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1969: CANNONBALL SELBY and the GRAND TOUR | The Philpott File | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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10:50Now PlayingTrevor Philpott boards the Panorama II, a coach set to tour such seaside towns as Newquay, Ilfracombe and Boscastle. Still then immensely popular, what were the particular joys of a week-long, bus trip holiday? Saucy postcards, a bit of sun and a naughty game called ‘spoon and string”.
At that centre of it all, a veteran driver of 30 years, ‘Cannonball’ Selby, who explains what makes his customers tick.
Clip taken from The Philpott File: On Cannonball Selby, originally broadcast on Sat 26 Jul 1969.
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