Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 3328 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
DOUBLE TWELVE | 1930-1931 | 1930-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 21 mins 27 secs Subject: Sport |
Summary This film covers two racing events at the Double Twelve, the legendary Brooklands Motor Car Racetrack in Weybridge, Surrey. Victoria Worsley competed in fourteen events at Brooklands between 1928 and 1932 with varying degrees of success. In 1930 she competed in an MG with with driving partner Derek Foster, and in 1931 drove an Ulster Austin with driving partner Lathan-Boote finishing seventh overall. |
Description
This film covers two racing events at the Double Twelve, the legendary Brooklands Motor Car Racetrack in Weybridge, Surrey. Victoria Worsley competed in fourteen events at Brooklands between 1928 and 1932 with varying degrees of success. In 1930 she competed in an MG with with driving partner Derek Foster, and in 1931 drove an Ulster Austin with driving partner Lathan-Boote finishing seventh overall.
Title-The Double 12 1931 Racing and Pit Work.
Shot of the race track from track side....
This film covers two racing events at the Double Twelve, the legendary Brooklands Motor Car Racetrack in Weybridge, Surrey. Victoria Worsley competed in fourteen events at Brooklands between 1928 and 1932 with varying degrees of success. In 1930 she competed in an MG with with driving partner Derek Foster, and in 1931 drove an Ulster Austin with driving partner Lathan-Boote finishing seventh overall.
Title-The Double 12 1931 Racing and Pit Work.
Shot of the race track from track side. Men and women sit around on the grass.
A car, number 54, is being made ready; the drivers fill the car with petrol, water and oil, jump back into the car and drive off. One of the drivers is Victoria Worsley.
Another car pulls in to refuel, this time a different model. At another pit stop, the drivers check the lubrication of wheels.
An image of a race programme reads `Twelve hour race organised by the Junior Car Club Friday/Saturday 9th and 10th May, 1930'
Title-Cars assembling before the start.
Drivers are wandering around and checking their cars.
Title - 8am the maroon goes off. The competitors leap into their cars and the Double 12 of 1930 is begun.
Drivers jump into their cars and drive off around the track. They swiftly navigate a curved bank in the track. Foster and Worsley drive car number 73.
There are certain places in the film which are taken in slow motion. Two of the competitors are at the bottom of the banking, and they slowly push their damaged car along.
Title - Changing over of drivers Victoria comes in at 11am and Derek Foster takes over.
Foster and Worsley refuel, and Foster takes the wheel.
Clocking from a stopwatch times the race.
Title-In the pit.
Title-Derek comes in with a rush and Victoria takes over.
There is a shot of a stop watch.
Title - 2mins 25 sec that's 64.95mph- Good Work! And so ended a memorable race in the following order 1 Bentley, 2 Bentley, 3 Riley, 4 Aston Martin. Team Prize Morris-Midgets.
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