1952 MG TD

1952 MG TD in Heights of Danger, Movie, 1953

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dsl ◊ 2015-04-28 23:47	The centrepiece of the film - which is pretty much the template for the first Herbie film (although the MG does not have an irritating "personality" like that obnoxious Beetle). Early 52 plate in same Berkshire series as the Riley, so may well be factory supplied. I kept noticing how spare wheel(s) on back keep changing - hubcap/no hubcap, normal wheel/wide wheel, sometimes 2 tyres/sometimes 1. At the family garage in Buckinghamshire At a local trial/hillclimb (the continuity goes a bit AWOL; hillclimb may be Shelsley Walsh in Worcestershire) and back home, including helping the poorly Humber Off to catch the Dover ferry, and being craned on board Foreign stuff on the rally, carrying all the luggage. Note how rally plates appear and disappear. Some sequences clearly took place with an actual rally, other bits are recreations, and there are studio bits against a rolling scenic backcloth And a "foreign" bit very obviously filmed in UK - could be Lake District, but my hunch is A5 in North Wales near Bethesda, due to slate quarries. The castle/grotto/whatever beside the road should be a clue where. ======================================= Despite all the errors and shortcuts onscreen, it is still a very good portrait of the MG in all sorts of interesting settings and contexts, and the cinematography is excellent.

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◊ 2015-04-28 23:47

The centrepiece of the film - which is pretty much the template for the first Herbie film (although the MG does not have an irritating "personality" like that obnoxious Beetle). Early 52 plate in same Berkshire series as the Riley, so may well be factory supplied. I kept noticing how spare wheel(s) on back keep changing - hubcap/no hubcap, normal wheel/wide wheel, sometimes 2 tyres/sometimes 1.

At the family garage in Buckinghamshire

At a local trial/hillclimb (the continuity goes a bit AWOL; hillclimb may be Shelsley Walsh in Worcestershire) and back home, including helping the poorly Humber

Off to catch the Dover ferry, and being craned on board

Foreign stuff on the rally, carrying all the luggage. Note how rally plates appear and disappear. Some sequences clearly took place with an actual rally, other bits are recreations, and there are studio bits against a rolling scenic backcloth

And a "foreign" bit very obviously filmed in UK - could be Lake District, but my hunch is A5 in North Wales near Bethesda, due to slate quarries. The castle/grotto/whatever beside the road should be a clue where.

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Despite all the errors and shortcuts onscreen, it is still a very good portrait of the MG in all sorts of interesting settings and contexts, and the cinematography is excellent.

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