{"id":11517,"date":"2026-04-01T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=11517"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:12:25","slug":"cg-pedal-car-race-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/cg-pedal-car-race-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"C&amp;G Pedal Car Race: 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2024\/07\/Bristol-Pedal-Car-Race-1980.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11591 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2024\/07\/Bristol-Pedal-Car-Race-1980-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>In February 1982, STOIC&#8217;s Mike Hackett ventured into the coldest Prince&#8217;s Gardens to discuss pedal cars. It was City and Guilds who were in training for the Bristol Pedal Car Race. Sadly, I can&#8217;t find any details of the end result, so we are left not knowing how well C&amp;G did. The photo on the left is from Felix, dated 1980. The very last Felix reference to &#8220;pedal cars&#8221; was in 1984, so maybe it just disappeared from student life, like lots of traditional Imperial events seem to have. If you know better, please let me know.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Anyway, enjoy this STOIC archive interview with Tim Bell from City and Guilds and watch some rare colour footage of the pedal cars in action.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"C&amp;G Pedal Car Race: 1982\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aVcJwd-zSuA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw April 2026<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another thing that seems to have disappeared from student life is pedal car races. In 1982, STOIC went over to Prince\u2019s Gardens, in a very cold February, to see what was going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3921,79,80,295168,82],"tags":[3929,158,183,89],"class_list":["post-11517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-campus","category-people","category-student-events","category-student-life","tag-city-and-guilds","tag-clubs-and-societies","tag-princes-gardens","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11517"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12455,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions\/12455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}