Coal Up Your Car! 1932

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Titles read: "Coal up your Car! If petrol goes on rising, we may have to go back to coal - like this fellow!"

United States of America.

Various shots of a coal-powered car; a crowd watches as a man, Mr Hershel puts some coal in the burner that is inside the bonnet. He then drives the...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37329
Sort Number:
PT 137
Time in/Out:
01:18:59:00 / 01:19:36:00
Canister:
PT 137
Film ID:
1066.10
Issue Date:
07/11/1932

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