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Crash Helmets 1955
Description
Guildford, Surrey.
C/U shot of ball bearings being poured into a canister. M/S of the canister hanging from the chin strap of a crash helmet, testing its endurance. This is one of the tests "a helmet has to survive to gain the British Standards Institution Seal."
A woman's hand takes...
Data
- Time in/Out:
- 01:35:43:00 / 01:37:49:00
- Canister:
- CP 049
- Film ID:
- 37.17
- Issue Date:
- 05/12/1955
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This footage was recorded at Ellis Research & Testing Laboratories Ltd., based in Albury village near Guildford. Early British Standards for helmets were contracted to Ellis Research prior to the BSI building the test facilities at Hemel Hempstead. In later years Ellis Research became Albury Laboratories Ltd. Helmet testing continued at Albury until the rigs and apparatus was dismantled (by myself) in 1982.