No Hands 1963

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Crowthorne, Berkshire.

A story about the work carried out by the Road Research Laboratory. We see a man in a car driving along he takes his hands off the wheel and picks up a newspaper, we are told the car is steering itself by following radar gadgets on the road, this experiment is being filmed...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3299
Sort Number:
CP 422
Time in/Out:
01:52:51:00 / 01:54:50:00
Canister:
CP 422
Film ID:
217.09
Issue Date:
28/01/1963

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