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Non Skid Car AKA Now Skid Car 1936
Description
London transport track, Waterloo.
Various shots of a car driving a slalom around various obstacles on a well oiled and watery track - testing skidding. Mr Shoffman has designed a new non skidding system for safer cars. Several shots of the wheels and brakes demonstrating the system. Various...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sanja
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 41640
- Sort Number:
- NSP 015
- Time in/Out:
- 01:25:07:00 / 01:26:12:00
- Canister:
- NSP 15
- Film ID:
- 1218.16
- Issue Date:
- 09/07/1936
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The shots list currently lists the location for this clip as "Waterloo". However I'm sure that's a result of the commentator describing the skidpan as being "the bus-driver's Waterloo", which is simply a figure of speech.
I think instead this is London Transport's skidpan facility at Chiswick.