Automobile and bus that competed in a planned race to demonstrate the importance of following traffic laws, Los Angeles, 1947

Title: Automobile and bus that competed in a planned race to demonstrate the importance of following traffic laws, Los Angeles, 1947
Date Created: April 1, 1947
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Automobile driven by Dick Russell and a bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies that competed in a race as part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until police officer Dick Barlow intervened. California Rug Cleaning Co. is in the background
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Auto - Bus Race

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Buses--American--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Police--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--American--California--Los Angeles
Transportation
Traffic regulations--California--Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: 38621
uclamss_1387_38621-04
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00280rb6
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