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OFFICE IN THE AIR
British Aviation company starts Contract-Hire scheme for Businessmen to Rent-a-Jet plane. Prosperity means Sales - Sales mean Mobility and the scheme is claimed to be cheaper and more adaptable than using normal airline services....
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TROUBLE AT THE FRONT
From London, a new double decker bus with the engine at the rear and the entrance at the front. An experiment by London Transport to see if it helps the conductor and driver. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any...
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HARRY BY GAS LIGHT
The last real lamplighter of London, Harry Brightwell does his rounds of the 102 lights in the Temple. The remaining gas lamps are being replaced with new sodium lamps at the rate of 400 a year. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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PRESTON BY-PASS
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SEND HER DOWN SIDEWAYS
We show pictures of the ""Ross-Valiant"" being launched at Selby in Yorkshire. She's the largest trawler to be registered at Grimsby. Apart from factory vessels, she'll also be the first diesel electric ship to operate from the port. The...
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STRIKE A NEW NOTE
Seventy-one-year-old Mrs Minnie Lawrence, runs a firm which rejuvenates old pianos. Over twelve hundred re-modelled refurbished instruments leave the factory every year. Every piano is stripped down to its very last note and completely...
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FILL 'EM, DRINK 'EM, BREAK 'EM
A new bottling plant, has just been opened by a brewery in London, and is claimed to be the most advanced of its kind in the world. The output is about a million bottles of beer every day. ® Empty bottles are the main concern of a...
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KEEP THE WHEELS TURNING
The main reason for Mr Marples' visit to the new M6 motorway was to see a road laying train which can lay a mile and a half of motorway a week. This train was specially imported from the States at a cost of nearly four hundred thousand....
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FOCUS ON FARMING
Mr Harvey Fisher and Major Christopher Perkins started their mobile secretarial service to give the farmer more time away from his desk. Based at Wylye in Wiltshire the service employs seven fully trained secretaries, who visit an...
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BIG SHIP - BIG JOB
During her seven weeks in dry-dock at Southampton the Queen Elizabeth is undergoing a thorough overhaul. She is to be painted from head to foot and a few interior alterations have to be made. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an...
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THE ARMY BLOWS A NEW SOUND
While visiting Australia the first Battalion, the Royal Ulster Rifles came face to face with a Didgeridoo. They were so impressed that they asked if they could have one for the band. ® The Didgeridoo is new, but their silver trumpets...
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AMERICA'S CUP HOPE
Kurrewa V has been ordered by Australians, Frank and John Livingstone, and is being built at Sandbank on the Holy Loch. She may be chosen as the latest contender for the America's Cup. With the exception of the light alloy mast the boat...
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PARA-PACKERS PUT 'EM TO THE TEST
The girls of Transport Command's Packing Unit aren't content just to pack the parachutes. Many of them go through a complete course of ground training and eventually jump alongside the paratroops themselves. We went up with some of the...
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OVERSHADOWED BY PROGRESS
The construction of the new flyover at Brentford is causing havoc to the people who live underneath. The looming bulk of the motorway cuts out the light - construction work and traffic fumes make everything filthy, while ever since work...
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""LITTLE DAVID"" DOES GIANT'S JOB
A new crane, built to cut building time in half, has started work on a building site in Battersea. It runs on rails up and down the site and the control system gives finger-touch accuracy. There is also a new safety system by which the...
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MECHANICAL ARM FOR POSTMAN
A new sorting office in London's West End, has cost the GPO four and a half million pounds. It's claimed to be the most up to date and most highly mechanised sorting office in the country. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical...
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OF SHIPS AND THE SEA
Built at Dunston's Yard near Hull, a new schooner called ""Sir Winston Churchill"". The schooner is the first ship of its kind ever paid for by public subscription. She's also the first three masted vessel ever built in this country for...
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""PUSH-BUTTON"" MINE
The Bevercotes Mine near Retford in Nottinghamshire is a working experiment which will eventually lead to a completely automated pit, controlled by a computer. When it begins production later this year, it will be the world's first...
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THE CHURCHILL CHURCH
St. Mary's Aldermanbury - a London church is being dismantled stone by stone before shipping the whole building to America, it will be rebuilt as it stood in London - on the campus of Westminster College in Fulton Missouri, as a memorial...
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GOLD STRIKE ON A FARM
A small farm in the village of Henneman, near Johannesburg, has literally struck gold, making the owner very rich. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata...
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ARGENTINA
Workers celebrating a holiday in Buenos Aires, left no doubt about the popularity of President Peron. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
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""FULL AHEAD"" AT EARLS COURT
Nearly six hundred boats are on show at Earls Court. They range from the Coracle used by the ancient Britons, to a large boat costing £25,000. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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""TOPPING OUT"" THE TALLEST
Mr Norman Prichard Chairman of the LCC Housing Committee was present at the ""Topping Out"" ceremony of a 25 storey block of flats. The tallest in London, which will comprise 88 maisonettes and 52 flats. Disclaimer: British Movietone is...
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HIGH AND DRY
A piece of good news from the ship building industry, the completion of this new dry dock on the Tyne. It's 850 ft long and 145 ft wide at the entrance, it's capable of taking super tankers of 80,000 tons, and all but the largest of the...