Look at Life: The Spirit of Brooklands
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Documentary (1965)
Starring:
Tim Turner (Himself - Commentator)
The story of the Surrey motor racing circuit which was too a RAF station. Vickers purchased the site in 1946 and produced there civilian aircraft (Vickers Viscount), test flight for the Vanguard and the prototype VC10 (the last one was manufactured on the site).
RAF Brooklands Airport (---/EGLB) was closed in 1970 and to become the Brooklands Museum.
Also from this series:
Look at Life documentaries
Vickers Super VC10 Srs.1151
Registration G-ASGC, c/n 853. First flew on 1 January 1965, and is now preserved at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.
With the Brooklands 1907-1939 Memorial wall on the right.
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