Description: King George V, resplendent in top hat and carrying a cane, cuts the white tape for the opening of what was to become known as the Golden Mile, the stretch of the Great West Road west of Chiswick that housed some of London’s finest Art Deco factories. The brief footage includes shots of the first cars using the road, and the free cakes, or scones, handed out to waiting schoolchildren.

Selected by London's Screen Archives on behalf of the BFI National Archive