1948 Hagley Winter Trial
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Simon Woodall posted this video clip on You Tube and has also contributed most of the following, to which I've added a few comments of my own:
[0:05] The start is from the Falcon Hotel in Bridgnorth, which still exists.
[0:20] The main excitement of this piece is that we see the famous Ford V8 Special, FPD673, of Austen May and ...
[0:27] The first of two close ups of the great man himself.
[0:31] The chap wandering around the start is Geoff Taylor, after whom HDLCC’s sporting trial is now named.
[1:02] The first of a number of shots of Victor Woodall's Wolseley Ford special, which also features on the Kineton page of this website. (AKB)
[1:24] Ignore the Jeep, that’s just the photographer who had a Hitchcockian desire to always appear in his own films.
[1:39 onwards] Notice the use of a simple grass slope, with score markers.
[2:26] That Jeep again!
[4:40] The bloke in the long bobble hat at the top of the acceleration test is, I think, Ken Rawlings.
[6:24] “Wheel” is just off the Wolverhampton to Bridgnorth road.
[6:45] The second of the two close ups of Austen May.
[6:56] HAB 245 - One of the very early Dellow prototypes, I think. (AKB)
[6:57] Spot the Series 1 Land-Rover, bearing in mind that this is 1948 – so that’s a brand new car!