| ALL ROADS HAVE END Footage of cars being tested for safety in Hendon and stock car racing in Hampshire. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5835 |
| Catalog #: | 299831 | |
| Clip Number: | 299831-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 60/74 | |
| Timecode: | 01:19:08 - 01:22:32 | |
| Location: | Hampshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1960 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CONSTRUCTION: Equipment CONSTRUCTION: Roads & Highways LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Hampshire TRANSPORTATION: Roads, Misc TRANSPORTATION: Safety/Testing TRANSPORTATION/AUTOMOBILE: Racing TRANSPORTATION/AUTOMOBILE: Repair / Service | |
| Description: | All Roads Have End. Hampshire. View of bulldozers pouring sediment into back of dump truck. View of bulldozer driver. CU of hands operating machinery. Various shots of truck sifting road sediment out of back of truck and onto the road. L/S Government appointed vehicles testing station in Hendon. L/S Man sitting in his car while attendant takes a sheet from him and walks away to start testing the vehicle. M/S. Mechanic at device which registers the efficiency of the brakes. C/U Car wheel turning slowly on rollers. C/U Dial needle registering just short of the required mark. L/S The car moving forward over pit. Several mores shots of various parts of the car being tested for safety. L/S The car moving out of the testing bay and stopping front of office. M/S Man getting out of car and walking into the office. L/S Cars piled high in a junk yard. L/S Old wreck on top of the pile. L/S Worker using oxy acetylene torch for cutting the metal of old cars. M/S Man using sledge hammer to break wing off old car. M/S Man putting car wheel into crushing device. M/S The press moving down on the metal. L/S A cube of compressed metal being ejected from the machine. L/S Wrecked van being towed into the yard. L/S an old car being driven into the yard. L/S The owner talking to the breaker. C/U The breakers hands handing the car owner money. Camera pan as the owner walks away leaving his car. L/S Pan a stock car race in progress. L/S Stock car going past camera. L/S Two stock cars having had a collision sliding across the track together. C/U One of the car wheels spinning in the mud. L/S Man trying to shift the cars which are locked together. Another car comes up and hits one of the cars. M/S Two cars going past camera nose to tail. L/S Two cars in collision. L/S Two cars colliding. L/S Men jumping on back bumper of a car from which smoke is pouring from the hub of the near-side rear wheel the tire having been burnt off. L/S Car coming towards camera with only the hub left of its off side front wheel which is churning up mud. L/S The car going into a ditch with a tremendous splash the engine is smoking. | |


