Are you ready for some autoball?

We’ve made no secret of our love for the British Pathe archives, and their searchable, viewable collection of 90,000 or so newsreels filmed between 1896 and 1976. Here, for your amusement, is a gem from the vaults, a sub-2-minute report from 1961 on a game of “motor polo, or autoball,” played by teams from Surrey and […]

Welcome to London, Yanks! Your TR3 is waiting

Back in the export-or-die Fifties, British car companies tried everything they could think of to tap into the prosperous U.S. market. Here, American buyers step right off a BOAC four-prop Douglas DC-7C airliner to find their spanking new Triumph TR3s waiting for them on the tarmac. (How eager was Triumph for cash? We wouldn’t be […]