The Metropolis

VIDEO: 1960s businessman rides amphibious scooter down the Thames

Mike Pollitt | Wednesday 19 September, 2012 12:37

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“It might seem improbable, these ski scooters using dear old father Thames as a waterway for workaday businessmen…”

Nothing improbable about it. Nothing improbable about it at all.

Via the brilliant British Pathe YouTube channel. Although I detect in this commentary that a certain ironic knowingness had crept in to the Pathe newsreels by the 1960s. The end was beginning.

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