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
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