You have to remember that in the 50's, Britain was recovering from an unprecedentedly ruinous total war.

Daimler and Lanchrster had the preselector gear box from the mid 1930's

The Berkeley was not designed by Berkeley, but by Lawrie Bond, an established aircraft and automotive designer and engineer. The Anzani engine was quickly replaced by the Excelsior 348cc twin, and then the 498cc Excelsior three. Ultimately, Berkeley fitted the Royal Enfield 700cc engine in a revised body, which provided more than enough power.

0:03 Hardly started, and already German Volkswagen 'Beetles' are seen on a production line against a graphic for 1950, as we hear 'Britain rebuilt its...'  A.I. rubbish!

True the Austin A 90 Atlantic did not sell as intended in the USA. But, as this video confirms, it was a really good motor.  My Family owned one  and it was the first car I drove at the age of 16 off road. There was nothing about it to dislike and much of it seemed well ahead of its time in the UK. Ours was fixed head with a curved central rear window which could wind down out of site.   It's 2.6 L engine, not 2.7 )  was fed by twin carbs and provided a really lively drive.  It turned heads where ever we parked it

The Austin A30 and the Ford 100E were good cars. They did what they were built for, an inexpensive chance to own a car. No frills but a real car with few real issues. How many of both cars were sold. My first car was an A30, built in 1955. I was the second owner and it cost me only £5.00. I drove it for two years and then passed it on to my brother.

A lot more research is needed here. So many flaws in the description and history. I was there when these vehicles were in production.

Wish the video didnt jump around showing irelevant models

You could have concerted the Vanguard to run on TVO so saving tax probably a a gallon of T V O shilling a gallon compared to 5 shilling a gallon for petrol

Did the Reliant with the rear raking window pre-date the Ford Anglia 105E or vice versa?

Our Vanguard 1949 had a top speed of 98 mph it pre-dated the standard.

The Jowett Javelin was an appalling car. My family had one from new for ten years. It broke down ALL the time, and not just the crankshaft, which did break once and we waited 4 months for a new one, ( Im in New Zealand). To reach a destination without something going wrong, was a real achievement. Never have I hated a car more. Some people are into pain and get together in clubs to beat each other, so Im told. I say they should just join the Jowett enthusiasts club for the ultimate experience.

Nonsense, those cars wete fine for their time.

Have you ever driven a three-wheeler with the wheel at the front? I have & they are not uncomfortable. In reality having just the one wheel in front reduces the road shock at the front by up to half. The Reliant uses a steel chassis as its structural member.  I remember one Saturday morning I was finding where a merchants shop was so I could get there in my lunch break. Some idiot in a Volvo ploughed round a bend & went down the side of my Mk1 Robin.  I was looking through the glass of the shop so heard him & turned round & watched him drive into my parked vehicle. The corner of my chassis tore the side of his vehicle away with minimal damage to my three-wheeler. About an hours work with glass tape & filler then a bit of rattle can paint to finish the repair off.  Regarding the Volvo, I will never know, the driver scarpered, drove away.  A criminal offence I believe, not that I cared. His Volvo looked to be a right off & mine with such minimal damage was cheaper to repair than my access if I reported it to my insurer.  You AI types need to learn that unless you have lived with a vehicle, driven many miles in them & have the knowledge of where they are good & where they are bad. Shut up & stop repeating other AI lies.

Jowett and their Javelin are the real losers here because it was a genuinely superb car let down by a crankshaft that failed after 90,000 miles! The crankshaft was redesigned and the failures stopped but alas too late to save the Company!

That's an amercan  opinion I grew up in the 50's I rember those cars  they didn't reach the gross size of American cars but  our cars were NOT petrol guzzelers

The Corvette's fibreglass body (sorry, you're American, I mean fiberglass) was obviously blatantly copied from Reliant.

Reliant Regal Mark Eye? There is a shibboleth to sort human from A.I. narration. More than 3,000 years ago there were serious consequences.

And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. Opinions are divided as to numbers. Was it 42,000 or 2,040?

— Judges 12:5–6[12]

One has no clue what they're looking at😊

Reliant Regal Mark ONE