An Aerial Ambulance 1924

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Southampton, Hampshire.

Title: "AN AERIAL AMBULANCE successfully tried ... it will transport cases to Hospital in 2 hrs. in British Guiana that previously took 17 days by land".

M/S of a man on a stretcher being lifted into the cockpit of an aeroplane using a pulley system. M/S of...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
24670
Sort Number:
G 1129
Time in/Out:
01:48:46:00 / 01:50:13:00
Canister:
G 1129
Film ID:
358.27
Issue Date:
20/10/1924

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  • "man on a stretcher being lifted into the cockpit of an aeroplane" - it's a Fairey IIID seaplane, Reg. No. G-EBKE.

    jamied 19th Jan 2013

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