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Perpetual Motion

1992

2 seasons

12 episodes

Documentary

A series about vehicles which defied extinction, and the people who designed them, bought them, and love them today.

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Cast

Jim Broadbent

Warren Clarke

Ep 1
1.The Morris Minor
02-01-1992
"My gracious, how spacious," went the 50s publicity for the car which became Britain's first to sell a million. Though it ceased production in 1971,100,000 Morris Minors are still...
Ep 2
2.The Blackpool Tram
09-01-1992
One time hi-tech transport, trams are being rediscovered as a solution to traffic and pollution in Blackpool.
Ep 3
3.The Avro Shackleton
16-01-1992
RAF crews have been flying Shackletons for 40 years in the front line of the Cold War. Filmed during the last months of its long service, crew members reflect on the departure of a...
Ep 4
4.The Routemaster Bus
23-01-1992
Warren Clarke narrates a look at London's world-famous red Routemaster buses which, although designed in the 1950s for a lifespan of just 17 years, was in use into the next century...
Ep 5
5.The Enfield Bullet
30-01-1992
British motorcycles all-but died out in the 1970s, but one is still being made in the Indian city of Madras - the Enfield Bullet.
Ep 6
6.The FX4 London Taxi
06-02-1992
The series investigating great machines that refuse to die continues with a look at the FX4 London Taxi, which for over 30 years enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the streets of the ca...

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