Guards Drive To Hastings AKA Old Crocks… 1955

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M/S of a mid 1950s contemporary Mercedes with a vintage car ("an old crock") coming out of a garage behind it. According to the narrator this is going to be a revolutionary experiment - using the motor car for troop transport. Presumably this is a re-enactment of the first transport of troops by car...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
15695
Sort Number:
CP 019
Time in/Out:
01:30:30:00 / 01:32:45:00
Canister:
CP 019
Film ID:
29.13
Issue Date:
09/05/1955

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0:010:020:030:04

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  • "M/S of a mid 1950s contemporary Mercedes" - it's a Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing, (Reg. No. PLB 23, which in fact was occasionally driven in the '50s by Stirling Moss).

    "A guardsman jumps out of one of the cars" - the vehicle is a 1904 Star, (Reg. No. AF 3870).

    "A vintage London bus is seen" - it's an AEC B-type, Reg. No. LA 9918. (This vehicle has been preserved, and is on show at the London Transport Museum).

    The car seen at 00:11, (Reg, No. D 1590), is a 1904 Panhard-Levassor Tonneau.

    jamied 13th Oct 2012
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