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Electric Car 1948
Description
Reading, Berkshire.
A man called Kenneth Smee walks towards a tiny electric car parked in a road. We are told that Kenneth built the car himself. He gets in and drives off. Various travel shots of the car going along the road.
Smee pulls up outside his house and reverses into position....
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 34091
- Sort Number:
- NP 178
- Time in/Out:
- 01:16:44:00 / 01:18:35:00
- Canister:
- NP 178
- Film ID:
- 1247.10
- Issue Date:
- 09/02/1948
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From 01:05, all the footage is shot on St George's Road in Reading.