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

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t5sGDtlk2HY

47p2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 2009 Location: Glasgow

Great clip Peter, thanks for that Very Happy

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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

great old film, do you know anything about the people in it?

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

Thanks for your replies guys. This and the Berlin footage were retrieved from a skip so my only knowledge derives from the film content. In the 30s motoring film I think the footage relates either to two excursions or one excursion to two venues. Venue 1 is Woodhall Spa and venue 2, I guess, Skegness beach. There is a close-up of a car windscreen label in the film that I editted out but reads:

GRIMSBY BRANCH
U.K.C.T.A. OUTING
CINEMA CAR
To WOODHALL SPA, June 12th 1937

I suspect that UKCTA is the U.K. Commercial Travellers Association, which might explain how there are so many cars involved at a time when very people owned a car.

Peter

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

Interesting stuff, might be worth adding that bit of info to the blurb with the film on YT, sure people would be interested to read that. Amazing what goes into skips isn't it!!!!??!?!??!? Smile

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

Done.

PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

I was waiting to see the AA turn up in/on one of their creat combinations!

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

Was that on account of the slightly swerving progress of a certain small Ford? Very Happy

Some nice shots here though..
http://www.jamd.com/search?assettype=g&assetid=3164518&text=aa+patrolman

Peter

PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

I was thinking more of the Morris?? that we never saw move off. Love your AA pictures, cant see today's patrolman wielding a shovel in the snow!!
PAUL

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

Hi Paul,

Me-thinks it was an Austin not a Morris. Well Rolling Eyes

what do you expect from Austin? Laughing

Peter

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

Hi
I just thought it was the cameraman's car.

Roverron · Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 134 Location: Yorkshire

Everybody says the roads were quieter then, it didn't look like it in this clip. The man with the pipe and the Austin Cambridge stashing two bottles of beer is great Very Happy

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

Yes, there was quite a lot going on. I liked the man trying to cross the road near the begining and the sequence of cars pulling out from the side as buses pass is redolent of some far eastern cities where rules are scarce. Shocked

Does anyone recognise the section of road that resembles an underpass with footbridge over it?

Peter