Car Dump 1943

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Car dump.

Crystal Palace, London.

Camera pans across cast-off Government cars at Crystal Palace waiting to go for salvage. Various shots of tyres and scrap metal. A steamroller flattens the metal. M/S as a woman worker puts on gloves made from old car upholstery. Various shots as the...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50207
Sort Number:
NSP 377
Time in/Out:
01:04:19:00 / 01:05:13:00
Canister:
NSP 377
Film ID:
1564.03
Issue Date:
21/06/1943

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