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Ray White · Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6312 Location: Derby

Silent film. (Taken from the MMM Register site (hope that is O.K.?)

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-colmore-car-trial-1934-online?fbclid=IwAR2n7-RxKnoit0RBeC33rXNA8pxIPaJOpzkOSuQNkQIdDdgucd24FKXhu_w

mikeC · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:08 am Post subject:

Fabulous bit of film; there's another short clip on You Tube of the same event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNSk0CmEeuA
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

Great find!

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peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

Excellent! Thanks for posting.

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mikeC · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 11:42 am Post subject:

For those interested in such things, I have managed to identify the location featured in the BFI film. Chalford is located just to the east of Stroud in Gloucestershire. The first shots of the MGs turning right off a major road is at mr 898024; they're turning off what is now the A419, having just crossed the railway bridge. The turning is visible on Google Street View, but the track itself is presumably a private road which Google didn't investigate further. The trial section itself climbs southwards out of Golden Valley towards Hyde Farm in Minchinhampton.
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old iron · Joined: 22 Mar 2016 Posts: 185

Superb!

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4756 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
The other side of Minchinhampton Common there is a feature known as the Nailsworth Ladder which a few years ago re-opened it's annual hill climb trial.
I haven't found any old film of it, but a Google video search for it comes up with a few videos of the more recent (last 10yrs or so) events.

If you look at the images section of G search there are quite a few old B/W images of the earlier events.
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mikeC · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 2:11 pm Post subject:

Five minutes of Nailsworth Ladder in 1936:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MNeKnRCZig
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