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[MattTuck]

A friend just shared this Youtube channel called "British Pathe" Videos of the 20th Century (https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe)

They have quite a few cycling videos -- I think these were recorded and edited to be shown before the show started at movie theatres, so they're pretty short. Here's a sampling. Most of the ones I've watched don't seem to have sound. Link to search results on that channel searching for "cycling" (https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe/search?query=cycling)

1961 Tour of Flanders (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7NxQePh2ao) ("He finished 21st in the tour de france, a high place for a British rider")

Cycling tips from the 30's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsEKPHFoIp0) (They certainly had a grim outlook. hearse, mortuary... )

Housewife cycling champion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjNzpWph-io)

1949 Paris Roubaix (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpLuwk6OFxM)

1957 MSR (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bff8RJx4q4)

An early take on D2R2? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMPcd2ccejU)

1955 World Championships? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX0h19pJkbQ)

[MattTuck]

Tour de France 1951 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcd_u4YMZAA)

Milk bottles were apparently a national security issue during WWII (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL0Rkt4y5Bw)

[William]

It's a good channel. I've found a lot of interesting things on it.






William

[zerocool5468]

nice find!