Road Research 1957

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Langley, Buckinghamshire.

A man plays with a model of a lorry releasing it on the improvised road slope which ends as a long flat platform. He observes the lorry as it stops along the platform. At the first release, lorry just slows down and stops. At the second release, it stops promptly and...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
1238
Sort Number:
CP 111
Time in/Out:
01:43:42:00 / 01:46:50:00
Canister:
CP 111
Film ID:
57.19
Issue Date:
11/02/1957

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