Safety Fast (1948)

c. 1948 Advertising film for M.G. cars. Produced in association with the Nuffield Organisation. Sports cars in West Palm Beach Florida. 38 American and English amateur racing car drivers zoom around a course. featured. Goldie Gardner on German autobahn at Dessau (sp?). International kilometre record broken. Abbingdon workshops. Men work on car engines. C/Us of workmen and car chassis. Production line. Car bodywork is polished. MG car club mentioned. Ian Appleyard the Olympic Skier leaves Abbingdon in a new MG - TD. Shot from inside the car with windscreen wiper working. C/U of Appleyard driving his car. Cars on a transporter. Export drive. Piccadilly and Trafalgar Square. Shots from inside an M.G. Lifeguards parade on horseback seen from inside the car. Houses of Parliament, Westminster Bridge, Big Ben. Open road. C/U of speedometer (car is going over 80 mph). Slogan of the M.G. is “Safety Fast“. Dover. Docks. Signs for Boulogne, Calais and Ostend ferries. C/U of f