Written by Richard Hough and Michael Frostick.
Four weekly Wheelbase programmes looking back over eighty years of international motoring.

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and Rudi Uhlenhaut, Mercedes chief engineer, recall the rivalry between Rolls-Royce and Daimler Benz, and W. F. Bradley, Percy Kidner, George Lanchester, and St. John Nixon describe making and driving the world's first cars, and give an eye-witness account of the Gordon Bennett road races, the 1,000 miles trial of 1900, and the opening of Brooklands.

Next Friday: Part 2 - Any colour you like as long as it's black (1918-1930)
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