Timeslotted for 5/11?
Who recognises the Austin Atlantic? It seems strange, people on the beach in formal clothes and footwear.
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Me, at Aberfoyle.
But they’re all so elderly, so am I, but I don’t look a bit like that. 
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Not just that but scores of others, I’m racking my brain cell as to the two Vauxhalls @ ~2:50 - Cresta? Velox?. Dad had an Anglia 105, reg. no 811AYN, it caught fire one night on the A3 just north of the Devil’s Punchbowl… Coppers on point duty ~7:00, my Dad used to get that job outside the Alfred gate at the dockyard in Pompey
I swear there’s something wrong the mirror in the bathroom. Every morning I look at it there’s this old git looking back at me. 
I had a quick scan through the first half again this morning and can add:
Rover P4 (90/95/100)
Morris Minors in various guises
Austin Cambridge (two generations of)
Jag Mk9
Humber Super Snipe
Humber Hawk
Triumph Herald
Mk1 Landrovser
Rover 12 or 14
Merc 190?
Mini
Renault Dauphine
Hillman Minx (two generations of)
Singer Vogue
Metropolitan
Thames 15cwt
Vauxhalls Crest, VX490
Wolesley 16?
Hilman Husky
Austin A40 Somerset
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Blimey Ro that list made me feel young.
MK2 Zodiac Woleseley 6110 Jag MK1/2 is around where my conscious memory starts.
Kids growing up in the '50s had a slightly skewed vehicle demographic and were treated to a much older section of cars than might otherwise have been the case. This was largely because a lot of vehicles that were stored on bricks during the war because of fuel rationing had a new lease of life until the Ten-Year Test (MOT) came in and cleaned up the act in about '59 / '60 IIRC. Our family car was a 1934 Austin Seven and my uncle ran a 1924 Bentley. There were still a lot of pre-war buses on the roads, though lorries were largely post-war. It all began to change quickly in the '60s.
Just adding a few:
Ford Consul
Vauxhall Victor
Austin A30/ 35
Ford Popular/ Prefect/ Anglia (I get confused)
Mini van
Hillman Husky
Any clues on the (diesel) train ~5:57 and yellow lorry ~7:10?
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I can’t help with the train, but I reckon the truck could be a Thornycroft.
Thanks! Yes, that one’s a bit of a mystery. It’s French and No.96 on my register. It appears to be quite elderly and do wonder if it had become a shunter at Orly by that time.
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The yellow lorry is a Leyland 4-wheeler - probably a Comet then. That was the post-war cab that preceded the one with the wide grille.
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I think it’s the Derby lightweight 150 HP British Leyland engined DMU. File:Derby Lightweight Single Unit 79900.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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The yellow four-wheeler was likely to have the 0.300 engine at 75 bhp, normal on the Comet. In 1961, the year the film was made, that engine was upped to 0.350 at 90 bhp. The eight-wheelers and artics had the 0.600 engine at 125 bhp, which that year was upped to 0.680 at 150 bhp.
Thank you, you’ve got a good eye and memory. Didn’t know they were running DMUs in Scottish-type Scotland back then (then again there’s a lot of things I don’t know)
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Pleasure, I thought you’d know of it.
