We FOUND The Lost Cars Of the Longbridge Tunnels! PROTOTYPES And The GREATEST BRITISH BARNFIND!

Correction: The understanding is that the Longbridge Plant Fire Service attended the fire first but were unable to bring the fire under control & then they called the West Midlands Fire Service 40 minutes later.

WOW, that was fascinating ! I owned a 1970 Austin 3Litre - VOT 868H, when I was 21. I loved them from the day they were launched, and vowed to own one . In reality, I was too young to really appreciate it, but it was a beautiful 'Carriage' and I loved every second of owning it. The Princess version looked lovely, but I'm wondering how much more luxurious it could have been from the Austin version. That was full of Burr Walnut, leather, really thick carpets and West of England headlining - it was a Luxury car in its own right. Anyway, thanks for stirring some lovely memories for me from 48 years ago ! Thanks - take care 🙂

As always another brilliantly researched & well put together video. The fact the guy who raised the alarm was disciplined for using another department's phone shows the poor standard of management at Longbridge at the time. It goes a long way into explaining why relations between the factory floor workers & management were so poor & troubled. Their must be more companies fail due to a few bad managers than any other reason. Ive seen it happen. Staff get demoralised, hence quality drops. Good workers leave to go & work for the competition. Then bang all of a sudden a company that used to be top notch goes to the wall

Well done Tom, that was a great video. Thanks for all your hard work putting this together 👍

So glad I found ya channel as I’m learning new things on every upload,thanks for another superb video ,cheers Tom 👍💪😉

I remember the fire vividly, I used to live in Bombers Field opposite the Leyland plant. The smoke was intense! Bombers Field was part of Tinmeadow Crescent, to which was part of where the air field was. There was also a MK1 Wolseley Mini in the tunnel, I was lucky enough to go inside the tunnels when I worked there in 1990

An Austin apprentice friend , who was at Bromsgrove College with me, showed me around some of the tunnels on a saturday morning . There was no security or identification checks. That was around 1966.

Another very interesting video Tom thanks greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Fascinating stuff Tom. Keep ‘em coming!

I just subscribed, Tom. Normally I don't follow many youtubers, but your information is properly researched and always fascinating. Cheers!

Great video Tom cheers I loved it

thanks tom that was mint as always

Mate really great video loved it

Nice! Let's see if this video is as good as the others! Well done!

Great channel , deserves way more subscribers

Enjoying your films, are you able to do one covering the ERA mini turbo and Lamm cabrios?

Well done.

Great vids as always , bet those Tunnels have some stuff in Them , I remember the TV news reporting on the BL strikes back then , think there was a bit where Workers were sleeping in make -shift Bedrooms on the Production line ! ..Luv yer Vids T//D .

It would be cool if somebody could refabricate one of those 3 litre Princesses to have for posterity. Great work on this channel, I love reading up on ARO online and this is as invaluable as that website. 👍🏼

What a waste. Whenever I hear specific dates in the late 1970s, I try to remember where I was and what I was doing at the time. As the years roll by, the memories get fewer. Thank you for sharing this interesting story. Subscribed. Peace 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿