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The Famous Shelsley Walsh Climb 1933
Description
Full title reads: "Nr Worcester. The Famous Shelsey Walsh Climb. No car could even compete unless capable of climbing the 1-6 grade in less than a minute!"
Worcester, Worcestershire.
Various shots of sports cars speeding up hill climb course. Shots of woman driver, Miss Watson in MG...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 6499
- Sort Number:
- 33/079
- Time in/Out:
- 01:50:51:00 / 01:52:29:00
- Canister:
- 33/79
- Film ID:
- 725.32
- Issue Date:
- 02/10/1933
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Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb - September 1933.
00:45 – No.26 Raymond Mays in the supercharged “White Riley” special.
01:00 – No.54 Whitney Straight in his black 2.5-litre supercharged Maserati 8C.
01:12 – No.61 Earl Howe in a Bugatti.
"unidentified driver talking about his having broken a record. He shakes hands with a fellow driver" - Raymond Mays (wearing a beret) had just broken Hans Stuck's three year old record, but had then been intermediately beaten by Whitney Straight, who is the other driver in this clip.
Straight, a native New Yorker, was educated at Cambridge, was an RAF fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain - reaching the rank of Air Commodore - then became involved in the aviation industry as Chairman of BEA, then CEO of BOAC and then Deputy Chairman of Rolls Royce.