Getting Ready For The Grand Manoeuvres 1925

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Item title reads - Getting ready for the great manoeuvres. Tanks - greatly improved and much speedier than those used in Great War - go into action. Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.

L/S as tanks proceed along the plain in a line, they pass the camera.

Missing intertitle - 'Tractors -...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
19701
Sort Number:
G 1223
Time in/Out:
01:51:42:00 / 01:53:02:00
Canister:
G 1223
Film ID:
414.31
Issue Date:
10/09/1925

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