B.E.A. Chief Gets Tough 1955

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London Airport.

GV. London Airport. GV. B.E.A. (British European Airways) workshops. GV. London Airport planes in foreground. SV. & CU. Elizabethan class airliner reviving up. SV. B.E.A. workshops (exterior). GV. Interior, workshops (2 shots). GVP. Along aircraft in workshop. British European...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
30381
Sort Number:
55/003
Time in/Out:
01:03:18:00 / 01:05:03:00
Canister:
55/3
Film ID:
501.05
Issue Date:
10/01/1955

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