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Gordon Bennett Motor Race 1903
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No titles. Gordon Bennett Motor Race on 2/7/1903.
Location of events unknown.
Several shots of open cars racing round a right hand bend in the road course, with crowds watching on grassy banks.
M/S of car slowing down (in pits?). The driver takes off his goggles and talks...
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- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Silent
- Media URN:
- 81044
- Sort Number:
- UN 0001 C (Q)
- Time in/Out:
- 01:07:22:00 / 01:11:12:00
- Canister:
- UN 1 C (Q)
- Film ID:
- 1938.04
- Issue Date:
- 1903
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The Gordon Benett Trophy Race in Ireland on Thursday 2rd July 1903.
00:08 - a Winton Bullet.
00:20 - a Mercedes.
00:28 - a Mercedes.
00:38 - No.6 Fernand Gabriel's Mors.
00:44 - No.8 Baron Pierre De Caters' Mercedes.
00:55 – No.10 Maurice Farman’s Panhard.
01:03 – a Mercedes.
01:12 – No.1 S.F.Edge’s Napier, showing signs of the cooling problems that would ruin his race.
01:20 – No.2 René deKnyff’s Panhard.
01:23 - a Winton Bullet.
01:27 - No.6 Fernand Gabriel's Mors.
01:31 - No.8 Baron Pierre De Caters' Mercedes.
01:35 – No.10 Maurice Farman’s Panhard.
01:38 – “Pit stop” for No.2 René deKnyff’s Panhard.
02:04 - “Pit stop” for No.4 Camille Jenatzy’s Mercedes.
02:25 - a Mercedes.
02:32 - No.6 Fernand Gabriel's Mors.
02:36 - a Mercedes.
02:43 – a Panhard.
02:49 – No.1 S.F.Edge’s Napier.
02:56 – a Panhard.
03:03 - a Mercedes.
03:10 - a Winton Bullet.
03:19 – a Winton Bullet, followed by a Mercedes.
03:25 - No.6 Fernand Gabriel's Mors at the Bridge Grandstand over the Athy-Kilcullen Road.
03:33 – a Mercedes at the Bridge Grandstand.
The result was 1st - Camile Jenatzy (Mercedes), 2nd - René deKnyff (Panhard), 3rd- Maurice Farman (Panhard).