Manchester Wheelers' Annual Race Meet | movie | 1901 | Official Trailer
A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon. | dG1fd0tFS1VSNEhNeXM
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00:00 The first sections of the Manchester Wheelers annual race meet of 1901 capture competitors
00:14 in the two miles motor race.
00:38 The trophies on display include the Marathi Cup.
01:01 In order to get the films on show that same evening at the St James's Hall in Manchester,
01:26 Mitchell and Kenyon edited the material in a haphazard manner resulting in various sections
01:31 of the Marathi race meeting forming part of other events filmed on the same day.
01:52 The size of the crowd shows just how popular cycling was.
02:08 The film is a tribute to the late Sir John Mitchell, a British cyclist who died in a
02:35 crash in 1901.
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