Traction Engine Race (1953)

Appleford, Berkshire. Various shots of people preparing traction engines for a race. Fuel and water are loaded aboard. Number 10 is owned by Dr Giles Romanes. A man in old-fashioned costume looks at one of the machines. Several shots of the traction engines starting off and making their way across a field. A large crowd watches. Arthur Napper, Berkshire farmer who started the racing idea 3 years before, is seen on engine ’Old Timer’. Cutting and programme on file. FILM ID:1337.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from