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John James
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 31/08/2008 : 20:27:32
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“Inside The Octagon” was originally released as a Video in 1995. The DVD of the video which I am selling on behalf of the ‘T’ Register should not be confused with an abbreviated version which is on sale at a number of outlets. The duration of the abbreviated version is 60 minutes; the version the Register is selling is the original cut and lasts for 95 minutes. The DVD is available from John James 85 Bath Road, Keynsham, BRISTOL BS31 1SR. The selling price is £12.00 plus £1 postage (UK), £2 (EU), £3 (Rest of World). Cheques should be made payable to “MGCC ‘T’ Register”. The DVD can also be purchased on line from the ‘T Register website www.tregister.org
A brief synopsis of the DVD (which to the best of my knowledge is not available anywhere else in the UK) follows:
“There’s more to the early years of the M.G. story than cars and factories. Inspired by the creativity and passion of founder Cecil Kimber, the loyal staff of Abingdon employees became a family of workers, from designers to panel-beaters, all focused on one single goal – to make the best sports car possible at an affordable price.
It was a company that moved nimbly, creating new models, sometimes in small numbers, to fulfil the fast-driving needs of sporting young automobile enthusiasts as well as gentleman racers. It was a time of seat-of-the-pants engineering and dangerous racing with no safety net. There were speed barriers to be broken, and M.G. was there, pushing tiny engines to the limit and doing what others thought impossible.
All this history comes alive in Inside the Octagon, M.G.: 1921 – 1945. Based on interviews with M.G. personalities, including Kimber’s daughter, Jean Kimber-Cook and the late John Thornley, this film is a fascinating account of the pre-war M.G. Car Company story from its small beginnings in Oxford, in the early 1920s, through the early 1930s when M.G.s became internationally famous for their record-breaking “baby cars,” to World War II when the factory was turned over to wartime production, and finally to 1945 when Cecil Kimber was killed in a freak train accident.
As these personal stories unfold on screen, they are illustrated with archival photographs, footage of restored M.G.s in the English Countryside, and rare newsreel footage. In addition to footage of the M.G. factory ca. 1930, the film contains British Pathé Newsreel scenes of C-Type Midgets racing at Brooklands (1931), EX 120 (M.G.’s first record breaker in 1931), its successor, EX127 (1932) at Brooklands and Montlhery, and later EX135 on the Autobahn in 1939. Home movies shot by an amateur cinematographer in the 1930s captured N-Type Magnettes in road races and give the audience a rare glimpse of a R-Type racing Midget in motion”.
PLEASE NOTE: This DVD is not available in NTSC format. However it can be obtained from Roadster Productions in the USA.
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