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The Wegenwacht of the ANWB in action
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Week number 46-17
Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
The ANWB has put up a new service: the Wegenwacht (Road Patrol). Th car mechanics in ANWB uniform drive around on Harley-Davidson motorcycles with sidecar. They have tools with them to help motorists with car trouble. SHOTS: - six patrollers pass a roundabout in The Hague; - patroller patrols on the expressway; sees a stranded couple standing by the side of the road and helps them with their car troubles; - the woman of the couple sits aside and does her make-up whilst sitting on a kilometre marker and smokes a cigarette while the two men deal with the technical problem underneath the bonnet.
- Creator:
- Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Publication date:
- 15 April 1946
- Length:
- 01:01
- Type:
- video
- Original format:
- User:
- Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
