Motorway Safety Precautions For Bad Weather (1965)

Hemel Hempstead. Newspaper cuttings on file. MS. Man gets out of landrover on hard shoulder and places fog sign on edge of M.1. VS. Some workmen installing kerb lighting on a road island so that when it’s foggy the kerb can be seen (road sign behind ’Clapham Common North’). VS. In Worcestershire Police H.Q. a policeman sitting at fog controls. He throws a switch to operate a fog sign somewhere on the road. MS. Part of motorway and pan to sign board. The electrical operated board flashes lights for fog, accident and skid risk. VS. Good of traffic moving at speed along motorway and pan with it, police car passes with flashing light. (Orig. Neg.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items