Electric Car 1947

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Unissued / unused material.

Electric car beats the "basic" (petrol rationing?) Hastings, Sussex.

Tracking shot of Hastings street taken from front of electric car on the move. Various shots electric car driving along - it is small like a child's car, two men sit inside it. A Sunbeam...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
sound
Media URN:
64621
Sort Number:
UN 1859 E
Time in/Out:
01:42:51:00 / 01:43:45:00
Canister:
UN 1859 E
Film ID:
2198.13
Issue Date:
1947

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  • At 00:14 the car goes past the "Bo Peep" pub on Grosvenor Crescent in St. Leonards on Sea in Hastings.

    "A double-decker bus overtakes the car" - actually it's a trolleybus, a Sunbeam W with Weymann body, Reg. No. BDY 804.

    jamied 9th May 2012
  • Excellent. Many thanks.

    British Pathé 19th Jun 2012
  • A small amount of extra footage for this story, with sound, can be found in clip 1197.21.

    jamied 23rd Dec 2012

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