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"Miss England Ii" Launched 1930
Description
Full title reads: "Windermere. 'Miss England II' is launched by Lord Wakefield, and Sir Henry Segrave tries out �25,000 'aristocrat of all motor boats', built to wrest record from America."
Windermere, Lake District, Cumbria.
Lord Wakefield makes a speech expressing his...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 6261
- Sort Number:
- 30/003
- Time in/Out:
- 01:51:43:00 / 01:54:16:00
- Canister:
- 30/3 aka G 1718
- Film ID:
- 711.28
- Issue Date:
- 10/06/1930
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