Aquaplaning
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 4
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: Last-minute checks. Everything is ready for a demonstration which is guaranteed to shock even the best of careful drivers. Aquaplaning - that deadly wet-weather hazard, is being investigated by a Birmingham tyre manufacturer, and there’s a sinister efficiency about the laboratory tests which proves that around 80 mph worn tyres often have no gripping factor on wet roads.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Motor vehicles
- Locations
- Birmingham; England
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Richard Norton
- Length of story (in feet)
- 186
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How to cite this record
'Aquaplaning', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 517, 22 Nov 1964. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121582 (Accessed 03 Mar 2025)