Aaah the forties, what a golden age that was.
Found via Retronaut.
I think that last one’s my favorite – crushed not just by a car, but by an oil tanker (or “tankar”) ready to fuel up a hundred more kid-killing cars!
“A Ride of Death”
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Just lovely.
And these are tips from the “official” safety manual. Kind of make you wonder what gems were to be found in those covert, underground versions passed around among friends!
I once put together an evening of bike and ped safety films taken off of archive.org (they’ve got some real gems). What emerged from watching all of them is a kind of hidden message: put those bikes away kids–you’re better off in a car once you grow up. At the risk of being conspiratorial, a lot of the safety films were sponsored by car companies or the AAA!