GOLDEN HORSES

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 18th Year

Issue

Issue No.

2

Date Released

Oct 1964

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1THE FRUITS OF STOKE ORCHARD
2. 2EGG MAN
3. 3GOLDEN HORSES
4. 4A CAR IS BORN

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: old steam vehicles.
NCB Commentary - Coal for golden horses.
Kindling
and coal for the old steam horse.
"Defiant". Born 1913 - still puffing strong.
At Shottesbrooke Park, in Berkshire, on a warm summer Saturday, coal for Dreadnought, Prince of Wales, Victory, King George - coal to, "make steam".
This is the second day of the great steam fair, silver jubilee celebration of the Friendship Cicle of Showland Fans.
And the fans are here. And so are the cameras.
Here are the famous Golden Gallopers - "rode by all with joy" - and here are steam yachts to left forty stomachs at once.
Here are swings and glitter crowds, and the smells of coal and hot cylinder oil on the sunlight, that bring back a golden age of steam.

Keywords

Vehicles; History and archaeology

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963

Credits:

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit