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I believe its from 1950's -

http://www.webzeum.com/VintageFilms/Triumph/tabid/56/Default.aspx

I lost the plot after listening to the music for too long!

It IS kind of long, isn't it? But an enjoyable trip back to the days when motorcycle building was indeed a craft. Modern manufacturing techniques and machines are producing a beautiful new breed of Triumph motorcycles for us to enjoy today, but the human touch and the sheer craftsmanship of the old days is gone...sadly, I think.

How many workplace health & safety issues can we find in that? It truly was a different time.

I say Ol' Boy, I had a jolly good time watching that! The cinema can be so informative, don't you think?!

But I rather doubt Alexander Korda produced this tidy film.

(This has been a RANK[amateur] production....somebody cue the muscleman with the gong, will ya?!)

Cheers,
Dwight
(actually this beat the hell outta those old "Hygiene And You" films that we had to sit through back in the "old school" days, huh?!....but I guess they WERE a good way to catch up on your sleep back then)

geez that's wonderful. an old fart's delight. The amount of hand finishing that went into those puppies is staggering!

did anyone notice anybody useing a torque wrench at anytime??? and was that a butterknife he was useing to adjust the clutch??? thank you very much for posting that!!! i really had some other things i needed to be doing for the last 1/2hr but i couldnt drag myself away hahahahahaha i gotta say I ENJOYED THAT!!!!!

Yep newt,

I also noticed the absence of any torque wrench there too. I guess when you were schooled in the techniques of "old world craftsmanship", tools such as those were superfluous, huh?!

I remember reading somewhere a few year ago, that back in the day, at both the old Coventry and at the newer Meriden plant, workers would take half a dozen different stampings of the same piece, and would then choose between those pieces the ones that would fit together the best.(talk about your "precision-built" parts, huh?!)

I guess back then it was more an art than a science when it came to building these machines.

Cheers,
Dwight

There's a BSA factory video on the same site. Same sort of vintage and factory content but more scenes outside the factory including a rousing game of "housey housey" (I did not make that up). Both films show companies bursting with pride at how their products were used all over the world. A different era.

The overall webzeum site is a bit hard to navigate but there's a bunch of vintage bike stuff there.

webzeum home page

OK, anyone want to explain what "Housey Housey" is?

apparently that's 1958-Brit for bingo. Hey, I had to watch the video to find that out.

I was going to ask why you guys had so much time on your hands to find out about Bingo, torque wrenches and other parts of this video posted...but then I thought of how I came accross the video in the first place... and what I had been searching for...Im still none the wiser!...I find myself guilty..but mitigating circumstances are a broken elbow which is nearly healed. (another story)

Cor Blighty looks very clean in both of those videos, Has anyone tried tracing the registration plates through the DVLA website to see if any are still on the road today