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| Location | Le Mans, France |
| Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
| Shooting date | 24 juin 1950 |
| Original picture | Negative |
| Formats | Large format |
| Era | 1858-1960 |
| Colors | Black&White |
| Collection | Endurance LM |
Motorsport Images has the largest motoring picture collection in the world. The archive houses approximately 18 million images of which in the region of half are black and white negatives and glass plates. The library is made up of images from the world of motor sport since it began and every conceivable road car since it's invention. This incredible archive is the result of the amalgamation of a number of previously separate archives, which are now housed under one roof.
Many of the images are published pictures from the magazines owned and bought by Haymarket over the years and the archive contains the original prints from the very first 'Autocar' issue published in 1895 right through to the present day issue. 'The Motor' archive contains more sporting images with black and white negatives, glass plate and acetate from 1924 - subjects include road cars, sprints, hill climbs, motor shows and Grands Prix.
The original Teesdale Company supplied pictures to 'MotorSport' magazine (founded in 1924) and Motoring News (founded in 1955) and has over 4 million black & white negatives of motor racing events from the 1920's through to the early 1990's. The first colour images appeared in the mid 1950's and 30 years of unpublished 35mm colour images remain in the LAT Black Books. LAT now supplies the Haymarket Media Group, commercial clients, the worldwide media and agencies with motor sport coverage from around the world from Formula 1 to karting.
The 'Autosport' archive contains images from the world's leading motorsport weekly. Since 1950 all aspects of motor racing from Formula 1, Le Mans and sports cars, rallying, single seaters and club racing have been photographed and archived in colour and black and white formats.
The first thing you notice in this image is of course the Cadillac Coupe de Ville (5.4L V8) "Clumsy Pup" which starts at the top of its spiky line-up. Right next to his Spider version called "The Monster". These cars, which we would rather see on a cinema screen, nevertheless finished 10th and 11th respectively in the edition, driven by Miles and Sam Collier for the sedan, and Briggs Cunningham and Phil Waters for the Spider.
This is the first participation of an American team in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, during this 1950 edition, led by Briggs Cunningham (future winner of the 1958 America's Cup) with his two Cadillacs. He had a good relationship with Ed Cole, the boss of the brand.
The “Monster” reached 210km/h in the Hunaudières, against 185km/h for the Coupé de Ville. Briggs Cunningham will seek victory at Le Mans until 1963.
