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The 1973 Caravan Rally
John Heppenstall brought us a Dunlop newspaper all about the 1973 Caravan Rally, which is reproduced here in full as it illustrates perfectly the absolute lunacy of the event. This was the year before John Clegg did it, but the Grewer/Charig duel at Silverstone detailed here was repeated a year later, when Deryck Pickup was there in Cleggy’s service crew and saw the entire performance.
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1956 Driving Tests
Knowldale 2nd Annual Driving Tests, May 1956
In May 1956, Knowldale promoted the 2nd Annual Driving Tests on the Cattle Market in Rochdale Town Centre. The market was opposite the Town Hall where the police station now stands. Some may remember it also being the site of the fairground when that came to town.
Early in 2020, Russell Francis contacted us to say he had some 16mm film of a Knowldale event taken by cameraman Stephen Halliday. Russell kindly sent us the film, which turned out to be a record of the 1956 Driving Tests. More recently he also sent a programme from the day which you can see here: 1956 Driving Tests Programme.
Long standing members will spot some familiar names in the programme amongst both the organisers and competitors.
We had the film transferred to a video file which you can view here
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