Bristol Cars on Film Dvd: Le Mans 1955 Crash Bristol 403 BAC Freighter R101 A380

Bristol Cars on Film Dvd\nThis souvenir DVD is based on two high-quality 16mm films shot by the late Ted Ashman, Chief Photographer of the Bristol Aeroplane Company in the mid-1950s. \nEnhanced by modern location footage and informed commentary, it will be greatly enjoyed by Bristol Car owners and enthusiasts.\nThe first film traces the progress of a Bristol 403 making a journey from London to Paris in 1954.\nIts objective was to publicise Bristol Cars and to prove that travelling in a modern sports saloon on a long cross-channel journey would be comfortable and pleasant. \nAppropriately, the car is air-lifted from Lympne Airfield in another BAC product, the Bristol Freighter, which was known as \u2018The Five Ton Lorry Of The Air.\u2019\nSome notable landmarks are passed en-route, including a memorial which commemorates the 46 passengers and crew who lost their lives following the R101 Airship disaster at Beauvais in 1930.\nThe Le Mans film, which was shot in colour i.