Hover Platform 1969

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Hover platform. Heathrow Airport.

Top shot. tractor towing Hover platform at London Airport. Platform is loaded with concrete blocks. SV Concrete blocks being unloaded from platform by crane. SV Showing engine. Pan across to show Hover platform loaded with people. CU Man starting the platform....

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
57640
Sort Number:
69/100
Time in/Out:
01:37:12:00 / 01:37:58:00
Canister:
69/100
Film ID:
2235.23
Issue Date:
11/12/1969

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