Youtube - The Highways & Byways - 1934

[Steve Staysko]

Take a look at this Youtube video from 1934 with a few great looking Ford V8's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3n0umFNYZU

[outlaw]

Nice video. Thank you. Bill

[Mart]

Nice bit o film. Hadn't seen that one before and I really enjoyed it.

Mart.

[VeryTangled]

From the YouTube description:

"This evocative film from the early 1930s takes the viewer on a journey from Land's End to John O'Groats, giving them to opportunity to see all manner of Ford vehicles from that period in action. This includes Ford Populars and V8s through to trucks, tractors and even boats -- all using Ford engines. We see some impressive off-road action alongside nostalgic views of the British countryside along the way."


Pretty neat stuff! Beautiful scenery, educational, and cool cars doing cool stuff!

Thanks for the heads-up Steve!

[edit] Apparently this is not your average day-trip... see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%27...hn_o%27_Groats

[TJ]

It compares the Model Y with the full size V-8. Very interesting.

[FL&WVMIKE]

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Thanks for posting !
How about the '34 Roadster with a sidemount and rear luggage rack ?
Or the "AA"s going through an obsticle course ?
MIKE (mikeburch)

[Ross F-1]

I can't imagine a current owner of any of those cars beating on them like that! Yet I'll bet it was common back then.

[Lawson Cox]

I noticed the narrator called the Roadster a Cabriolet. Also, I didn't know Ford experimented with a Moon Roof back in the day. Interesting.

[deuce lover]

I think that's a 33 roadster and it had a 32 V8 hubcap on the rear.Check out the 32 roadster at 3min and 51 sec -downtown scene.

[Mart]

In the above scene the 32 is sporting a set of trade plates (note the triangle above the plate) and hilariously the small ford nearly runs a pedestrian over while demonstrating it's acceleration.

[Lawrie]

Thats my 33 and caravan in that movie.
Lawrie

[waterboychuck]

I noticed all the folks on the sidelines while the car drove by. Now that wasn't staged was it?

[FrankWest]

Originally Posted by TJ

It compares the Model Y with the full size V-8. Very interesting.

What is "the popular" they refer too?
Was that a Model B engine 50 hp or th british 12 hp model??

[Old Henry]

Originally Posted by Ross F-1

I can't imagine a current owner of any of those cars beating on them like that! Yet I'll bet it was common back then.

Originally Posted by Lawrie

Thats my 33 and caravan in that movie.
Lawrie

I've seen pictures of Lawrie in his 33 going "off road" like that. I know I still sure do in my 47. (Here are a couple of videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXR42yAxlsw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWEHZQpuiwI) Takes me back to when dad used Old Henry for his logging car in the 60's challenging every rough mountain road he came to. . . pulling a trailer too.

[Graeme / New Zealand]

That 9hp doing drifts was amusing. They are not as stable as Ford makes out. Back in the 70's when I was at school a mate had the later version E493A Prefect and he rolled it taking a corner too fast, it was not hard to do in the "upright pianos" because of their high centre of gravity. Lucky he had another one as they were cheap to buy and a dime a dozen. Over a weekend he took the bent body off it and replaced it with the body off the other and came to school with it on Monday with a change of colour from metallic brown to metallic blue.

GB

[FrankWest]

Originally Posted by Graeme / New Zealand

That 9hp doing drifts was amusing. They are not as stable as Ford makes out. Back in the 70's when I was at school a mate had the later version E493A Prefect and he rolled it taking a corner too fast, it was not hard to do in the "upright pianos" because of their high centre of gravity. Lucky he had another one as they were cheap to buy and a dime a dozen. Over a weekend he took the bent body off it and replaced it with the body off the other and came to school with it on Monday with a change of colour from metallic brown to metallic blue.

GB

9 HP amazing
My brother had an English ford in 1962 "angelia?"
It must have been very low horse power too.
I learned to drive on a VW BUS... I think it was 25 HP? don't know but know it didn't have much power!

[rheltzel]

Don't forget UK car taxes were based upon horsepower, so the game was to minimize the number, not exaggerate it like here in the colonies. 9 HP didn't equate to the same amount of power we equated it with.

[Mart]

The popular was the cheap 8HP model Y. It may have been cheap (£100 at one time) but still not many working class people could afford them. Hence the sparse traffic on the roads.

The Y was 8HP the V8 was 30HP and the smaller V8 was 22HP. RAC horsepower rating used for taxation purposes was a calculation based only on bore size, not stroke, so the development of engines in the UK was stunted somewhat as small bore long stroke designs prevailed.

Mart.

[FrankWest]

Originally Posted by Mart

The popular was the cheap 8HP model Y. It may have been cheap (£100 at one time) but still not many working class people could afford them. Hence the sparse traffic on the roads.

The Y was 8HP the V8 was 30HP and the smaller V8 was 22HP. RAC horsepower rating used for taxation purposes was a calculation based only on bore size, not stroke, so the development of engines in the UK was stunted somewhat as small bore long stroke designs prevailed.

Mart.

wow. that is interesting.
Hard to comprehend these low HP's
The vw bug was 1200 cc...engine...25 hp?

[Mart]

Frank, the RAC HP is just a number used for paying tax on the car. The 30HP V8 is the 85 horsepower motor we are familiar with.

Mart.