A letter from Kuwait, 
Documentary, 1960
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◊ 2025-07-21 19:41 |
https://www.dfi.dk/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/film/26990 https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_letter_from_Kuwait -- Last edit: 2025-07-21 19:42:11 |
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◊ 2025-07-24 22:46 |
 Excellent selection of stuff![[Image: i002013604.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/25/i002013604.jpg) 1957 Morris ½-Ton Series III Pickup worth a page - we've only got 3 and Kuwait examples must have been rarer than a very rare thing. |
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◊ 2025-07-24 23:31 |
I'm glad you liked this selection .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2025-07-24 23:56 |
Lovely metallic landscape... Arab countries were fantastic for old cars. I was in Syria in 1991 and one third of the cars were pre-1966 from all the world, most american, but many German, British, French, Italian and even Japanese. More moder cars were stocks. For instance I clearly remember a lot of Mazda 929 of the 1978-80 period and Opel Ascona B (all in Berlina trim and with a vinil roof but not in metasllic colors). |
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◊ 2025-07-25 00:34 |
This reminds me of how every time i see photos of the cars in Bahrain from the 50's to early 70's and then wonder how in a single decade did the cars go from being a mix of British, American and German (plus other nations) to largely being Japanese by the time 80s rolled around. -- Last edit: 2025-07-25 00:35:03 |
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◊ 2025-07-25 14:08 |
Yes, you are absolutely right. In Jordan at the same time I was in Syria, cars were newer and mostly Japanese, excluding Mercedeses, Volvos, Peugeots and few others. Unfortunately I never was in Nahrein. |
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◊ 2025-07-25 15:17 |
The faith of British cars is somehow linked with the end of the British Empire. They begun facing fierce competiton on markets that were considered mainly British in the colonial and post-colonialera, but the most important ones had gone before because they (Australia, New Zealand and South Africa first) wanted to have a local production, encouraging local assemblied and production. In the while UK was not in the European common market till 1972, a year before the oil embargo disaster that every one of us know well, and losing the great advanges that this meant in the late 50s and 60s. US cars were in great fashion (even in Europe) in the 50s and early 60s but afterthat they began to look (with some exceptions among mostly Mustang and other sports cars) too big and old fashioned. Italian lost the battle for quality in the 80s and 90s, as British had experienced in the 70s, and even French could possibly have the same experience later. Germans took the greatest advantage but moved toward a more expensive position (Even VW is no more a People Car as it was in the past) like German make of American origin slowly lost the war, too. Saab died leaving Volvo as the lone Swedish (owned by Chineses anyway) player. Who remains ? Japan, Korea and China. In the future I think just China excluding luxus and sports cars. -- Last edit: 2025-07-25 15:22:29 |
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◊ 2025-07-25 17:19 |
The main reason for the failure of the British motor industry lies in three places. 1. Governments who viewed cars as cash cows and then as undesirable aliens. (But still as cash cows.) 2. Dozy managements who could not understand that Joe Public wants a reliable and reasonably long lasting car to take a pride in. 3. Stroppy workforces whose main mission was to produce as few poor quality cars as they could get away with, for the maximum payment they could negotiate. -- Last edit: 2025-07-25 17:23:59 |
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◊ 2025-07-25 17:23 |
^ what about Lucas the prince of darkness ? |
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◊ 2025-07-25 17:34 |
That is utter rubbish. My 1953 Bentley has Lucas electrics, with the exception of the ignition distributor. If the design and quality of Lucas electrics were accepted by Rolls-Royce for almost its entire production at the time, and they were capable of meeting the requirements of quality and reliability in use, which they were, the blame for the poor reputation lies with those cheapskate motor companies who specified low priced junk and fitted it to their products. This is then made worse by poor, or no, maintenance when the cars were in use by penny pinching owners. Lucas built what their customers ordered. (See 2 above.) -- Last edit: 2025-07-25 20:00:39 |
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◊ 2025-07-25 18:02 |
Absolutely right, but the international arena was faithful, too. |
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◊ 2025-07-27 08:02 |
Probably the same reason why Japanese roads went from being dominated by American V8s in the 50s only to be replaced by Toyota and Nissan in less than 20 years. |
