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...Vintage Sports Car Club and the British Travel Association had planned it, last week's rally was to be a leisurely tour. Ten oldtimers from each country-five paleolithic cars (1904 to 1914) and five neolithic cars (1920 to 1930)-would take the Great North Road south through Alnwick and Newcastle, Durham and Dar lington. Along the way they would stop for special competition (i.e., parking, hill climbs, obstacle runs), they would be docked for passing check points early or late, and there would be a Concours d'Elegance (beauty contest...
...nine weeks Fox cameramen toured Britain, shooting Technicolor background footage of the island's vistas and keeps-Caernarvon, Warwick, Braemar, Eilean Donan and Alnwick (which in the picture serves for Arthur's Camelot). The Scottish village of Dornie, used for a viking stronghold, was mostly rebuilt on the Fox lot for the big siege scene...
...Over hoary Alnwick Castle on the once embattled Scottish border, a blue and gold ducal standard flew at half-mast announcing that Henry George Alan Percy, Duke of Northumberland, Earl Percy, officer in the Grenadier Guards, had been killed in action. Head of the famous fighting Percy clan, which has battled in & out of England for over 800 years, the 27-year-old Duke died trying to stem the Nazi advance through Flanders. His brother and successor, Lord Hugh Algernon, is in active service with the Northumberland Hussars...