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Nerve Skill AKA Nerve & Skill 1922
Description
Isle of Man.
Full titles read: "NERVE & SKILL! - J CHASSAGNE - in a Sunbeam - wins Car Tourist Trophy. He did 53 miles per hour for 5 1/2 hrs. over wet roads."
Racing motor cars are lined up at the starting grid. Car no 4 starts first. Several shots of cars slipping and sliding around...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Howard
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Silent
- Media URN:
- 23034
- Sort Number:
- G 0888
- Time in/Out:
- 01:03:02:00 / 01:04:03:00
- Canister:
- G 888
- Film ID:
- 272.04
- Issue Date:
- 26/06/1922
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The RAC Tourist Trophy on the Mountain Circuit, Isle of Man 1922.
Jean Chassagne won in a 3-litre Sunbeam TT.
The white No.6 car shown at the start is W.D. Hawkes 3-litre Bentley, one of three entered by the factory for this event (W.O. Bentley himself was one of the drivers).