Hover Scooter 1960

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Long Ditton, Surrey.

M/S of the hover scooter sitting on the grass as a man, Alistair Pugh, comes into shot. It looks like a funnel with handlebars attached, on top of a circular base with two silver fins sticking up from it. He walks round checking it then climbs astride it. C/Us of the controls...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
2881
Sort Number:
CP 311
Time in/Out:
01:46:12:00 / 01:48:10:00
Canister:
CP 311
Film ID:
123.15
Issue Date:
12/12/1960

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