Auto Skates Issue Title Is Step On It (1944)

Part of issue STEP ON IT. London. Inventor Tom Hancocks filling his eccentric new invention - “Auto Skates“ - with petrol. Tom steps into his skates. The invention looks like a pair of roller skates with large engines, petrol tanks and controls attached - they look very cumbersome . Various shots of Tom whizzing down streets on motorised skates. A cab driver and a schoolboy shake and scratch their heads in disbelief. Note: a more mature Tom later starred in a 1962 Colour Pictorial story, titled “Motorised Roller Skates“ (CP 413). Almost 20 years had passed but Tom was still whizzing around on those skates! See separate record for further details. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 1