Electric Car 1970-1979

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Description

Unused / unissued material - Colour material.

London.

Various shots of bright yellow electrically powered car driving along a busy street.

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
92628
Sort Number:
UN 4677 R
Time in/Out:
01:45:37:00 / 01:46:09:00
Canister:
UN 4677 R
Film ID:
3406.14
Issue Date:
1970 - 1979

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  • The electric vehicle seen here is the Enfield 8000.

    The attached page gives more details about the car. By the way, the orange car photographed on that page is the exact same one seen in this clip (VDL 856K).......

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_8000

    jamied 9th Jul 2012
  • Reducing this clip's current date range, the car wasn't developed until 1973.

    jamied 16th Aug 2012

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