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... For Archive Licensing Enquiries Visit: Explore Our Online Channel For FULL Documentaries, Fascinating Interviews & Classic Movies: #BritishPathé #History #Car #Automobile #Motor #Invention #Engineering Subscribe to the British Pathé YT Channel: (FILM ID:) 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. (Mute & Track Negs.) BRITISH PATHÉ’S STORY Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news. British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. If it happened, British Pathé filmed it. Now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance. 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 footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.