| MOTOR INDUSTRY RESEARCH Steering, suspension and various other tests are carried out on cars to ensure safety and comfort for the driver. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6070 |
| Catalog #: | 303693 | |
| Clip Number: | 303693-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 602 | |
| Timecode: | 01:19:40 - 01:23:11 | |
| Location: | Nuneaton, Warwickshire. | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Product Testing LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England TRANSPORTATION/AUTOMOBILE: Industry & Assembly | |
| Description: | MOTOR INDUSTRY RESEARCH Steering, suspension and various other tests are carried out on cars to ensure safety and comfort for the driver. Nuneaton, Warwickshire. LS Tracking car attached to lorry swerving L. to R. CU Man watching from lorry with headphones. MS Tracking car swerving. CU Man with headphones watching CU Front wheels tracking. MS From lorry as car is swerving. MS Man in ice control room. MS Through window of car covered with ice. MS Car covered in ice. CU Headlamps with icicles hanging from bonnet. MS Man checking windscreen. MS Man in ice control room. he gives thumbs up and signal to man in car. HAMS Cars exhaust as it starts up. CU Exhaust pipe as some comes out. MS Car as man lifts bonnet and looks at engine. CU Cars engine. MS Sound proof door coming to camera camera pans L. to sound proof workshop to show body shell of Ford Cortina under test. CU As man does some adjustments to instruments in body shell. MS Woman taking notes. CU Oscillagraph. MS Woman taking notes. CU Oscillagraph. MS Wind tunnel propeller starting up. MS Sports car with tape stuck all over it under wind test. MS Wind tunnel control room through window of car under test. CU Streamers on car. C.S. Wires on control panel as hand takes one out and plugs it in elsewhere. MS Man at control panel. CU Graph coming out of machine. MS Woman looking at graph. LS Lorry cabin in work room with driver testing it for measurements. MS Driver and tester measuring lengths for steering wheel and foot pedals. CU Foot operating foot-pedal. LACU Through steering wheel of man turning it. LS Test track Mini pulling caravan up and past. MS Rover coming up and past camera on bumpy road followed by Austin 1800 and M.G. Midget. MS Interior Rover as it goes along track LS As Rover passes camera on cambered road. MS Interior Rover along track. LALS Rover up and past camera followed by Austin 1800. Tracking along in front of Rover which is followed by M.G. Midget and then Austin 1800 as they go along cambered track. Interior Rolls Royce as it goes along track following Rover. Tracking along beside Midget and Austin 1800. CU Drivers hands on steering wheel of Rolls. Tracking shot from inside Rolls as it overtakes Rover. MS Rolls driver. Tracking in front of Rolls which is followed by 1800 and M.G. Interior Rolls as it passes Jaguar. LS As 1800 then Rover then Midget then Rolls then Rover pass camera on banked road. MS Cobbled stone road pan up to show 1800 coming to camera along cobbles. (Road very very bumpy.) MS Rolls passing camera R. to L. on bumpy cobbles. MS Rover and 1800 up and past camera on wet cobbles road. MS Water dip pan up to show 1800 going through water. Interior Rover as it goes into water following 1800. Interior Rover as it goes through dust tunnel. LS Exterior dust tunnel as Rover comes out and past camera. MS Old Rover going round and round in circles on tarmac. LS Old Rover coming to camera for break test it skids. | |


