Boy Racing Motorist AKA Boy Racing Driver 1955

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Elmswell, Suffolk.

L/S of a miniature racing car being wheeled out of a garage. It is the "baby of all midget cars" and is called: "Icanopit" apparently. The car is wheeled towards a pile of spare parts. The man who wheeled it out of the garage is seen making repairs to the car.

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1938
Sort Number:
CP 036
Time in/Out:
01:46:55:00 / 01:49:10:00
Canister:
CP 036
Film ID:
33.19
Issue Date:
05/09/1955

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