with the Bosch K'Jetronic. So efficient and economical. Jaguar on the other hand had a V12 engine topped by a hat of carburettors. You know people vote with their feet.
funny, i saw VW and Porsche... and both are doing well...
Nice to see British cars without any rust! Great presentation. I really miss those 'simpler' days.
But I doubt Mrs patronized lady wife does.
Look how exciting all these cars are and all this advertising and all these days out. Now you just watch some soulless car silently drive past in slow motion with no fanfare only to get one and realise it makes a constant high pitch ring, can barely go anywhere and catches fire from time to time.
It ay have been 54 years ago but there were some really nice motors there.
1:30 the Rolls Royce had everything, including a WHOPPING price tag of ten thousand five hundred pounds!!!
You could buy a nice house in London for that back then.My sister worked in a bank for 400 quid a year,so it would have taken her 25 years to save up if she didn't spend on anything else! Now her salary would be 20,000 a year for the same job, but I doubt the Rolls would cost 500 grand!
@@bluegtturbo Wow! 400 pounds!
£185,000 in today's money!
@@44ro.n Aye
@@44ro.n My Prius cost only 5.000€😂😂😂
They were truly optimistic times.
Very few women could drive in those days. They were happy to be driven around by their husbands, including my mother.
Your mother was a husband?
My mother was a better driver than my father, especially on long trips. She and a couple of girl friends drove a Ford Anglia rental car all over Europe for two months in the mid 1950s.
@@RonJohn63 his mother was *his* husband.
My Mum learnt to drive before my Dad. They had a lodger who drove and he taught her in return for her doing his washing. When my Dad passed they had to change from Mum's Mini because he was too tall to drive it comfortably.
My Nan was a better driver than my Grandad ( she learned to drive in the 1940’s ) In later years he would come back with an extra dent in the car. My Nan never had an accident. I say the same with my parents that my Mum is a better and more patient driver than my Dad.
I like how it cuts from a city or something on fire to a car show. Peak of ads.
pause it at 4:01. I know whats going on there on the way back from the pub :)
It's not a lump in his throat
How is this 1967? This is incredible quality.
Shot on film, and a modern transfer.
Film is can be very high quality, especially compared to early digital
They made it on bioscope media.😂
Probably recorded on 35mm film which is cinema quality
couple of nice models there
the cars are OK too 👌
2:26 An electric car. I wonder what it's specs are?
Well it's small and light so it's better than most modern EV's, it's a town commuter so it doesn't have a lot of range. It likely uses lead acid batteries so the fire risk is significantly reduced and it also has no infotainment, autonomous or monitoring features so it really is a simple little car to drive. Fortunately for the EV manufactures of today, they don't have to stand on an open market like the Ford comuta. Today they just have to tick the watermelon green agenda and they'll get subsidised, often against the will of, by tax payers.
Zero to sixty in 42 business days
I wonder if its got a ludicrous mode
@@tinypizza4278 ludicrously slow
luar biasa sekali
Why is there a picture of what looks like a flaming war zone for the first few frames of the video?
probably from the previous tv segment this was recorded from
Smedley Butler I think this is from a newsreel
The editor didn't cut it precisely from the full newsreel.
Fast forward to a world of unlimited gasoline consumption.
It was a glimpse into a different universe :)
That first girl is stunning. Lovely...
you get one you get the other
shots from this documentary used for Depeche Mode's movie clip Master & Servant
Classic
That Mazal is just gorgeous!!!
Mineral blue mgc awesum
My mother was born in 1923 and she didn´t have a drivers license in 1967. But of course, there were no pubs in Sweden.....
Ah yes, an AC Frua 428 and Honda N360. 7000cc or 350cc, direct competitors for the 'women's market for vehicle sales' in the 60s.
Honda N360 🇯🇵🇬🇧
While in the USA:
Toyopet
Datsun
Subaru Sambar/360
Dodge Colt (rebadged Mitsubishi in early 70s)
"Ferrying the old man home from the local.....". Is that the only thing that a woman can do behind the wheel!?
yes
Back in the 60s they was very sexist back then
it was different times
That Rapier was slick!
2:43 Couldn't be easier for the wife :-)
Groovy !! 🍺 😎 👍
2:56 - Austin 3 litre!
I was searching for the Austin 3 litre. Didn't see much of it in this film clip. Just a glimpse at about 2.57. Beautiful cars. I had three of them.
Beat me to it! A quick glimpse of a beautifully styled car. I noticed this had the single headlight fitted where I remember them having twin headlights. I still, on occasion, see a blue 3 litre in excellent condition being driven. Not many survive I guess.
@@beaufighter245 they were gorgeous cars!
I haven't seen one for years. I wish I had kept at least one of mine. I only have the workshop manual and handbook to remember them by, lol. xx
@@rileybenstead3574 wouldn't it be nice to have a barn full of all those cars! (I currently own a 1975 TR 7)
My beautiful 1999 Lexus LS400 has a FANTASTICALLY well-lit make up Vanity Mirror, and with my not smoking, the ashtray is the PERFECT place for me to keep my Lipstick.
Dear oh lord, you'd think this was a spoof. The "Japanese Honda salesman" is perhaps the most cringe of all
2:44oh dear 😅😅😅😅
SJWs would have a field day with this lol.
Great quality video.
He'll Drink, She'll drive.... It is the way :)
Get married lads; instant designated driver!
Damn alcoholism seemed pretty rampant
What a years for the car.......then they put the Ford Comuta in there......
If only someone had combined the Piranha with the Marzal...😉
Optimism in way of top speed the Mazel would do 140mph not 210
Lambo Espada 😃
…and fitted it with a flux capacitor…⚡️
2:55 to 3:25 classico
SUNBEAM Stilletto
Misogyny wasn't strange at that time! 2:43 - there are only two pedals...!!! Nice.
How those woman can hold a steering wheel whilst being pretty at the same time is beyond me...
"Cars for women"! That's a phrase to get today's women frothing at the mouth.
Couldn't be easier for the wife! 👍🏻
*bad idea*
Go or Stop - couldn't be easier for the wife.
A whopping price tag of £10,500 for the Rolls Royce lol😂
AC 428 is a lady's car ?.......Well, didn't know that !
Women, Know Your Limits ..
Ah, those halcyon days 😂
Hot babes in the little sporty cars, and a crowd of old duffers in Rolls...yep, that's what I'd expect.
Harbour Dog, those Hot Babes are in their 80s now.
0:42 😂 very cheap very japanese 🤣🤣🤣🤣
$10k for a Rolls Royce, at that price give 2 please and the honda mini, very Japanease very cheap would go to become one of the most successful cars in history.
Also this video promotes a lot of husband drinking 🍸😃
TR5... WOOF!
How'd that 68 Plymouth get in there?
Right hand drive Barracuda sighted!
It's a Motor Show, that's how.
Proppa crumpet! No caterpillar 🐛 eyelashes or Pringle lips
1:35 The Rolls Royce is still a 'man's' car then!🤣🤣🤣
Back then the cars and women were both good looking. Where did it all go wrong?
Ford had an electric car concept in 1967! How did Tesla take over the world then?
Didn’t work for Ford I guess 😁
Ford never shot one into space.
The new honda mini, very cheap very japanese
Thank goodness, a car for women with only stop and go pedals! We wouldn't want to overload our brains with pedals and gears- Ouch!
They’ve allowed women to have the same rights as men, when will children have the same rights? I know that adults seem to be more mature but children and teens are looked down upon.
honda mini, ford E, there's nothing new, this is the year styling took leave of its self IMO, and the jetsons on TV are to blame.
0:44 ''Very Japanese'', ... well, because we are Japanese of course.
At that point in time the Brits had no clue that their British car industry would soon be overtaken.
and after that, a Opel Ascona A... very British...lol
@@jfv65 why would they, they won the war...lol
Patronising. British journalists typically called the small Honda a copy of the Mini. They had no idea how technically superior Japanese cars were. Streets ahead on quality and reliability too. Japanese manufacturers were about to exterminate the British motorcycle industry and then take on the car makers.
@@faithlesshound5621 I agree it's patronising, but Japanese cars weren't much competition quite yet at that stage. Getting there though. Remember that the first Japanese car sold in the UK was only in 1964 (and it wasn't a particularly great one). Datsun weren't here until 1968. There weren't exactly many Japanese cars to chose from here for most of the 60s. As cool as the Honda S600 is, and as much as I want one, it still wouldn't have appeared like much of an industry at the time from Britain's perspective. There wasn't much on the high end yet. It's not like you could go out and buy a Toyota Century.
It didn't help that Japan in the early to mid 60s also had a reputation a bit like China does today. A lot of the industry was seen to be copying. The N600 would have certainly seemed like a copy of the Mini, even if it wasn't. It was just another small car intended to fit within Kei class restrictions. But who in Britain knew about Kei back then?
It wasn't until the 70s that attitudes began to change and eventually flipped on its head.
Women, know your limits!
The narrator's sexism is just something to behold. Every word out of his mouth is misogynistic.
What's more there's only two pedals go and stop, couldn't be easier for the wife🙊
“Cars for women” 1967 and they still can’t drive 😂
Did women even drive cars back then?
Duh! Sexism in those years... Wait, sexual discrimination is still a thing...
Same condescending sexist voice over as today.... Makes you proud to be a bloke. 🤪
It's disgusting how casually the commentator treats over drinking and the need for a sober driver who happens to be a woman
Cringe. M.
.......very Japanese and very cheap. Just add: very good too.
The 1967 models weren't.
Very cheap very Japanese…….very Rude😮
I hear Ford is bringing a Hatchback out complete with a Man Driver to do the parking.
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