Bricks By The Million! 1935

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Titles read: 'BRICKS By the Million!'

Various locations of events.

At a brickworks near Peterborough (England) we see men at work in the pits where the clay is scooped up by digging machines (bulldozer type excavators). Young men unload the finished bricks from machines in the factory....

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
52235
Sort Number:
PSP 915
Time in/Out:
01:44:41:00 / 01:46:42:00
Canister:
PSP 915
Film ID:
1650.23
Issue Date:
17/10/1935

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