MOTOR SHOW

Series

Series Name
Mining Review 7th Year

Issue

Issue No.
10
Date Released
Jun 1954
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1LEDSTONE LUCK
  2. 2MOTOR SHOW
  3. 3TAKING STOCK
  4. 4SADLERS WELSH

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 4
Summary
BFI synopsis: Bolsover motorcar sales show. Follows one miner, Godfrey Hall, and his wife as they inspect and test ride a car.
NCB Commentary - Bolsover Castle still stands high above the colliery valley.
In the local village hall are some unusual exhibits. The ambulance brigade trains here, so does the colliery band. Once it was a school but to-day it is a motor show.
The first that Godfrey Hall, a local miner, heard about the show was when the postman arrived with a batch of letters and a formal invitation. So the Halls weren’t surprised when they found that half the village had turned up to the opening of this motor show for miners.
Area General Manager Sheppard did the formal opening. With him was motor dealer Sir George Kenning, who comes of mining stock himself. The whole idea behind the show was this: miners spend a lot of time working with someone else’s machinery underground - why shouldn’t they enjoy a machine of their own in their leisure?
Godfrey Hall and his wife were certainly out shopping. It didn’t take them long to agree on the model they wanted a demonstration ride in.
With nearly half the motor car owners in this country coming from the £600 a year income group, this show is doing a service by bringing a choice of cars to the miner who can’t always get down to Olympia.
Researcher Comments
According to bfi records, this story was filmed between the 25th and 27th March 1954 with a budget of £125 19s 7d. Commentary recorded 10 May 1954.
Keywords
Mining; Motor vehicles; Exhibitions and shows
Locations
Derbyshire; England; Bolsover
Written sources
British Film Institute Databases   Used for Synopsis
Film User   Vol.8 No.95 September 1954, p436.
The National Archives COAL 32   /3 Scripts for Mining Review, 1949-1956
Credits:
Production Co.
Documentary Technicians Alliance
Camera
Donald Long
Camera
John Reid
Director
Langton Gould-Marks
Sponsor
National Coal Board

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