Baby Austin Grows Up 1955

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Longbridge, Birmingham.

Fifty years old Austin Motors and 25 years old Veteran Car Club decide to celebrate their anniversaries together. SV. Entrance to enclosure veteran car driving in. GTV. Packed enclosure, veteran cars arriving. SCU. Harry Austin, brother of the late Lord Herbert Austin...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
30919
Sort Number:
55/056
Time in/Out:
01:50:49:00 / 01:52:03:00
Canister:
55/56
Film ID:
533.28
Issue Date:
14/07/1955

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