Product successfully added to your shopping cart
Quantity
Total
Continue shopping Proceed to checkout
New product
Warning: Last items in stock!
Availability date:
| Location | Le Mans, France |
| Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
| Shooting date | 14 june 1931 |
| Original picture | Negative |
| Era | 1858-1960 |
| Colors | Black&White |
| Collection | Endurance |
| New products | New works |
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events from the 1920's through to the early 1990's. The first colour images appeared in the mid 1950's and 30 years of unpublished 35mm colour images remain in the LAT Black Books.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.
A certain tranquility pervades the spectators seated in the forest clearings, yet they are witnessing a true revolution. The racing car they watch speed past is the brand-new Alfa Romeo 8C 2336cc with a Roots supercharger, conceived by the brilliant engineer Vittorio Jano, with assistance from Enzo Ferrari for his Scuderia. This Alfa will simply crush the competition at the 1931 24 Hours of Le Mans. Powerful and reliable, the beautiful Italian car is driven by two Englishmen whose motorsport skills are beyond question. At the wheel is "Tim" Birkin, already a Le Mans winner in 1929 in a Bentley with Barnato, who will secure his second victory here with Lord Howe, a prominent member of the UK Parliament who developed a passion for motorsport later in life.
This first victory for an Alfa Romeo at the 24 Hours of Le Mans will break the distance record by covering more than 3000km at the breathtaking average speed for the time of 125km/h.
