A film made in November 1967 showing production of the new Bond Equipe 2 Ltr. GT Mk. 1 at the Bond Cars factories in India Mill and Ribbleton Lane, Preston. Also includes colour pictures of the prototype Equipe, ERE 656E, at the end
How in thoose days - things actually got MADE . Hands and teams - like scores of people busy making something. The sense of 'result', of achievement, - far from today isolated behind a screen - working globally with 'people' you never actually work with.
I seem to have mislaid my VHS copy of this, but the two things I remembered of it were the large positive camber developing at 4:38 and the glimpse of the temperature gauge at 4:41! Marvellous to see this film again, and thank you for posting it, Paul.
Thanks, Chris. It has been on my mind for a long time that I had a lot of V.H.S. stuff from back in the late 1980's which had all but been forgotten. One of two copies of copies of copies of some of my original tapes had been posted onto RU-vid and the quality was even worse than when they were copied from my originals! As V.H.S. is almost obsolete as a viewing medium, it was time to investigate other means which would also allow for a bit of editing and corrective work, if required. Getting them put into MP4 format has ticked all the boxes for me and I can now share them all with others. Glad you enjoyed it. There will be some old T.S.S.C. Equipe Rally videos coming in the near future. Watch this space!
