Motor Show in Earls Court (1962) | British Pathé

you prophets are saying that this Motor Show at Earls Court is the last one with Britain outside the common market already the automobile industry in this country accepts the challenge of selling in the continental countries new models like the Cortina from the Ford stable will catch the eye of hundreds of buyers visiting the show from across the channel the British Motor Corporation ranges over the entire field of moving meeting almost every need and every purse if the Morris 1100 on the stand here wear a frock you would say it leaves nothing to the imagination everything that makes the wheels go round is on you looking at that exciting power unit of the Mini Cooper our guests angel' Andy darlin combination is engine and chassis of economy and performance the name Riley has carried weight for more than a generation on the stand here it was carrying two girls in the window smallest car made by Riley the elf as an 850cc engine and front-wheel drive obviously a car to take the female eye hillman super Minx's and iphone standing up to the competition with the three lovelies trying it out for comfort from the 1600 CC engine to the back axle the super Ming spells luxury travel automatic transmission is available and here's something to appeal to every car owner it has no greasing points at all about time we arrived at that new just before the show is the Triumph Spitfire aiming to be faster and altogether more luxurious than any sports car of the same price twin carburetors of the Spitfires hotted up version of the herald engine step on it and you're up in the 90s in another price range the three to four thousand pound class the Jensen with that fugitive from the Whitehall Brian Rick's quite interested the engine a 6 liter v8 the Jensen just the job to the common sir who's not too hard up will loiter at 10 miles an hour or hit 130 depending on how far you put your foot down Oh Rovers aren't showing that gas turbine car all the motoring world's waiting for but in the conventional field there are three liter models and others of their range attractive big following however many people get to the Motor Show millions who'd like to a Coghill so Cathy news lavishly covers it in Technicolor and brings it to you in this theater the Cooper has mine stylish enough to appeal to the Continental markets plus the performance to which those root national and Auto bounds afford scope for a cello obviously something in the city the Ford Zephyr looks just the ticket what a pity it's for the police so the problem of how to carry a big dog without letting him push you through the windscreen admit him by the backdoor into a large cage an enemy has an impulse to leap onto the front seats at a critical moment well he caught you Jaguars a magic name on both sides of the Atlantic Lord Montague must have found the e-type quite a contrast to those vintage cars he collects at dearly this car industry is one of Britain's big dollar earners perhaps in the next few years it will expand and put us really on the map of Europe certainly this model has been an outstanding success since its erupting on the sports car world less than two years ago dolled up for us caught the famous 3.8 six-cylinder engine much smaller but very much in a high-performance class the Lotus Elan built on the foundation of racing success and with refinements every ullevål appreciate nowadays the sports car field offers so much the girlfriend looks like becoming choosy somebody's fascinated by those headlamps these days everybody has motoring jargon on the tip of his tongue salesmen can't afford to bluff in any way bluff isn't core for the Lotus Elan has twin to choke operators and of course just breaks the mg 1100 a winner in its class if ever there was one as for the Continental Bentley where's the mukhlis with 9,000 pounds to spare who could possibly resist it at mando Roz who knows a quality car when he sees one was full of admiration it's bewilderness multitude of fine cars more than holding their own in the world's most competitive industry manufacturers and our concentrating their gaze on the lands across the channel where no probability great new markets the common market await those who can deliver the right goods at the right price if this year's Motor Show is any guide the British car industry will rise to the opportunity you

Channel: British Pathé

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Length: 6min 21sec (381 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 13 2014