1948 MG Factory Film

This is great entertainment from a simpler era. The thing that surprised me was despite tens of thousands of cars crossing the Channel every year they were all craned on and off until the mid 1950.s when the first drive=on ferries appeared. The ferry now takes an hour and the tunnel train takes 35 minutes.

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Interesting film thanks Lang.
There's a beer tied up with the MG factory history, quite tasty too.
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Not that many cars went across the Channel as there were restrictions on taking currency out of the country and anyway it was all foreign to the poms. In the '50's it was a big deal just to go on a bus tour to 'the Continent'.

Look at this. By 1960 they had 90,000 cars by air. Prior to the start of the drive-on ferry in 1953 the lift-on ships carried in excess of 10,000 cars a year each way, they probably do that many a day now spread over the various channel ports plus the train?

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