Sports Car Show & Graham Hill 1970

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London.

Various shots around some of the exhibits at the specialist sports car show at Horticultural Hall in London. We see the MG No 1, beach buggy, etc. People looking on and getting into some of the cars. Graham Hill is leaning over a boy seated in one of the cars. Graham Hill being wheeled...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
sound
Media URN:
91734
Sort Number:
UN 4492 B
Time in/Out:
01:10:30:00 / 01:12:23:00
Canister:
UN 4492 B
Film ID:
3328.04
Issue Date:
1970

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  • The event shown here is the "Specialist Sports Car Show".

    The car seen directly after the MG is the Royale F100.

    Then at 00:27, (before the appearance of the beach buggy), we see a lady playing in a miniature car - it's TV personality Katie Boyle.

    At 00:38, after the beach buggy, we see a sports car with the registration number "XPA 8". It's a Piper GTT P2.

    Following that, at 00:43, we see a Lotus Europa.

    jamied 5th Mar 2012
  • Further to my earlier comment, the car Katie Boyle is sitting in at 00:27 is, according to the attached press photo, a "Barnard". (Ignore their "date of photography" being "2011", it's clearly from this event in 1970......

    http://mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk/v
    iew/19456159/elib_asscmmglpict0000
    05000676_jpg

    By the way Katie Boyle has one of the most fantastic birth names ever - it is apparently "Caterina Irene Elena Maria Imperiali di Francavilla"! Beat that!!

    jamied 14th May 2012

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