Behind The News - Air Speed Record - Inside… 1946

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Item title reads - Behind the news. Air speed record - the inside story.

Derwent, Cumbria. Farnborough, Hampshire.

L/S of a jet plane streaking across the sky at 600 miles per hour during a practice run. Various good shots of the machines and men in the Rolls Royce Merlin factory at...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45838
Sort Number:
46/069
Time in/Out:
01:31:00:00 / 01:33:30:00
Canister:
46/69
Film ID:
1408.22
Issue Date:
29/08/1946

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