Round Britain Rally

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2583

Date Released

3 Dec 1978

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Queen Visits the Tower of London
2. 2Round Britain Rally
3. 3Rugby - England V New Zealand

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: RAC Round Britain Rally. DESCRIPTION: The RAC Round Britain Rally is one of the roughest and toughest in the world. The winner of this year’s Rally, which ended at the NEC in Birmingham, was Hannu Mikkola of Finland. SHOTLIST: GV interior car looking straight ahead. GV interior car out of side window. Car No 12 (Brooks and Tucker) past camera. MS Car No 1 (Waldegaard & Thorszelius) ditto. LS car No 23 (Taylor & Short) past. GV crowd. MS No 19 (Dawson & Harriman in a Datsun Violet) past. Various cars past. Forest section. GV crowd. Various other cars past. GV Birmingham crowds awaiting winner. MS crowd. MS No 4 comes into finish. MS press. MS Hannu Mikkola and co-driver Arne Hertz of Finland in a Ford shake champagne.

Keywords

Motor racing

Locations

Birmingham

Card file number

78/184

Credits:

Camera

Denis White

Commentator

Leonard Martin

Length of story (in feet)

167

Story extras:

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