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by Media ArchiveOctober 11, 2023
🎬British Movietone - Heavy rain caused the streets of Cowes, Isle of Wight, to be flooded, but it did not deter yachtsmen like Prince Charles from braving the swells of the Solent.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
1225 Views
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by Media ArchiveOctober 11, 2023
🎬British Movietone - New RAF power boats at Hythe.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
1136 Views
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by Media ArchiveOctober 11, 2023
🎬British Movietone - Southern Railway have converted Refreshment Cars into Snack Bars. Train pulls out of station. CU Refreshment Car on side of carriage. Interior - passenger at bar being served with whisky and sandwiches, also other passenger having drinks brought to them at their seats. Shots of people seated in carriage drinking.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
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by Media ArchiveOctober 11, 2023
🎬British Movietone - It's the Westland SRN2 again for the first public demonstration over the Solent. Mr Peter Lamb, Chief Test Pilot for Saunders Roe was at the controls, and it wasn't long before the latest "Hoverbus" was bidding up to 60 miles an hour. She can carry up to 66 passengers, and the verdict, a very comfortable ride, with no more than slight pitch and roll. A number of American Naval experts were on this trip. So was the hovercraft's designer.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
1079 Views
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by Media ArchiveOctober 14, 2023
🎬British Movietone - At Hythe by Southampton Water a full scale experiment is underway - Development Engineer Anthony Plunkett takes control of a rather ungainly contraption. Although it weighs three tons, air pressure raises it half an inch off the ground, allowing it to be pushed along with one finger. Enclose it in a aerodynamic shell and you have a hovertrain which could travel at a comfortable 200 mph.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
1155 Views
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by Media ArchiveOctober 11, 2023
🎬British Movietone - DATE UNKNOWN - NO SOUND - General views of various parts of Cathedral. Spires - Main Doors - Turrets etc. Across lawns - through trees. General scenes are mostly without persons.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
1226 Views
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🎬British Movietone - Heavy rain caused the streets of Cowes, Isle of Wight, to be flooded, but it did not deter yachtsmen like Prince Charles from braving the swells of the Solent.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
🎬British Movietone - New RAF power boats at Hythe.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
🎬British Movietone - Southern Railway have converted Refreshment Cars into Snack Bars. Train pulls out of station. CU Refreshment Car on side of carriage. Interior - passenger at bar being served with whisky and sandwiches, also other passenger having drinks brought to them at their seats. Shots of people seated in carriage drinking.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
🎬British Movietone - It's the Westland SRN2 again for the first public demonstration over the Solent. Mr Peter Lamb, Chief Test Pilot for Saunders Roe was at the controls, and it wasn't long before the latest "Hoverbus" was bidding up to 60 miles an hour. She can carry up to 66 passengers, and the verdict, a very comfortable ride, with no more than slight pitch and roll. A number of American Naval experts were on this trip. So was the hovercraft's designer.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
🎬British Movietone - At Hythe by Southampton Water a full scale experiment is underway - Development Engineer Anthony Plunkett takes control of a rather ungainly contraption. Although it weighs three tons, air pressure raises it half an inch off the ground, allowing it to be pushed along with one finger. Enclose it in a aerodynamic shell and you have a hovertrain which could travel at a comfortable 200 mph.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
🎬British Movietone - DATE UNKNOWN - NO SOUND - General views of various parts of Cathedral. Spires - Main Doors - Turrets etc. Across lawns - through trees. General scenes are mostly without persons.
British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.