TRANSPORT: Aviation: Fastest Ever King’s Cup (1938)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Alex Henshaw, starting next to scratch, wins 1000 mile air handicap race at record speed of 236 mph. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Fastest Ever King’s Cup ENGLAND: Hatfield: CU signpost (’Hatfield’. Gen. view Comper Swift plane (G-ABWW) moving off. Pan from starter to D.H. plane (G-ADNO) off. Angle shot of starter. CU watches & starter. Pan Percival Mew Gull (G-AEXF)...Henshaw’s plane off. Long view & CU Amy Johnson. Pan & semi view Miles Hawk in turns. Semi view & CU Sir Kingsley Wood & party. Pan Henshaw’s plane landing for re-fueling. Semi view man refueling plane. CU petrol gauge. Semi view man pumping petrol. CU Geoffrey R. De Havilland. CU Florence Desmond. Semi view Charles Hughesdon & wife, Florence Desmond. Gen. view plane round pylon. Pan plane banking around pylon. Shot lap nos. Pa