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

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Title: Automobile and bus that competed in a planned race to demonstrate the importance of following traffic laws, Los Angeles, 1947
Date Created and/or Issued: April 1, 1947
1947-04-01
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Auto - Bus Race
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00280rb6
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Buses--American--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--American--California--Los Angeles
Transportation
Police--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Traffic regulations--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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