Guy Motors Children's Outing to Sutton Park 1938

Boating is the main attraction as children of workers from a Wolverhampton factory descend on Sutton Park.

Sutton Park is the largest urban park in Britain outside London. Situated only seven miles from Birmingham in Sutton Coldfield, the park has been a green retreat for generations of workers from the industrial hub of the Midlands. This 1938 outing shows children of workers from Guy Motors in Wolverhampton. Trips on the steam boat Foam are the main attraction brought to vivid colourful life in the second half of this reel.

The filmmaker Sydney Guy (1885-1971) retired as chairman and managing director of Guy Motors in 1957. He set up the firm that manufactured cars, buses and lorries in 1914. Guy Motors of Fallings Park in Wolverhampton was taken over by Jaguar in 1961 with production finally ending in 1982, by which point the firm was part of the British Leyland empire.