Car Tests 1953

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Car Trials in Lindley, Warwickshire at the Motor Vehicle Research Association.

L/S (tracking) land rover travelling by the side of another car. M/S Landrover runs onto a section of bumpy cobble stones. L/S Other car travels along a section of roughly ridged road. L/S (from inside saloon car)...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43670
Sort Number:
NP 452
Time in/Out:
01:06:43:00 / 01:07:55:00
Canister:
NP 452
Film ID:
1319.06
Issue Date:
11/05/1953

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