Miss Ivy Cummings in 'Black Bess'?

I agree with Mike Costigan and anyway Black Bess has chain drive.

Nice shot of the new Alvis FWD car - Tadpole?

This film of the two-day meeting, 8-9th June 1925, was screened locally not long after and was described in the Skegness News on Wednesday 15 July 1925:

“Skegness Motor Races Film Screened at The Tower. Hearing that there was a desire to see the Pathe Gazette film of the Skegness Motor Races, Mr: Fred Clements had this attraction added specially to his programme of last week-end. The picture was a particularly good one and, shown as it will be in hundreds of cinemas all over the country, will prove a big advertisement for our bracing resort. It opened with a tour of the competitor’s enclosure, Capt. Malcolm Campbell's 350-h.p. Sunbeam and Major Howey's 40-h.p. Leyland receiving special attention. Two or three of the "starts" were also photographed, Miss Ivy Cummings being given a special close-up. The last part of the film showed the progress of a race from start to finish and how it was taken is a mystery, unless a lift was secured on one of the cars.”

Which report suggests this “excerpt” from 8th June is pretty-much all there is of the twelve class events scheduled for day one, when the weather was described accurately for Skegness as “bracing”, with none filmed from the four or five class events on day two, which had “brilliant sunshine”.

As to Ivy Cumming’s car, the Skegness beach sprints of 8th June 1925 were the first events in which she drove a 1498c.c. (some reported it 1452c.c.) 11.4-h.p. Bugatti. She won one event for the Cavendish silver cup, Class 11: Tourist cars of unlimited c.c., beating Leon Cushman driving a 20-h.p. Crossley when she achieved 49.5mph. In the up to 3000c.c. class, she was beaten into second place by A. Lanfranchi driving an Alfa. Malcolm Campbell’s 12-cylinder Sunbeam’s fastest run achieved 66.97mph.

Ivy Cummings had raced there in six events in 1924 driving a Frazer-Nash but was not a winner, getting a couple of second places. On the 1st July 1925 she married Stanley Simpson but raced a 1026c.c. Frazer-Nash at Skegness again in 1926 when there were nine one-kilometre races; she won Class 2, sports cars up to 1500c.c. Races were held in 1927 when she doesn’t seem to be listed but in 1928 she won a ladies race in the Mercedes of H. F. Clay.

I doubt thats the Black Bess. The 5 litre Type 18 had a outside shifter and a weird looking spot on the right hand side bonnet, lower part, for the ignition I assume. Thats missing on the video.

Are you sure that's Black Bess? It looks rather small for a 5-litre; it's surely a Type 23 Brescia?