I second Peter's comments. Maybe Jan could include this or do a piece for VQ?
A quick Google found this:
http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/
I notice there is also a 1956 title Cyclists Abroad which sounds equally fascinating.
Cheers,
Paul "can only dream of Spring in a frigid Ottawa" Williams
Paul B. Williams, PhD (Queen's)
70 Viscount Ave.,
Ottawa, On, K1Z 7M9
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e-mail: castell5@sympatico.ca
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 9:14 AM Subject: Re: [CR]Cyclists Special documentary.
> Greetings, Nic and CR mates---
>
> Fab link, Nic! I had been wondering if there were any
> moving images of those halcyon days of British cycle
> touring. As I was born 30 years too late and on other
> soil it makes me want to hop in a time machine and go
> back there. I've seen many reports of the Cyclists
> Special train in my old CTC Gazettes, but a film?
> Brilliant! Tell me, is the film available commercially
> (or otherwise) in a format playable in the States [dvd
> or ntsc video tape]?
>
> And what is that georgeous cycle with the
> chromium-plated head tube in the third row of photos
> on page three (just after the chap sipping typically
> British fizzy lemonade)? Is that a Claud Butler badge,
> or something else? Can't tell on my monitor. Any
> guesses, anyone?
>
> Thanks so much for your work posting those pictures.
>
> Cheerio,
>
> The Keen Clubman
> Peter Jourdain
> Whitewater, Wisconsin
>
> --- Nic Henderson <nic.henderson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi listees
>> For those of you who enjoyed (or not) my 'Visit to
>> Jack Taylor Cycles'
>> (which is actually a description of a documentary
>> about the Taylor
>> brothers called 'The Bike Brothers') on my
>> semi-retired 'BikeBrothers'
>> site (http://www.bikebrothers.co.uk/taylorbros.htm),
>> I have just given a
>> sililar treatment to the 'Cyclists Special' a
>> charming information film
>> made by British Transport Films. This 1955 film
>> follows some cyclists as
>> they set off on a special train from Willesden and
>> Watford and travel to
>> Rugby in the Midlands. I'm sure I've heard this
>> documentary mentioned
>> before on the list, so my appologies if I am going
>> over old ground, no
>> pun intended.
>>
>> See it here
>> http://www.bikebrothers.co.uk/
>>
>> Nic Henderson
>> Newport
>> UK
>>
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