Austin 1800 Crashes at Thatcham Research Labs

Description

Vintage 1960's footage of early research of what happens to a car when crashed head on into a concrete block at 30mph. At the time the 1800 had one of the strongest structures of any British car rivalled only by the BMW 7 Series so was perhaps not a very representative choice. However the Road Research Lab must have really liked them as they fitted seat belts to the door of another example and used a Princess in a TV advert to enforce the seat belt message during the eighties.

Keywords

austin, 1800, car, crash, morris, wolseley, six, 18/85, landcrab

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