Pathe Newsreels

[Ian Grace]

The Pathe News archive is an endless fount of nostalgia. Here are some examples.

Super film on Morris engines production:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81726

Morris Films department showing two Oxford-registered SV Minors ascending a hill in the Lake District and great shots of the 100 mph Minor at speed at Brooklands:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=78612

BMC film detailing the history of Morris Motors and including some great MG and racing sequences, and including an M Type on a trial in driving snow:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=81592

Great clips from Shelsley:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=5938

BNMC Rally at Woburn Abbey 1958 including a covetable Sports Cowley:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=201

1961 auction at Beaulieu - a Bentley for GBP 350 anyone?

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=42453

Some wonderful Austin 7 fun down under.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=69436

And 'restoring' an eleven pound one in England:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=766

And a different sort of restoration:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=11333

The first Anglo-American Rally, 1954, including some wonderful Prescott footage, and the winning captain T. W. Carson...:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=82910

One of personal interest to me - the marriage of Alec Hambro to 'Baba' Beaton - Cecil Beaton's sister. Alec was one of the six children of Captain Angus Hambro and learned to drive on the Bed-Pan. He was killed in Africa in 1943:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=5474

Finally the man himself:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=20914