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Hellifield - Train Snow Ploughs 1938
Description
Item title reads - Hellifield.
Snow plough attached onto a train. Yorkshire (?).
M/S of a train engine, various shots as men fit a snow plough to the front. M/S as it drives along towards the camera.
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Emma
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 17862
- Sort Number:
- 38/070
- Time in/Out:
- 01:13:09:00 / 01:13:27:00
- Canister:
- 38/70
- Film ID:
- 979.14
- Issue Date:
- 01/09/1938
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