Safety Straps Beware - Other Colour Pics Share This Title (1960)

M/S of a girl sitting on a car seat on a test rig outside, being strapped into her safety belt by a man. The seat belt is referred to as a harness, and has straps for both arms, holding the girl snugly against the seat, plus one over her waist. Commentator says these harnesses would save some 700 lives and prevent 50,000 injuries annually (this is presumably before seat belts were made standard in cars) and informs us we are at the British Standards Institution at Hemel Hempstead (Hertfordshire). The man works a lever to gradually bring the girl back to the end of the rig. C/U of the girl in the seat moving backwards in jerky movements. The seat is then released and rushes forward at a seemingly tremendous speed; although commentator tells us the rig is simulating a car stopping suddenly at only eight miles an hour. The girl is jerked forward as the seat reaches the end of the rig, but seems well enough and manages a smile. A man is seen inside the Institute at a Tensile Test machine, which measure