This film is from the C.H. Wood collection and follows a group of motor cross riders as they compete in Ilkley Grand National. There is footage of the riders falling off their bikes, the spectators watching and helping some of the riders as well as shots of the surrounding landscape. Title-Hub Deep. Title-An excerpt from the Castrol presentation `Six of the Best'. The film opens on a snow covered moor where a man rides a motor bike along the rough track, the voiceover says that this is...

This film is from the C.H. Wood collection and follows a group of motor cross riders as they compete in Ilkley Grand National. There is footage of the riders falling off their bikes, the spectators watching and helping some of the riders as well as shots of the surrounding landscape. Title-Hub Deep. Title-An excerpt from the Castrol presentation `Six of the Best'. The film opens on a snow covered moor where a man rides a motor bike along the rough track, the voiceover says that this is the Ilkley Grand National. Riders go up hills, through a swollen river, and several of the men fall off their bikes as they try to come out of the water onto the bank. Some men get stuck and have to be helped by the spectators. The voiceover says that the competition takes time and observation into consideration, and this is accompanied by shots of a rider making his way unsteadily along a stream and onto a bank. There is another shot taken from above and looking down onto a rider going across a waterlogged field and then his bike cutting out. In one section, Arthur Lambkin, who eventually won the competition, got stuck in the stream and had trouble getting out. Throughout the film the voiceover makes witty remarks about the riders and the trouble that they get into. He mentions R. Chadwick several times as he keeps on falling into the mud. There is a long sequence of shots where many of the riders are stuck in the mud and can't move; many of them end up rolling in the mud or having to be helped out by spectators. Many of the riders' bikes are blowing smoke as they struggle through the mud and water. The following section has more footage of the riders going through the mud and one rider's bike stops dead and he falls over the handle bars. There are more shots of the riders and the bikes getting stuck. One of the judges is standing at the edge of the water and gets stuck; he starts to sink and has to be dragged out. This is followed by a motorbike being driven very near to a judge who is seated along the track; he falls over backwards. Then there is a shot of a rider flying through the air from off screen and then a cut to his bike that got stuck in a hole and sent him flying. There is a brief shot of one of the riders who smiles at the camera and has a mud covered face. There is another brief shot of a man walking across the top of a hill carrying bike parts; the voiceover says that for some the trial is too much. Title-An excerpt from the Castrol Presentation `Six of the Best' Title-A Castrol film presentation produced by C.H. Wood (Bradford) Ltd.