British Car's Great Feat! AKA Mg Record… 1959

Star Item

Description

Title reads: "British Car's Great Feats!"

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, United States of America (USA).

MG record car runs. Various shots aerodynamic racing car being prepared by mechanics for land speed record attempt at Salt Flats. C/U engine of car. Panning shot American racing driver...

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50742
Sort Number:
59/082
Time in/Out:
01:46:17:00 / 01:47:20:00
Canister:
59/82
Film ID:
1595.31
Issue Date:
12/10/1959

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

To post a comment, please Register or to add a comment
Terrorism is nothing new. The Pathe archive has a vast collection of material related to terrorist attacks dating back to 1919 right through to the 2005 London bombings.
911
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
Churchill
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
Franz Reichelt

Related Videos

Hide
British Cars Great Success

British Cars Great Success

British Cars win 6 of the first 8 places in Le Mans race - Flockhart & Sanderson first in Jaguar.

Selected Originals - British Cars Great Success

Selected Originals - British Cars Great Success

Material related to newsreel story "British Cars Great Success" - 56/62.

New York

New York

A British Car show in New York shows off great cars.

Look At Britain 1 ( AKA Looking At Britain )

Look At Britain 1 ( AKA Looking At Britain )

Travelogue showing Anglo American vintage car rally as it passes through Great Britain.

Secrets Of Nature - The Bittern

Secrets Of Nature - The Bittern

Educational film showing the Bittern on its nest, hatching eggs, attacking predators, feeding young etc.

Making The Most Of It Reel 2

Making The Most Of It Reel 2

Great documentary showing the testing of cars by long distance driving.

Anglo-American Vintage Car Rally

Anglo-American Vintage Car Rally

The Anglo-American Vintage Car Rally. Eight days - Edinburgh to Goodwood.

 

 

The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
Death Row
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
Buchenwald
Animals are often the forgotten army of World War I. They displayed unwavering courage even when exposed to extreme conditions. British Pathé pay tribute to these forgotten warriors.
WW1animals
The Duke of Edinburgh has many talents, but it is his unique way with words that often receives the most attention. 
LULU'S WEDDING
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
Battle
British Pathé filmed the 20th Century's biggest names, some of them before they even became famous. Click through and guess who these soon-to-be celebrities were when first captured by our cameras.
 Before_Famous
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.
Transport_Inventions
Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.
Himmler