Titles read: "SPEED TRIAL".
Location of events unknown.
Various shots of the first meeting of the Vintage Sports Club since the war. Racing driver George Abercassis looks over his engine. C/U of the car engine. Several shots of participants preparing their cars for a race.
Well-known women drivers Dorothy Patten and Mrs Gerrard are seen in their cars. Also attending the race are John Bolster - C/U of the lettering on his car, 'Bloody Mary', Dennis Jenkinson and Anthony Heal.
Several shots of the cars racing around a racetrack, a countryside course and coming over the finishing line.
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Description
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Data
- Archive
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 29/07/1946
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 43491
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Film ID:
- 1313.09
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration
- 00:02:12:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:16:40:00 / 01:18:52:00
- Canister:
- NP 98
- Sort Number:
- NP 098
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Vitesse says
Most of this film shows the VSCC sprint at Elstree on April 22nd 1946, but the last few seconds are of a Bugatti Owners Club hillclimb at Prescott, either reused footage from 1938 or 1939 or practice pictures from the May 19th meeting: on the day it rained throughout.