GO 1400 leading the parade at a 1933 Motor Week event

Contributed by Greg Wrapson (Historian - The Alvis Register)

 

A brief Pathe News film clip with some nice shots of this car:


 

This shows GO 1400 leading the parade at a Motor Week promotional event organised by the numerous motor traders in Great Portland Street in London's West End in 1933. The aviatrix Amy Johnson is sitting up on the back of the Bentley with the then Mayor of St Marylebone, John Fettes.

 

 

Above is a still from the Pathe News film of the 1933 Great Portland Street Motor Week parade showing MS 3926 leading with Amy Johnson and the local Mayor aboard. Another unidentified Bentley can be seen behind -- the Alvis Speed 20 tourer between them survives as a special in Germany.