Hovercraft 'laboratory' 1965

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Item title reads - Hovercraft 'laboratory'.

Hovercraft research centre opens testing tank. Southampton, Hampshire.

M/S as the HD.1 Hovercraft comes up on the beach at Hythe. L/S model in tank. Pan as the model comes along tank. M/S wave making machines. M/S as model passes through...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
55537
Sort Number:
65/061
Time in/Out:
01:56:08:00 / 01:57:35:00
Canister:
65/61
Film ID:
1812.34
Issue Date:
29/07/1965

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