Commercials then: notice how toughly built our car is, how sophisticated yet simple the design is, how everything was taken care of and how everything works just the way it should for your own safety, comfort and maximum reliability Commercials now: a random family driving through city and countryside, buy it now
terradrive They had to draw every frame and take a picture of each drawing in good lighting then arrange them in order and transpire them onto film and then splice the film together with the actual footage.
Oh gosh, that didn't occur to me. I'm so used to computer animation that I basically just assumed computer usage. Man, that is good quality for being done by hand like that
@@bentrod3405 "They had to draw every frame and take a picture of each drawing" They were not that dumb. It is rather simple and for such technical animations not that much work. Each part of the brake is drawn once on its own glas panel (yes, glas) and then they all were assembled in the configuration needed for that frame, the photographed. Then they were moved ever so slightly for the next frame, photographed again, rins and repeat. You can also nicely see that the hand is of way lower quality as that is an organic deforming part - those had to be drawn for each distinct frame (but there are not many, maybe 20 in total.)
Asbestos was used in so many aplications because it is very strong and resistant material, in fact that is the main reason why it is so cancerogenic...
"Development of disc-type brakes began in England in the 1890s. In 1902, the Lanchester Motor Company designed brakes that looked and operated in a similar way to a modern disc-brake system even though the disc was thin and a cable activated the brake pad."
Am I the only one who literally can't stand even back then evidently present everything U.S. wallowing in self-adulation? My God, the self-aggrandisement is tiresome! _»We are the greatest, most awesome!!!«_ That boastful arrogance makes sick.
@@jeepmanxj I'm just saying, the videos might be _way_ more enjoyable if it *weren't* for their constant self-adulation - it's extremely tedious and gets almost pesky at times. … to the point, that you sometimes annoyingly just want to scream at your monitor, _“Will ya just shut the f-ck up for once and explain the principle with a tiny bit less sensationalism and cheap self-praise, you c0cky m0r0n!?”_ The U.S. literally can't get across something technical (or anything, if we're already at it…), without praising themselves to the skies and picture everything U.S. as _oh so_ star-sprangled awesome. Decadence in pure form.
@@dragenoxinside IG I am an Automatic Transmission rebuilder and have a family business of42 Ys it is amazing how things have changed in the last decade+ but we're not going to let them stop us from the auto repair business especially automatic Transmissions, That's all we do,YES YOU are correct, that thay don't want you to be able to (DIY) but because my Brothers and I have a great start we Will be able to stay in the business of Rebuilding automatic Transmissions Hopefully for a long time 😱😂 THANKS 😊
It's a different theory of advertising. Today, emotion connected to a brand is the primary goal of ads. Back then, the trend was for a more "scientific" approach, educating consumers about why your product is better. This makes sense, as it came at a time when new products were frequent, just as it is today. So, it should be no surprise that educational marketing still happens, today. We call it "content marketing," and its how I make my living partially. if I were writing this script today, I don't think I'd say "Chevrolet" quite so many times, but otherwise, it would be a great blog post or ad spot script for a podcast. My point is, times have always been as they are: sometimes good, sometimes bad, and always in flux. There is no such thing as the "good old days," only the naturally nostalgic affect of our imperfect memories.
@@rasterbate87 I'm 90% sure that all those technical videos weren't meant for the general public but more for dealerships or marketing people so they know what they're talking about.
Drchainsaw77 you know, at 19 years old and doing 0-60 in 4.5 seconds now with a lil tune, its gonna take quite a while. What's that brand new Kia Stinger do? 4.3 seconds, 19 years later? Hmmm I'm still running NA. With a lil turbo, i could make this car run 9 second quarter miles
What is so fantastic about this video is that it gives you an issue, explains _why_ the issue exists and is a problem, then tell you how it can be fixed. Like how it explained that heat can warp the breaking pivots, that it’s an issue because it wears down the breaking sleeves unevenly, and then explains that it can be fixed with a spring mechanism which evenly applies the sleeve every time.
Interesting and educational. Chevrolet was still pushing mechanical brakes in 1934. A friend of mine bought a 1929 Dodge that already had hydraulic brakes.
Ford held on to mechanical brakes the longest. Ol' Henry was a stubborn old goat that resisted change so long as he thought the status quo was "good enough".
It's 2022 i have 3 ad blockers installed, i refuse to watch live TV because of the ads, i pay for premium streaming services to avoid ads, and i'm here watching a 1934 ad for Chevrolet brakes. When they say "They don't make 'em like they use to" i'm pretty they are referring to these ads.
Yeah, we've come so far that some new cars in 2019 still use drum brakes (rear brakes in low powered cars) and the construction (except for having a self adjuster) is almost the same.
@@elliot7179 True, but they will fade quite a lot faster than disc's due to heat. Also drums are much more susceptible to losing their braking strength due to foreign material like water, dust or dirt getting into the drums. Lastly brake dust build up is another concern since drums are pretty much sealed. Not saying drums are bad, but they have a few bad disadvantages over disc's
The attention to detail in this animation is amazing. When they were trying to show an increased force, they even drew the human arm being tensed up. Truly educational, and from this I can infer the manufacturers/consumers perhaps sell/chose products more rationally back then, instead of being programmed to emotion-buy things that no one needs.
He is shouting, not because that's how people talked back then, but be because microphones were not very sensitive back then. If he talked normally, the hiss in the background would be much louder. This still applies today with consumer microphones. Want good audio quality; talk as loud as you comfortably can, then turn in down in editing to a normal volume.
According to Wikipedia, 1934 Chevrolets were powered by a 181 cu inch six cylinder engine producing 60 horsepower with a top speed of between 65-70 mph. Fast enough to kill you if your brakes failed.
Which they won't, due to their strong, mechanical, steel rods and strong, steel cables rated with a tensile strength of over 3000 pounds -- much higher than required!
Now nobody wants drum brakes. Even trucks only have them as a parking brake and that is inside a disc brake rotor. I heard they are a pain in the ass to change.
@@JohnDoe-gm5qr drum brakes are great when it comes to older cars that have discs infront and drums on back. Very little maintenance is required and they work really smoothly and do their job.
If i was living in USA 1930's and watch the Chevy commercial video, i will buy a Chevrolet for sure. Good work and that is better that today's crap. Thanks for the video.
Gone are they days when "Chevrolet" (and probably most automakers) would make something the best way possible because it is the best way possible. Today it's just the cheapest possible way that will probably still work. And all too often "probably" doesn't always work out if you've ever had a new car in for recall work.
They should make informative ads like this again, have a TV channel or two dedicated to them, and have different products at different hours, like 6pm is car hour, or 8pm is fridge hour.
I do feel like manufacturers just assume everyone is only concerned with the simplest or most obvious features of their products and won’t bother with this type of content anymore.
This style of animation and demonstration is something that would get 8 million views today What does that tell you about the skill of these people, that their production holds up nearly 100 years later? What does that tell you about the skill of the people making videos today that their work is matched by an advertisement from 1934?
I love how he says "mechanical" as even today all we get (popularly) is hydraulic disc breaks, as the electric ones lack the 'feel' of engagement. If it wasn't mechanical, what else could he say engaged the drum brakes? I'm really wondering
@Vince it's called midatlantic. People forget that people spoke in a transatlantic english, and not the serial killer dialect you all present today or "modern valley speak" as some call it. Midatlantic, not to be confused with transatlantic, transatlantic being everyday speech pattern or if you are making a movie in current day: british, because people don't understand that historical movies don't always have to be british voiced.
Funny enough I have a 2017 Holden (Chevy) Spark with brake drums like this at the rear. Lots of cars still have drums at the rear, makes sense as this reduces cost, maintenance costs and the front brakes do most of the work anyway.
2020 Chevy Infomercial: The modern Chevrolet is made and assembled in China, in only the finest sweat shops. These factories produce up to 1,000 cars per day, all for the price of 50 lbs of rice, and with minimal child labor.
I’ll do ford: this diesel is filled with garbage material. It might last for a week or maybe even a month. Come back year after year to sue us over it and then for our parting piece; the EcoBomb: the valves won’t close and then they’ll leak. The turbo fills with soot and doesn’t work or only works at full throttle. The parts you need to change will be happily changed by techs and usually average about $3000-$4000 for a simple water pump R&R. Oh, and it’s made wherever in one of our shops somewhere on the globe.
@@bolt_husky right on the money. Don't forget the crap transmissions that shudder instead of going into gear and will just go to neutral whenever they feel like as you go down the highway.
I drive a cable drum braked car and they're one of it's best points, fantastic things with so little to go wrong and more than capable of modern traffic.
We don't use brake drums anymore though, not nearly as much anymore anyways. But it shouldn't be easy to remove the brakes either, because that means they can fall apart easily too :P
The narration is a bit deliberately misleading … hydraulic brakes did spread pressure to each wheel more evenly (?) Also hydraulic brakes were available on a growing number of makes at this point, still new but…even on Plymouth a direct competitor to Chevrolet
If you isolate the sound right channel, you can hear a totaly different sound track (you will need to crank the volume up to hear correctly, otherwise it will sound like whisper).
Not only was it common practice to use the shop air to blow the dust off the backing plate , go into an auto parts store in the 1960's and 1970's . After your drums were cut , they put the brake shoes in a device that matched the curve of the shoe to the drum . The shoes were arced by passing them by a rotating cylinder with friction material that ground them down . This created a HUGE amount of asbestos dust when ground down to size . It allowed the shoes to contact the drum more closely after a brake replacement without waiting for them to wear in and have a spongy or soft brake pedal . This would give you a better " pedal " and less stopping distance . I can't imagine the large volume of dust inhaled by people that did this all day long in that era . How many lung cancer cases were related to this ?
If I saw this video in the 30th, I'd got up from my couch, found a job, created a family (with two kids), kept healthy lifestyle...and..if i lived until this moment, I'd liked this video😂 The reason - strongest, motivated and the most emotional voice. 😂
I'm not the kind of person to say "things were better in the old days" because there are always problems with any point in history. But damn do I wish companies innovated now like they did back then.
If only modern day physics explanations were as clear as this I might pass my exams xD but instead now the only exam I'll pass is one about 1930's Chevrolet cars from all these advertisements XD
I was watching a video of a guy who owns a V12 Panzer engine starting it up. As the video ends, there's recommendations. I see this video with the thought in the back of my mind that my Honda Shadow has rear drum brakes.....and so now I'm here.... God damn it....
Malcolm Lockheed patented hydraulic brakes in 1917. Fred Duesenberg used Lockheed hydraulic brakes on his 1914 racing cars, and on Duesenberg motor cars starting in 1921. Walter P. Chrysler started using Lockheed hydraulic brakes in 1928 on all vehicles made by Chrysler. Other US manufacturers didn't adopt hydraulic brakes until 1936-1939. GM and Ford were kinda late to the idea.
Somewhat of a good reason. The early hydraulic systems were terrible, actually very leaky. The materials used were just not up to our discerning modern standars. Plus, when a line broke in the early days the whole system would lose fluid and pressure, meaning no brakes.
@@gregbaird7582 "The materials used were just not up to our discerning modern standards." why even mention "modern standards" no one is arguing that, just for the standards of the time. The leaking issue was largely solved by the time the Aero industry invested in Hydraulics in the 1930's. " Plus, when a line broke in the early days the whole system would lose fluid and pressure, meaning no brakes." Yes it was a rare problem as too when the Cable system stretched, leading to unbalanced uneven breaking that could just as easily cause the car to handle very dangerously
For the road conditions and horsepower of the time, hydraulic brakes weren't really needed. Most cars rarely saw speeds north of 50mph. Which is why Indianapolis and Daytona advertising speeds in excess of 100mph was a big deal back then. You could say the same for engines...Harry Miller had already pioneered supercharged dual over cam engines in excess of 1hp per cubic inch 10 years before this video came out. Why were production cars only make 60hp then? Because the benefits didn't outweigh the costs yet.
After Waching like 100 of These Videos
I could build my own Chevrolet!
i know... i have binged watched at least 3 hours of this lmfao
I don't think it's impossible, honestly
I just dont understand y he felt the need to yell thru the whole vidjayo
@@jbstepchild as somebody mentioned before, I don't think it would convincing if he wasn't shouting, by that era standards
Why not, Johnny Cash did... One Piece At A Time... lol.
Commercials then: notice how toughly built our car is, how sophisticated yet simple the design is, how everything was taken care of and how everything works just the way it should for your own safety, comfort and maximum reliability
Commercials now: a random family driving through city and countryside, buy it now
They were also 10 minutes long.
Yep, this old stuff is far more educational and understandable than the crap we get today
Commercials then is like Japanese website, fully cramped with informations.
Commercials now is like western websites, sleek and simple.
People paid to see things like at the time, so it's more like top gun in a way.
ahh yeah, the tiresome old trope that everything in the past was better than the present. ugh.
I'm more amazed of the quality of animations made without computer in the 30's
terradrive They had to draw every frame and take a picture of each drawing in good lighting then arrange them in order and transpire them onto film and then splice the film together with the actual footage.
Oh gosh, that didn't occur to me. I'm so used to computer animation that I basically just assumed computer usage. Man, that is good quality for being done by hand like that
it was all literally hand drawn in the film reels back then. back when being an editor was really hard work.
@@bentrod3405 "They had to draw every frame and take a picture of each drawing"
They were not that dumb.
It is rather simple and for such technical animations not that much work. Each part of the brake is drawn once on its own glas panel (yes, glas) and then they all were assembled in the configuration needed for that frame, the photographed. Then they were moved ever so slightly for the next frame, photographed again, rins and repeat.
You can also nicely see that the hand is of way lower quality as that is an organic deforming part - those had to be drawn for each distinct frame (but there are not many, maybe 20 in total.)
ABaumstumpf ok but that’s still a lot of dedication to make it look good
He starts getting very enthusiastic at the double pivot part.
He noticed he needed to calm down around 7:20
Yeah, it appears while talking about the double pivot he climaxed at about 6:00.
@@ohreally8929sus
My left ear really enjoyed this video
Hotshot Diaries worn out headphones?
Oscar E. Fontanez anti stereo headphones
Sounds like your headphones are bad.
My right ear might be broke.
@@coletrickle1775 no, the video is mono, just one channel
I love how the brake lever bends and the muscles flex showing how much force they are applying to it.
that's detail! :D
I noticed the same. Glad I'm not the only one. 😄
i think Disney had hand on it xD i think its called exaggeration 8)
¨we have chosen the very asBESTos brake material we could find"
There is a city in Quebec named Asbestos. I am not sure it that is where it got its name.
@@JohnDoe-gm5qr That's definitely where it got its name.
Very good
Asbestos was used in so many aplications because it is very strong and resistant material, in fact that is the main reason why it is so cancerogenic...
@@Bialy_1 www.chemistryworld.com/news/why-asbestos-is-still-used-around-the-world/3007504.article
Not was, it's STILL used
Seeing how disc brakes didn't arrive until the early 1950s, these Chevy brakes were pretty much "state of the art" for their time.
Disc brakes were around much earlier, particularly in the aircraft industry, but they were too expensive to be practical for standard automobiles.
and drums were used in the rear of trucks up umtil 2016, they are cheaper and last far longer
@@jacobsweat1520 Drums are still used for some applications.
@@jacobsweat1520 cheap cars still have drums in the rear to this day.
"Development of disc-type brakes began in England in the 1890s. In 1902, the Lanchester Motor Company designed brakes that looked and operated in a similar way to a modern disc-brake system even though the disc was thin and a cable activated the brake pad."
8:07 "The 300 pound man couldn't spring a single part" of the mechanical brake system"...maybe, but it looks like he gave the seat springs a workout.
🤣🤣🤣
The seat of that car: "Kill me. Kill me. Kill me..."
Job offering by the QA department - "Requirement: Body weight of at least 300 pounds".
😄😄😄
300 lb man. That is 1/2 of American men now.
"Is it any wonder that Chevrolet owners speed along without any thought of brakes?"
This is still true in late 2019.
Maybe that's why they all drive 10 under all the time
Not thinking about them because they don't work.
Am I the only one who literally can't stand even back then evidently present everything U.S. wallowing in self-adulation?
My God, the self-aggrandisement is tiresome! _»We are the greatest, most awesome!!!«_ That boastful arrogance makes sick.
@@Smartcom5 you are reaching for something. I'm not sure if you'll find it here
@@jeepmanxj I'm just saying, the videos might be _way_ more enjoyable if it *weren't* for their constant self-adulation - it's extremely tedious and gets almost pesky at times.
… to the point, that you sometimes annoyingly just want to scream at your monitor, _“Will ya just shut the f-ck up for once and explain the principle with a tiny bit less sensationalism and cheap self-praise, you c0cky m0r0n!?”_
The U.S. literally can't get across something technical (or anything, if we're already at it…), without praising themselves to the skies and picture everything U.S. as _oh so_ star-sprangled awesome. Decadence in pure form.
I love these old videos. When times were more simpler and when they liked to explain things thoroughly. 10/10
It's all most impossible to explain cars nowadays 😂
@@louisedwards6681 I disagree. The companies just don't want you educated.
@@dragenoxinside IG I am an Automatic Transmission rebuilder and have a family business of42 Ys it is amazing how things have changed in the last decade+ but we're not going to let them stop us from the auto repair business especially automatic Transmissions, That's all we do,YES YOU are correct, that thay don't want you to be able to (DIY) but because my Brothers and I have a great start we Will be able to stay in the business of Rebuilding automatic Transmissions Hopefully for a long time 😱😂 THANKS 😊
It's a different theory of advertising. Today, emotion connected to a brand is the primary goal of ads. Back then, the trend was for a more "scientific" approach, educating consumers about why your product is better. This makes sense, as it came at a time when new products were frequent, just as it is today. So, it should be no surprise that educational marketing still happens, today. We call it "content marketing," and its how I make my living partially. if I were writing this script today, I don't think I'd say "Chevrolet" quite so many times, but otherwise, it would be a great blog post or ad spot script for a podcast. My point is, times have always been as they are: sometimes good, sometimes bad, and always in flux. There is no such thing as the "good old days," only the naturally nostalgic affect of our imperfect memories.
@@rasterbate87 I'm 90% sure that all those technical videos weren't meant for the general public but more for dealerships or marketing people so they know what they're talking about.
Oh my god! He convinced me. Where can I get Chevrolet cable operated brakes?? I don't want crappy hydraulic discs with ABS.
Yep, Heaven forbid you drive a 1929 Dodge with hydraulic brakes. LOL! Makes us appreciate what we have now.
I hope this is sarcasm, I'm pretty happy with my 4 pot brembos that can bring my 3500lb m3 to a dead stop from 80mph in little over 120ft
That technology is still mounted on some low cost car
Drchainsaw77 you know, at 19 years old and doing 0-60 in 4.5 seconds now with a lil tune, its gonna take quite a while. What's that brand new Kia Stinger do? 4.3 seconds, 19 years later? Hmmm I'm still running NA. With a lil turbo, i could make this car run 9 second quarter miles
Speed is limited to our ability to stop,and probably increased after the fourth beer 😄
I find old films like these almost poetic. The text is very well done and it has a peculiar way of catching your attention.
Mechanically operated drum brakes! The last word on stopping power!
I really love these old videos from when these concepts were cutting edge.
💯agree! I LOVE them, and watch them as frequently as YT recommends.
The narrator claims this is literally perfection in brake technology
What is so fantastic about this video is that it gives you an issue, explains _why_ the issue exists and is a problem, then tell you how it can be fixed.
Like how it explained that heat can warp the breaking pivots, that it’s an issue because it wears down the breaking sleeves unevenly, and then explains that it can be fixed with a spring mechanism which evenly applies the sleeve every time.
I love the narrator's infectious enthusiasm.
Interesting and educational. Chevrolet was still pushing mechanical brakes in 1934. A friend of mine bought a 1929 Dodge that already had hydraulic brakes.
Ford held on to mechanical brakes the longest. Ol' Henry was a stubborn old goat that resisted change so long as he thought the status quo was "good enough".
It's 2022 i have 3 ad blockers installed, i refuse to watch live TV because of the ads, i pay for premium streaming services to avoid ads, and i'm here watching a 1934 ad for Chevrolet brakes. When they say "They don't make 'em like they use to" i'm pretty they are referring to these ads.
Wow amazing how far we've come - even bicycles have hydraulic disc brakes these days.
Yeah, we've come so far that some new cars in 2019 still use drum brakes (rear brakes in low powered cars) and the construction (except for having a self adjuster) is almost the same.
draconpost my friends 2015 Tacoma has drums in the rear, they work great and haven’t been touched in 80 thousand miles
Elliot my motorcycle disagrees with you
@@Racing_Fox haha no worries , all opinions are valid
@@elliot7179 True, but they will fade quite a lot faster than disc's due to heat. Also drums are much more susceptible to losing their braking strength due to foreign material like water, dust or dirt getting into the drums. Lastly brake dust build up is another concern since drums are pretty much sealed. Not saying drums are bad, but they have a few bad disadvantages over disc's
I love the detail they gave in his hand as he applied the pressure
7:10 rulers compass and pencils, thats some hardcore engineering for you.
state of the art computers, right there
The attention to detail in this animation is amazing. When they were trying to show an increased force, they even drew the human arm being tensed up. Truly educational, and from this I can infer the manufacturers/consumers perhaps sell/chose products more rationally back then, instead of being programmed to emotion-buy things that no one needs.
This is a propaganda video telling people that Chevy's mechanical brakes were still better than somebody elses' hydraulic brakes.
if the narrator weren't shouting, it's doubtful i would be convinced
i love his passion to break drums
@@PiecykM "brake"
He was not shouting. That is how people spoke back those days.
He is shouting, not because that's how people talked back then, but be because microphones were not very sensitive back then. If he talked normally, the hiss in the background would be much louder.
This still applies today with consumer microphones. Want good audio quality; talk as loud as you comfortably can, then turn in down in editing to a normal volume.
Learned more in 10 minutes than I did in the entirety of high school.
According to Wikipedia, 1934 Chevrolets were powered by a 181 cu inch six cylinder engine producing 60 horsepower with a top speed of between 65-70 mph. Fast enough to kill you if your brakes failed.
Which they won't, due to their strong, mechanical, steel rods and strong, steel cables rated with a tensile strength of over 3000 pounds -- much higher than required!
@@10NBLR I read that with the narrator's voice haha
Note they arn't offering any stopping times, or how long before those cables stretch and need balance adjustment.
@@DanafoxyVixen because the proof is in the pudding, and it was 1934
@@10NBLR 69+1
This guy is way too excited about drum brakes.
You haven't been exposed to the early cars yet, cute.
Now nobody wants drum brakes. Even trucks only have them as a parking brake and that is inside a disc brake rotor. I heard they are a pain in the ass to change.
Imagine his reaction to disc brakes
@@JohnDoe-gm5qr drum brakes are great when it comes to older cars that have discs infront and drums on back. Very little maintenance is required and they work really smoothly and do their job.
If anything, he's not excited enough! I've been watching these videos for three days (someone help)
How wonderful! I love the script. “What a paradox!”
I've been reading all of these comments in the same exited voice as the man in the ad :-D
Good lord... This should be every educational film. From basic elements to the vacuum of space.
If i was living in USA 1930's and watch the Chevy commercial video, i will buy a Chevrolet for sure. Good work and that is better that today's crap. Thanks for the video.
If the annoucer was that excited about brakes, you can just imagine his reaction on his wedding night
I'm sure he was excited about and by friction that night as well.
These ads are amazing! It not only shows that the product is good, BUT ALSO SHOWS WHY. Amazing!
"Is it any wonder that Chevrolet owners speed along without any thought of brakes?"
Pffffff. I have a couple ideas lololol
yes owo
You can imagine a family gathering around their one TV set to watch this educational film. We need to hit the reset button, fast.
Gone are they days when "Chevrolet" (and probably most automakers) would make something the best way possible because it is the best way possible. Today it's just the cheapest possible way that will probably still work. And all too often "probably" doesn't always work out if you've ever had a new car in for recall work.
when ads were bearable, funny, and educational to watch:
They should make informative ads like this again, have a TV channel or two dedicated to them, and have different products at different hours, like 6pm is car hour, or 8pm is fridge hour.
I do feel like manufacturers just assume everyone is only concerned with the simplest or most obvious features of their products and won’t bother with this type of content anymore.
I can't stop watching these.
My left ear thoroughly enjoyed this informational short
I like watching these videos it helps me understand how my 57 Chevy works
This style of animation and demonstration is something that would get 8 million views today
What does that tell you about the skill of these people, that their production holds up nearly 100 years later?
What does that tell you about the skill of the people making videos today that their work is matched by an advertisement from 1934?
It's not only a great source to learn but it's also great to see how far technology for cars has come
Why modern Americans don't speak like this guy. His English is fully comprehensible!
I love these films from the 1930s! Very informative, and easy to understand!
Why these 1930s car videos keep coming on my top feed...
I love it!
Because your keep watching them
My...such a sense of urgency and dramatic display of hi-tech I think I’m going to go buy myself a brand new 1934 Chevrolet
Rush hour at 1934, amazing.
This ad makes me want to buy a Chevrolet now.How good ad was that time
I love how he says "mechanical" as even today all we get (popularly) is hydraulic disc breaks, as the electric ones lack the 'feel' of engagement. If it wasn't mechanical, what else could he say engaged the drum brakes? I'm really wondering
Very thoughtful and touching. I love you friction
Did every guy in the 30s have the same voice?
the stereo microphone wasnt developed until Hitler ordered a special microphone to record Frances surrender.
@Vince it's called midatlantic. People forget that people spoke in a transatlantic english, and not the serial killer dialect you all present today or "modern valley speak" as some call it. Midatlantic, not to be confused with transatlantic, transatlantic being everyday speech pattern or if you are making a movie in current day: british, because people don't understand that historical movies don't always have to be british voiced.
Funny enough I have a 2017 Holden (Chevy) Spark with brake drums like this at the rear. Lots of cars still have drums at the rear, makes sense as this reduces cost, maintenance costs and the front brakes do most of the work anyway.
2020 Chevy Infomercial:
The modern Chevrolet is made and assembled in China, in only the finest sweat shops. These factories produce up to 1,000 cars per day, all for the price of 50 lbs of rice, and with minimal child labor.
I’ll do ford: this diesel is filled with garbage material. It might last for a week or maybe even a month. Come back year after year to sue us over it and then for our parting piece; the EcoBomb: the valves won’t close and then they’ll leak. The turbo fills with soot and doesn’t work or only works at full throttle. The parts you need to change will be happily changed by techs and usually average about $3000-$4000 for a simple water pump R&R. Oh, and it’s made wherever in one of our shops somewhere on the globe.
@@bolt_husky 🎵Ford is the best in Texas!🎵
@@bolt_husky right on the money. Don't forget the crap transmissions that shudder instead of going into gear and will just go to neutral whenever they feel like as you go down the highway.
put your headphone p2 plug halfway in for stereo audio
No one :
*Cars going 15 mph*
Narrator :"**SPEED SPEED SPEED SPEED !!!**'
I drive a cable drum braked car and they're one of it's best points, fantastic things with so little to go wrong and more than capable of modern traffic.
86 years since this video was made and they still can't design a brake drum that can be removed easily. But at least our cars have TVs now!
We don't use brake drums anymore though, not nearly as much anymore anyways. But it shouldn't be easy to remove the brakes either, because that means they can fall apart easily too :P
This reminds me of my friend sneed. Bought a feed and seed shop from my brother Chuck.
Oh, the degree of PERFECTION!
This voice actor is a fucking chad. Rest in peace to him.
Edit: Fuck, after watching this. I want to buy some century old brakes
Does anyone know what city is shown starting at 1:15? Double-Decker buses and three lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic for as far as you can see.
My guess, and only a guess, New York, or Chicago.
Marvelously informative, and a great window of viewing the the clarity and overall class of those grander times.
I've never heard someone get so excited for brakes
And, don't let that "stop" you from watching more Jam Handy productions!
lol i love how when the cartoon arm pulls the lever it all of a sudden get shredded. good attention to detail tho i really enjoy watching these!!
Notice how Chevrolet drivers drive so recklessly? Good brakes is the reason!
Switch your punctuation around and you got yourself a statement!
Steven Pham Ah, the good ol’ switcharoo
Here I am at 1 in the morning watching what I think is a advertisement and documentary love child.
THE WAY THE ANNOUNCER WAS PROMOTING THE SIMPLICITY
OF THE ROD AND CABLE LINKAGE
WAS THAT CHRYSLER HYDRAULIC BRAKE WERE A NEW THING!
The narration is a bit deliberately misleading … hydraulic brakes did spread pressure to each wheel more evenly (?) Also hydraulic brakes were available on a growing number of makes at this point, still new but…even on Plymouth a direct competitor to Chevrolet
I love the 'degree of perfection' comment about their drum brakes :)
who else is watching in 1934?
If you isolate the sound right channel, you can hear a totaly different sound track (you will need to crank the volume up to hear correctly, otherwise it will sound like whisper).
I love how intense the narrator is for the entire video especially around 6:20, he was getting worked up 🤣
Thanks for sharing all this know-how to the Japanese!!
Not only was it common practice to use the shop air to blow the dust off the backing plate , go into an auto parts store in the 1960's and 1970's . After your drums were cut , they put the brake shoes in a device that matched the curve of the shoe to the drum . The shoes were arced by passing them by a rotating cylinder with friction material that ground them down . This created a HUGE amount of asbestos dust when ground down to size . It allowed the shoes to contact the drum more closely after a brake replacement without waiting for them to wear in and have a spongy or soft brake pedal . This would give you a better " pedal " and less stopping distance . I can't imagine the large volume of dust inhaled by people that did this all day long in that era . How many lung cancer cases were related to this ?
If I saw this video in the 30th, I'd got up from my couch, found a job, created a family (with two kids), kept healthy lifestyle...and..if i lived until this moment, I'd liked this video😂 The reason - strongest, motivated and the most emotional voice. 😂
How is it this is more educational than most of my high-school years.
haha wow, I need to sleep... I have been watching these for too long now.
Man! That guy really, really likes brakes!
I'm not the kind of person to say "things were better in the old days" because there are always problems with any point in history. But damn do I wish companies innovated now like they did back then.
And the next video i watched was Hydraulics Brake system by Chevrolet 😂😂😂 they upgraded within 2 years
I would gladly watch "Ads" like these over any show on TV today.
If only modern day physics explanations were as clear as this I might pass my exams xD but instead now the only exam I'll pass is one about 1930's Chevrolet cars from all these advertisements XD
So I want a Chevrolet now...one sold to me by the narrator of this video
7:59 "What could be safer?"
Lol!
I love these old videos. Brings the commen sense back into practical application.
"Facts on Friction".. Brought to you by KY Jelly..
I was watching a video of a guy who owns a V12 Panzer engine starting it up. As the video ends, there's recommendations. I see this video with the thought in the back of my mind that my Honda Shadow has rear drum brakes.....and so now I'm here....
God damn it....
Yup. I'm convinced. My next car will be a Chevrolet.
I love these old videos
"What could be safer?" A power assisted hydraulic drum/disk combo
They had no idea about Disc brake back then. Well they kinda had but mass production of them was not an option. It began many years later in 1955.
@@oldi184they had disc brakes but they were pretty new.
So thankful for disc-brakes and breaking with oilpressure that equalises itself solving a lot of the problems shown here.
I love cadmium and asbestos. And corrosion in mechanical brakes. :)
cadmium coating is better than zinc, coz cadmium do not react with sodium-like substance (like soap and others basic cleansing agents).
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@@alicekohler9405congratulations on coming out!
Thanks for making me check my right speaker in panic. Great video and thanks for sharing btw.
1:19 i am surprised by the traffic
me too
I love watching old adverts that talk about obsolete things like they're new innovations.
7:08 - RESPECT
I'm more excited about Chevrolet brake shoes than I have been in a long time!
I love the way he says Hweel
Man, I'm now all hyped up for drum brakes!!
Malcolm Lockheed patented hydraulic brakes in 1917. Fred Duesenberg used Lockheed hydraulic brakes on his 1914 racing cars, and on Duesenberg motor cars starting in 1921. Walter P. Chrysler started using Lockheed hydraulic brakes in 1928 on all vehicles made by Chrysler. Other US manufacturers didn't adopt hydraulic brakes until 1936-1939. GM and Ford were kinda late to the idea.
Somewhat of a good reason. The early hydraulic systems were terrible, actually very leaky.
The materials used were just not up to our discerning modern standars. Plus, when a line broke in the early days the whole system would lose fluid and pressure, meaning no brakes.
@@gregbaird7582 "The materials used were just not up to our discerning modern standards." why even mention "modern standards" no one is arguing that, just for the standards of the time.
The leaking issue was largely solved by the time the Aero industry invested in Hydraulics in the 1930's.
" Plus, when a line broke in the early days the whole system would lose fluid and pressure, meaning no brakes." Yes it was a rare problem as too when the Cable system stretched, leading to unbalanced uneven breaking that could just as easily cause the car to handle very dangerously
For the road conditions and horsepower of the time, hydraulic brakes weren't really needed. Most cars rarely saw speeds north of 50mph. Which is why Indianapolis and Daytona advertising speeds in excess of 100mph was a big deal back then. You could say the same for engines...Harry Miller had already pioneered supercharged dual over cam engines in excess of 1hp per cubic inch 10 years before this video came out. Why were production cars only make 60hp then? Because the benefits didn't outweigh the costs yet.
Brake shoes made of asbestos for heat resistance and metal parts cadmium plated for rust resistance. Awesome!