New "Atom" Lightweight Car (1954)
Chalfont St. Peter. New 'Atom' lightweight car, documentation on file provided by Fairthorpe Ltd. Various shots of chassis as mechanics test. Air-Vice Marshall Bennett and staff around chassis. Fitting on plastic shell body. Various shots of car on road. Test - driven by Air-Vice Marshall Bennett. Interior of car, suitcases being lifted in. (Orig.Neg.) FILM ID:2630.21 FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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