Electric Car (1947)

Unissued / unused material. Electric car beats the “basic“ (petrol rationing?) Hastings, Sussex. Tracking shot of Hastings street taken from front of electric car on the move. Various shots electric car driving along - it is small like a child’s car, two men sit inside it. A Sunbeam W (with Weymann body) trolleybus overtakes the electric car. M/S two men lifting up little car to show undercarriage. Item is cuts from Gazette issue 47/96. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All