The Car Catcher Aka Motor Device (1939) | British Pathé
This archive footage from 1939 shows two Sheffield based engineers demonstrating a new scooping invention for the front of your car that potentially staves off injury to pedestrians if you were to hit them...
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Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Various shots of the inventors, two Sheffield engineers, demonstrating his car safety device - a scoop fitted to front of car which is opened to scoop up pedestrians and save them from injury in an accident. Several shots of the two engineers demonstrating their device. One man is driving the car fitted with device, another is crossing the street while reading newspaper. He jumps in front of a car - device opens and scoops him up.
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