British pathe

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Mon 13 Mar 2006 13:08
British pathe - Dipstick
Apologies for what is a repeat posting I know - but for the benefit of new members or those who may have forgotten, the British Pathe website is a truly wonderful resource containing thousands of archive films.

I just put "transport" into the database, returning about 800 hits, and have watched a film about training driving instructors in the fifties (split screen Morris Minors everywhere), one about testing how far you can tilt a London Bus before it falls over (28 degrees) and a superb trenching machine used to lay gas pipes (handy for the housewife). They tested for leaks with radioactivity in their aertex shirts.

All free at low but quite watchable resolution. No connection other than I like it very much.

www.britishpathe.com/

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Mon 13 Mar 2006 13:48
British pathe - Stuartli
I once filmed Stirling Moss and other famous drivers at Aintree in the late 1950s or early 1960s using 16mm Pathe film.

Unfortunately my late mother, not realising its value, dropped it in the rubbish bin not long after I got married...:-(


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Mon 13 Mar 2006 14:03
British pathe - Dipstick
Do policemen still say "Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss?"

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Mon 13 Mar 2006 14:07
British pathe - Chicken Madras
Apparently a guard at Buckingham Palace asked the same question of the great man when he was there to receive his gong and he replied "No, Sir Stirling Moss actually".

Also, the traffic cop who pulled Ayrton Senna on the M25 asked him whether if he thought he was Nigel Mansell. Only after some autographs did they believe who he was. That could have been nasty "So, we've got a comedian here have we...?"

And... apparently either the same or a different set of officers (I think Senna was a serial offender!) sent Mansell a video of their chase with a note saying "At lease we caught him" or some such.
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