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Landcrab Diamond Jubilee National Rally 2024 - Thanks to David Parker for spotting this good coverage on Youtube of the Landcrab 60th Anniversary at Gaydon starting at 3min 9 secs.
BMC and British Leyland Show 14/07/2024 |
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Rally
Review - Ken Green's car (SMO 227G) on the 1970 World Cup Rally
– Ken also has the film that Rob McCaulley took as he hung out of
the window!! (1.1mb mpeg Windows only). Also in .mov format here. |
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100
Years of Austin - Thanks to Steve Meredith for this clip featuring
Landcrabs in the arena at the Austin Centenary Weekend 2005. (6 minutes,
4.37mb, Windows Media Viewer format) |
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Time
Trial - Ken Green and Spencer Hall in the Kielder Forest on the evening
of 5/6/02 up against the clock in the Motor Cycle Club's Centenary rally.
(13 seconds) |
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Water
Splash - A dull morning in June on the hills above Llangollen in
the pouring rain results in a good photo opportunity while a Morgan Plus
4 waits to tiptoe through afterwards. (5 seconds) |
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Holiday Camp - The Club Treasurer's RMU 138F ventures into Devon
in the 1995 Haynes-RAC Motor Sports Rally to visit a holiday camp near
Chudleigh to an interesting commentary. (20 seconds) |
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Waterfall
- A picturesque location near Lampeter is marred by a perennial fog as
Ken Green hurries on to Bristol on 6/6/02. Note the red phone box. (20
seconds) |
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You
Tube - Morris
2200 - on the road Listen to the roar of that straight six.
You
Tube - Wolseley
Adventures A Wolseley 18/85 is awoken from hibernation! Not for
the faint-hearted.
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You
Tube - 1964
London Motor Show at Earls Court
You
Tube - 1965
Geneva Motor Show blink and you'll miss it! The half Landcrab appears at around 44 seconds in.
You
Tube - Austin
Morris dealers - Australian TV commercial
You
Tube - Holiday traffic, Devon 1970s One Landcrab and one Landlobster make very brief appearances. |
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You
Tube - There are some really exciting Landcrab related videos
posted by club member Spencer Hall on You Tube. Follow the links.
1.
The Chase - two Landcrabs tour round Bristol
2.
MCC Rally 2002 - the green machine goes yomping
3.
Austin 1800 Crashes at Thatcham Research Labs - another Landcrab
proves how tough it is
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You
Tube - Club member Adrian Smith has found the Children's Film and Television Foundation film "Breakout" featuring a Wolseley Six as the escaping villains' car!
Breakout |
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You
Tube - Shannons Club TV - show about Australia's motoring history on the road and in competition. This episode features the 1800!
Shannons Club TV |
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You
Tube - Any colour you like so long as it's orange - MkI features in this 1983 video for synthpop outfit The Human League.
(Keep Feeling) Fascination |
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You
Tube - Austin 1800 Ute on a river crossing - which do you think wins?
River Crossing |
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You
Tube - Wolseley 18/85 feature
Flawed Genius |
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TikTok - European Car of the Year - 1965 Austin 1800 - Practical Classics
Car Of The Year |
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Film/TV
Series
|
Production
Notes
|
Year
Released
|
| Life
On Mars |
Approximately
two seconds of Landcrab reported so far appearing in every episode of this
BBC cop series, set in the 1970s (the decade that taste and style forgot).
For the anoraks it was soon after the hero was catapulted back to 1973,
and featured a side-on view of the rear offside. In later episodes it appears
as part of a flashback. See the opening titles on You
Tube. Also the same car
seems to have been used in the background of the photo of a young "Sam"
with a police helmet on. Marvellous! |
2006-2007 |
| The
Rotters' Club |
A
cornucopia of Landcrabs appear in the three-part dramatisation of Jonathan
Coe's semi-autobiography about growing up in Longbridge in the mid-1970s.
In episiode 1 the main characters pass a 1300GT before getting into an Austin
1800 after a drink in the local pub. Episode 2 contains period footage of
the twin production lines and episode 3 has a white Austin 1800 arriving
back home. When originally broadcast (2/2/05) episode 2 was followed
by a half hour documentary on trade union activist "Red Robbo" on BBC4 which
also showed the ADO17 assembly line. |
2005 |
| The
Royal |
Nina
Hughes' MkI 1800 made numerous appearances in this spin-off from the
ITV series Heartbeat, set in the small Yorkshire town of Elsinby during
the 1960s. |
2003-2009 |
| Leonard |
Dark
Blue Wolseley Six driven by fellow member is pressed into ambulance mode
to rush injured son of obsessive father to hospital. 30 seconds. |
2002 |
| Crackerjack* |
MkI
1800 takes a role in this Australian comedy centred around a wisecracking
layabout who joins a bowls club in order to use a free parking space. When
the club run into financial trouble he is forced to play bowls, with hilarious
consequences. The highest-grossing Australian film of 2002 (source Wikipedia). |
2002 |
| Deals
On Wheels |
Donald
is trying to sell either his Wolseley 18/85 or Hillman Minx. The Minx goes,
freeing up garage space, so he doesn't have to sell the 18/85! |
Not
Known |
| Harry
Enfield |
The
late Ian Ingram's Wolseley appears in the "Young Man" sketch when
two randy pensioners molest and kidnap a young petrol pump attendant. See
the video on You
Tube |
1998 |
| Heartbeat |
Nina
Hughes' MkII 1800 appeared in various scenes including a car showroom, standing
in a farmyard and as a taxi. Unfortunately you have to watch all of the
episodes for odd brief appearance. Now her MkI KOW has been used by Heartbeat,
in the Christmas episode, (we believe towards the end), with artificial
snow everywhere. Actor Todd Carty is looking up at the winter sky and the
KOW is just behind him covered in 'snow' of course. |
1995-2009 |
| Dempsey
& Makepeace* |
1965
MkI Austin 1800 makes an appearance. |
1985-1986 |
| The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination Video |
Any colour you like so long as it's orange - MkI features in this video for synthpop outfit The Human League. Making of the video info here. See
the video on You
Tube |
1983 |
| Breakout |
Wolseley Six stars as the villains' getaway car in this CFTVF classic adventure. The Wolseley comes to a soggy end! Thanks to Club member Adrian Smith for the info. |
1983 |
| Quadrophenia |
MkII
Austin 1800 appears in rear view window as Chad played by Sting rides through
South London in 1964/65. Other chronological oversights by director Ken
Russell include a number of Ford Capris (not Classic Capris) and 1970's Datsuns
that can also be seen as Jimmy (the main character) rides his scooter
down a London street in the opening scene. |
1982 |
| Fox |
An
episode from the television series Fox depicts a futile attempt by police
to block a lorry's progress with white Morris 1800 MkI - registration OPV
607E. The lorry barges the 'barge' out of the way leaving the Morris with
very little visible damage save for the OSR door and the bootlid which are
'removed'. This episode was first broadcast 26th May 1980. |
1980 |
| McVicar |
When
John McVicar (played by Roger Daltry) escapes from prison he is picked
up from his temporary hideout in a Damask Red 1800 MkIIS.
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1980 |
| The
Plank* |
Harvest
Gold 2200 is this classic short film by comedy supremo Eric Sykes which
also starred Arthur Lowe, with appearances from Lionel Blair, Frankie Howerd,
Harry H Corbett, Diana Dors, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Cribbins, Charlie
Drake, Wilfred Hyde White, Frank Windsor, Reg Varney, Liza Goddard, Deryck
Guyler, Kate O'Mara and Joanna Lumley. Also a Damask Red 1800 (blink and
you'll miss it!) See it on You
Tube |
1979 |
| The
Big Sleep* |
Dark
coloured J Reg 18/85 features in a cameo role. |
1978 |
| King
Cinder |
Now
this might not be the most flattering thing to mention to Landcrab fans...this
BBC kid's drama starred Peter Duncan as a motorbike racer and he and his
dad get involved with an extortion racket going on in the town. Well the
local villain drives a Red Maxi and in an exciting chase at the end the
Maxi goes over a cliff. Well, actually it dosen't...its a "Maroon B"
MkI Landcrab instead (the boot flies open as it goes over)! A few weeks
later this subterfuge actually rated mention on Nationwide in the
Watchdog feature. Seems the Maxi was in decent nick while the 1800 was on
its last legs...wonder if the BBC still have the clip in their archive?!
(Thanks to Ian Pennick, North East Maxi Club regional rep) |
1978 |
| The
Professionals |
Big
perms and even biggers egos, cheesy action drama it might be, but this
1970s cult series is so amazingly non-PC you wonder how they got away
with it. Episode title unknown, but we have confirmation from James Mclernon
that a MkI Morris 1800 was reversed at high speed by Bodie into a yank
tank. Car possibly of 1967
vintage and colour thought to be light green.
Nick
O'Neill, Co Director of www.Autoshite.com
adds: " I think the 1800 you refer to in The Professionals maybe an eggshell
yellow one (as opposed to light green), which was in the episode Blind
Run, originally screened 02/12/1978. There is a great book, Shut
It! A Fan’s Guide to Cops on the Box by Martin Day & Keith Topping
(published by Virgin,1999). It goes over every episode of The Sweeney
& The Professionals in some detail, outlining all the cars spotted
in each one." Thanks for the update Nick.
|
1977-83 |
| The
New Avengers* |
Larger
starring role for a (possibly Damask Red) 2200 in episode 15 of the series. |
1976-77 |
| Confessions
of a Driving Instructor* |
An
1800 MkI collides with an 1100 during a chase scene.
|
1976 |
| The
Sweeney* |
Various
outings for several models of Landcrab in this hard-punching, all-swearing
classic cop drama starring John Thaw and Denis Waterman as the flying squad's
toughest, Jack Regan and George Carter. |
1975-78 |
| Take
Me High |
Last
gasp of Cliff Richard's illustrious movie career. Cliff plays a fast food
entrepreneur who scales new heights in culinary excellence by inventing...the
"brumburger"! Garnished with sizeable helpings of concrete flyovers,
flared trousers, crushed velvet suits, the Rotunda, the (then newly-built)
Bullring Centre and – probably the highlight of the film – a brace
of Police "Jam Sandwich" 2200s! |
1974 |
| Deadly
Strangers |
Hayley
Mills and Simon Ward keep fleeing the Police in a Maxi across the West Country.
In the cafe scene a black 1800 MkII sits beside the Maxi just to show the
models' differences! (Thanks to Ian Pennick, North East Maxi Club regional
rep) |
1974 |
| Whatever
Happened To The Likely Lads? |
In
an episode where Bob (Rodney Bewes) gets done for drink driving, his Viva
gets pulled up by a MkII 1800 Jam Sandwich, which could well have been a
genuine Durham Constabulary car as they had them at the time...and the outside
bits where shot on location in the North East. At the time Northumberland/Tynside
used Rootes cars! (Thanks to Ian Pennick, North East Maxi Club regional
rep) |
1973 |
| Dr.
Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo* |
Drive
by appearance by a Morris 1800 MkII in that well known classic Dr. Jekyll
y el Hombre Lobo (Dr Jekyll and the Wolfman)! |
1972 |
| The
Offence |
Sir
Sean Connery plays a tough Police detective in London prepared to bend the
rules to catch his man. Film features shots of Sean Connery driving a black
Morris 1800. |
1972 |
| Frenzy* |
Passing
cameo of a Wolseley 18/85 and London Bus. |
1972 |
| Trafic* |
Jacques
Tati as Monsiur Hulot causes mayhem on the way to Amsterdam in this French
comedy outing. A sectioned Austin 1800 MkII appears on a turntable during
the motor show scene, while a white MkII with black vinyl roof appears in
the background of other shots. |
1971 |
| Carry
On Camping |
Camp
humour and a host of double-entendres – plus sporadic appearances by
a Mk2 1800 masquerading as the local taxi...British cinema at its best?! |
1969 |
| If.... |
Grey
Austin 1800 MkI passes in background as Malcolm McDowell runs across a newly
prepared flower bed on the Promenade in Cheltenham in this cult Lindsay
Anderson masterpiece. |
1969 |
| Up
the Junction |
A
brand new grey Wolseley 18/85 features. A young Dennis Waterman took
the lead role in this gritty social drama. |
1968 |
| The
Champions* |
White
MkI Austin appears as street furniture in episode 15 of this show about
a trio of agents with special powers working to thwart the forces of evil
– funny how nothing's changed over the years! |
1968 |
| The
Avengers |
Various outings for Landcrabs as The Avengers battle the (often ludicrous) forces of nefarious foreign powers. Click here (32mb) and here (23mb) to view. Thanks to Spencer Hall for the clips. |
1964-69 |
