Tubnik (1961)

Brief M/S of the Motorised Bath from CP 269, driving along a street in Kingston, Surrey; commentator tells us “this bath caused a sensation when it was featured in Pictorial“. At Piddinghoe Lake in Newhaven, East Sussex, we see M/S of a large group of students from Brighton walking along the grass. At the head of the group some young men carry a bathtub on their shoulders. Setting it down on the grass, the men fit a steel joist to the underside as a keel while the other students (mostly male with goatee beards) watch. M/S of a bearded student, Allan Witt, tying on his lifejacket; he also wears a sou’wester hat. M/S of students crowding round to watch as one of their pack, Mike Cohen, paints ’Tubnik I’ on the inside of the bath and the taps are fitted. M/S of the ’Tubnik’ on the lake, being launched by Jill Creswell with a bottle of milk; three pasty looking boys in swimming trunks stand thigh high in the lake and cheer; the other students crowd round the edge of the lake and whoop; some people tak