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Record Speed In 200 Mile Lt Car Race 1924
Description
Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey.
Title: "Record Speed in 200 Miles Light Car Race. The fastest and longest event ever decided in the Country".
Panning shot along a row of racing cars at the start of a race. M/S, looking through some sort of gate, of the row of cars, the drivers are getting...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Amelia
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Silent
- Media URN:
- 24639
- Sort Number:
- G 1123
- Time in/Out:
- 01:46:34:00 / 01:47:52:00
- Canister:
- G 1123
- Film ID:
- 356.27
- Issue Date:
- 29/09/1924
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The Junior Car Club 200-Mile Race on 20th September 1924.
Won by No.12 Kenelm Lee Guinness in a Darracq, with his team mates No.15 George Duller second and No.14 Henry Segrave third.
00:30 - No.10 Leon Cushman's Bugatti T22 and No.5 J.Hall's Aston Martin.
00:44 - No.2 Maurice Harvey's Alvis 12/50 is passed by team mate No.3 Frank Halford's Alvis 12/50.
00:53 - No.37 G. Norris's Morgan-Blackburne is overtaken by No.28 George Newman's Horstman 12/30.
01:03 - the three Darracqs finish together.
01:12 - the winner, K.L.Guinness, behind the wheel of his Darracq.