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General Motors guidelines for maintaining private cars during World War II, when none were manufactured in the U.S.A.
General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.
Student drivers attend lecture by Bob Bondurant, ambulance, police and race car training at Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving
A Mercedes-Benz sedan driven by Bob Bondurant. Sign for the "Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving" located at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. Gran Prix racecar driver, Bob Bondurant, drives. Grand Prix and other racing trophies awarded to Bob Bondurant. Various cars parked in driving school lot. Bob Bondurant lectures to driving school students inside classroom, mostly men but one woman as well. Bob Bondurant points to diagram. A woman drives a red Chevrolet Camaro on driving school road course. Bob Bondurant uses a toy racecar to demonstrate proper drifting. A car drifts on road course. Police car drives in road course. Ambulance driver drives during a practical driving class. Ambulance drifts on wet road course and recovers. Police pursuit driving in road course. Police car safely evades a tumbling block from car. Police car makes a sharp 180 turn during police pursuit driving class. Police car overtakes and apprehends car. Grand Prix student racecar drivers approach several cars, including Porsches and Grand Prix models. Driver puts on a helmet and enters car. Two cars both drive off, one a Porsche 911. Grand Prix drivers drive in road course during training, with two Porsche 911 cars chasing a Grand Prix model. Bob Bondurant speaks to female student driving a Chevy Camaro. Tire rolled in front of a moving ambulance. Bob Bondurant lectures with diagram. Police car pulls up after laps. Bob Bondurant shakes hands with female driving student. Traffic light turns red.
Images recorded from chase plane during the first powered flight of an X-15 Rocket Plane, at Edwards Air Force Base, California
Photograpy from an airborne chase plane, on the occasion of the first powered flight of an X-15 rocket plane. A Lockheed F-104 Starfighter chase plane seen flying in the contrails of the NASA B-52 mothership (NB-52A,52-003) flown by pilots Bock and Allovie, An F-100D fighter flies slightly ahead of the B-52. The X-15, 56-6671, with Scott Crossfield, in the cockpit, is cradled under the B-52's right wing. View from the photo chase plane, as it pulls closer to the B-52. The X-15 and leading F-100 chase plane are clearly visible. The camera plane has dropped back and the X-15 releases, from the B-52 mothership, as its rocket engines simultaneously ignite. It drops and accelerates below and in front of the B-52. It stays below momentarily, without leaving a contrail. Then it accelerates and climbs rapidly out of sight. Sunlight glares as two chase planes are seen.
Automat, Wall Street, and Empire State Building in New York City, United States.
Automat, Wall Street, and Empire State building in New York City, United States. Crowd moves through the streets. People eat at an Automat. A woman inserts a coin into an automat and gets her food at the coin operated cafeteria. A man receives coffee at the automat. Banks on Wall Street. View of the New York Stock Exchange. A flag reads 'New York Trust Company.' A sign reads 'The Chase National Bank'. People stand outside the banks. Vehicular traffic moves along the street. View of Empire State Building. Cars parked outside the building. Sign outside reads 'Spear's'
A D-558-2 Skyrocket with a B-29 Superfortress aircraft in flight during development tests at Muroc Air Force Base, California
D-558-2 Skyrocket with a B-29 Superfortress in flight over Muroc Air Force Base (soon after renamed Edwards Air Force Base). A B-29 Superfortress in flight. A Skyrocket is attached to the belly of B-29. Insignia of United States. A chase plane flies on the left side of the B-29. The posterior part of D-558-2 and B-29. Jet is turned on and the Skyrocket is still attached to B-29. Vapor comes out from the jet line. U.S. Navy Skyrocket emits much vapor while still attached to B-29. The Skyrocket with B-29 in flight. The Skyrocket detaches from B-29 mother ship and is in flight. It flies over the mountains. The Skyrocket makes pass from the landing field. (Note: the Superfortress bomber seen here has the big WASP Major engines. So it is probably a B-50 - perhaps XB-50.)
Large crowd gathers to watch 74th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore, Maryland.
Large crowd gathers for the running of the 74th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Track, Baltimore Maryland, where they watch as the tree year old Citation, of Calumet Farms, ridden by Jockey Eddie Arcaro, wins the race by 51/2 lengths.
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