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I Am A Car, Documentary, 1954

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8212031952 Atkinson L1586 [*]
8212071954 Austin A30 [*][*]
8212141948 Austin A40 Pickup [*]
8211811954 Austin A50 Cambridge [*][*][*][*][*]
8212061954 Austin A70 Hereford [*][*]
8212041954 Austin K4 Loadstar MkII [*][*]
8212131937 Austin Ten Cambridge [*]
821209Dennis Pax [*]
8212121945 Dodge 81 [*]
8212101950 Ford V8 Pilot [*][*]
8212151950 Morris Oxford [*]
8212021954 Nash Metropolitan [*]
8212111952 Singer SM 1500 [*]
8212081948 Standard Eight [*]


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dsl SX

◊ 2015-06-12 04:39

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Nothing on imcdb; promo film on this DVD
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- see /movie.php?id=1004516488 . Can also be seen here - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/i-am-a-car-version-1

18 minutes of total twaddle about how the new 1954 Cambridge is the best car that's ever been made. Even someone interested in the Cambridge would have lost the will to live after about 5 minutes.

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rjluna2 US

◊ 2015-06-12 13:12
dsl wrote Traffic lights for rjluna

Thanks, dsl :)

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Q-Ball JP

◊ 2015-06-12 16:39

 I guess the Nissan contract to build the Cambridge went to their heads.

dsl SX

◊ 2015-06-12 17:04

 That Nissan connection is an interesting thought. The film might make more sense as a corporate sales pitch for Nissan to buy the rights to the new model and maybe also to BMC joint-venture overseas assemblies (although the obvious target of Aus was Morris and Wolseley only until 1957).

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2015-06-12 19:10

 I don't understand your comment, DSL.

BMC was formed in 1952, and integration of engine and transmission production was in full swing for the A and B series drive trains by 1954. Unfortunately, the well designed Austin drive trains were accompanied by 1958/9 by the horrible Austin coil spring and recirculating ball front suspension and steering in the Farinas, which could not match the Morris design, used in the Minor, Cowley and Oxford. After the deletion of the 15/50 and 6/90 models, Wolseleys became badge engineered Austins, like Morrises and Rileys. Shame.

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2015-06-12 19:26
Q-Ball wrote I guess the Nissan contract to build the Cambridge went to their heads.


Why? Nissan produced 12,000 vehicles in 1950, Austin produced 117,000 cars, plus trucks and vans in 1949. As a car maker, Nissan was little more than peanuts at the time of this deal, look at their product range (the 1947 Standard DA two door saloon or the 1951 Thrift, perhaps) before the introduction of the Austin designs in 1952 with the A40 Somerset. Austin designs got Nissan going, Austin/BMC management allowed them to expand because the managers and staff relations at BMC were so poor that their company fell apart.

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dsl SX

◊ 2015-06-12 19:36

 Basically I was just trying to imagine what type of audience might appreciate the film - it's far too long-winded and ridiculously pompous (eg closing voiceover comment - "This is the finest car in its class ever to be produced by any country. Depend on it. You can depend on Austin") to keep an ordinary Joe Bloggs awake. But could work better for a corporate audience sitting in a boardroom who might be looking at the marketing style as well as the product. The Aus assembly point is simply that they only made Morris and Wolseley models from start up in 1950 until the first Austin-based production in 59 (not 57 as I wrote above). These 1959 launches were - ironically - the pre-Farina longtail A55 and A95, not the ducktail A40/A50/A90.

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2015-06-12 19:44

 I thought that Aus meant Austin, not Australia, which I always think of as Oz.

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