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B U C K S

18th April, 1962.

Miss. Grace Field, Pathe News, Film House, 142 Water Street, LONDON, W.l.

Dear Miss. Field,

At the request of Miss. Burnty, I am sending you two passes for your film camera men for the Easter Bonnet Parade on Sunday, 22nd April, at ̂ oburn Park.

Perhaps you would be kind enough to ask your camera men to enquire for me personally when I shall be pleased to give them any assistance they may require.

Yom\s sincerely,

J. Barton f Comptroller to His Grace the Duke of Bedford.

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April 13, 1962.

Dear Sir,

LONDON'S EASTER PARADE - BATTERSEA PARK EASTER SUNDAY. APRIL 22, 1962

PRESS ARRANGEMENTS

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In order to ensure that Press, radio, and TV arrangements for

London's Easter Parade run smoothly, we would be grateful if you would inform us whether it is your intention to be represented on the day, and if more than one person from your organisation will be in attendance. The completion and return of the form enclosed would assist us considerably in assessing Press requirements, and in planning such matters as grandstand seating and car parking facilities. Upon learning of your requirements, we shall forward to you lapel badge(s) of identification, car stickers, and details of arrangements for the Press.

The Parade is an occasion when the ladies might well wish to

accompany their menfolk, and we welcome their presence.

For your guidance at this stage, all gates into Battersea Park

will close at 2 p.m., and the Easter Parade will start at 3 p.m.

Yours faithfully,

Michael Napper, Hon. Press Officer. Hon. Press u incer .

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BONNEY & DAVID LIMITED P U B L I C R E L A T I O N S

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Miss Grace Field, News Editor, Pathe News, Associated British-Pathe Limited, Film House, 142 Wardour Street, 11th April, London, W.l. 1962.

Dear Grace,

I am enclosing six Photographers' Armlets and two Circuit windscreen stickers for the international motor racing meeting at Goodwood on Easter Monday. If you should not require all six armlets, please be a sweetie and return any that you can — X am terribly short of them this year.

As you know the National Sky Diving and Parachuting Championship finals will take place at the circuit from 11 o'clock onwards on Easter Monday. The motor racing armlets will, of course, take your crew in for this event should you wish to cover.

With kindest regards,

Yours

IG/GME/PL encs:

DIRECTORS: GEORGE BONNEY, M.I.P R. HAROLD DAVID, M.I.P.R. ERNEST BONNEY (SECRETARY)

CLIFFORD PRITCHARD, B.A. H.C. DUNCKLEY

cerely,

With Compliments

BONNEY & DAVID Ltd.

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"Daily Telegraph" National Sky Diving and Parachuting Championship. From: Ian Gordon, Press Liaison,

2nd April, 1962.

SKY DIVING THRILLS AT GOODWOOD

Goodwood becomes the centre of a new sporting championship this

month. For the next three weekends, and reaching a spectacular climax

on Easter Monday, the airfield in the centre of the motor racing cir­

cuit on the Duke of Richmond and Gordon's West Sussex estate will be

the scene of the first National Sky Diving and Parachuting Championship.

Twenty-five top ranking British parachutists have been selected

to compete for the "Daily Telegraph" Challenge Trophy. They will dive

into space from more than a mile up in the sky for the sheer thrill of

gambling with gravity, and use the air much as a swimmer uses water

before a last-minute reliance on parachutes to bring them gently to

earth.

Preliminary stages of the Championship will be decided at

Goodwood this weekend (April 7th and 8th) and next weekend with the

semi-finals on Easter Sunday. The six finalists then make their

title-deciding jumps in a special programme on the morning of Easter

Monday prior to the international motor race meeting.

There are two types of test in the Championship. In the first

of these, entrants sky-dive from 7,000 feet and perform aerial acro­

batics while free-falling for a period of 25 to 30 seconds before

pulling the ripcord of their gaily-coloured parachutes. In the second

they have to carry our precision jumps to a ground target from 3,300 ft.

and 5,000 ft., again free-falling before using their 'chutes to steer

themselves towards the six-inch "bull's-eye" of the target.

In the sky-diving tests, competitors use arms and legs like

aircraft control flaps to execute a sequence of turns and loops. A

stop watch and altimeter mounted on the reserve parachute strapped to

their chest tell them how much air space and time they have in hand

for the manoeuvres. In the precision jumps they show amazing accuracy,

and touching down on the bull's-eye is commonplace.

Visiting teams from America and Austria will compete m an

unofficial international contest with British sky-divers on Easter

Sunday and Easter Monday, and there will be special displays by the

R.A.F. Parachute Display Team and 22nd Special Air Service Regiment.

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With Compliments

BONNEY & DAVID Ltd.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

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83/86 FARRINGDON STREET, E.C.4

FLEET STREET : 4766, 4767 & 1749

Ian Gordon: Press Liaison, Goodwood Road Racing Company Limited. 9th April, 1962.

FULL-SCALE GR.AND PRIX BATTLE

AT GOODWOOD ON EASTER MONDAY

Britain's leading racing teams meet in a 100-mile Grand Prix

trial at Goodwood on Easter Monday, and the outcome should be a fair

pointer to their form and chances in the world championship series

starting in Holland next month.

This annual battle on the West Sussex circuit is, by tradition,

the most important curtain raiser to the full international season,

and a field of 18 Formula I racing cars has been accepted for the

event.

Just half this number are the latest challengers from the stables

of the five leading British teams. Two of the new B.R.M.s with V.8

engines developed at the Bourne (Lines) headquarters of the team are

to be driven by Graham Hill and Ritchie Ginther, the American who last

year drove for Ferrari. Stirling Moss leads the U.D.T./Laystall attack

of three Lotus models with Innes Ireland and Mastcn Gregory in support;

John Surtees and Roy Salvador! carry the colours of the rival Bowmaker-

Yeoman team - most likely in the new Lola F.I cars: while Bruce

McLaren, as the new team leader of the once all-conquering Cooper con­

cern, is due to handle the latest car from Surbiton.

To find out just how good the home opposition is, Colin Chapman,

whose Team Lotus had such a successful season in South Africa during

the winter, is sending one of hi3 new cars to the starting grid, but

has not yet nominated the driver.

There will be foreign entries to add spice to this high-speed

hors d'oeuvre of championship events to come. Wolfgang Seidel, of

Germany, will be in the cockpit of an ex-works Porsche and backed up

by his fellow countryman Gunther Seifert in a Lotus. From America, and

intent on breaking into the ranks of the international "circus" comes

Jay Chamberlain - also relying on a Lotus.

Another young driver who wants to perfect his racing in top

class company is Tony Shelly. This 25-year-old New Zealander has been

financed by his father to have a full European season of racing after

making a name for hinself on ciicuits "down under". And, he has no

illusions about sudden stardom. "I am here to learn from the masters,

he says.