Africa’s Youngest Car Owner! (1940)

Titles read: “AFRICA’S YOUNGEST CAR OWNER!“ South Africa. Various shots of three-year-old Daphne Gregory and the tiny car her father has built for her. Daphne rides along the garden path in it with her father, then an old man fills the petrol tank for her. Daphne rides the car about a field, and lets a boy get into the car beside her to have a go at driving. A group of children follow them around. When the car seems to break down, the little boy gets out and adjusts something in the engine with a spanner. 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 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (19