Sport Tops Holiday List (1949)

Full title reads: “Sport Tops Holiday List“. Birmingham Airport. King’s Cup Air Race. MV ’planes lined up. SV Hawker 1040. SV Tommy Rose. SV Miss R M Sharp, only woman entrant. MV Planes taxiing to start. SV First ’plane Comper Smith takes off. SV Group Captain Townsend. pilot of Princess Margaret’s ’plane. SV Princess Margaret’s ’plane Whitney Straight taking off. LV ’planes circling pylon. MV C L Cole’s Comper Smith round pylon. MV Short Seeland round. LV No 19, miles Gemini 1A. LV Crowd. LV aircraft flying towards pylon. Crowd. LV winner Gemini III crossing line pan to crowd. SV Winner Holding Cup. (John Somers) He says: ’It was a grand race and I feel very, very lucky to win it’. Oulton Broads, Norfolk. Yachting scenes. GV Yachts moored on quayside. SV Man battling with billowing sail. SV Three Yachts. SV Two women on yacht. LV yacht sailing out to starting buoy. SV Starters. MV Yachts under way. MV Yacht racing, heeling over. CU man looking through binoculars. MV Yacht rounding buoy. VS yachts.