Motor Racing 1920-1929

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Motor racing. Location of events unknown.

Automobiles; racing. Various shots of cars in road race; driving on curving road w/ woods alongside. 1920s. Some of the cars are race cars but there are also sporty non-race cars and even some big enclosed boxy-looking vehicles. Each car has driver...

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Cataloguer:
Cheri
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
76751
Sort Number:
ON 347 E
Time in/Out:
01:48:16:00 / 01:52:27:00
Canister:
ON 347 E
Film ID:
2426.14
Issue Date:
1920 - 1929

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  • This is at Brooklands, Surrey. These are not racing cars, this is some kind of club event.

    Car 52 is a Bugatti (horseshoe radiator), car 33 is an Amilcar. Lots of Salmson cars: 41, 34, 29.

    00:14 "cars drive down narrow ramp which slopes down to wider track" - cars descending the Test Hill at Brooklands to the Start/Finish Straight below.

    Car 66 is a big Bugatti tourer.

    "Cars coming up hill through tunnel w/ signs on tunnel advertising Henlys" - this is an access tunnel under the banking.

    "shot of many cars lined up at starting line" - the Start line, under the footbridge.

    03:03 - cars descending the Test Hill.

    roycousins 21st Dec 2012

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