Mini Vans To Help Motorists 1963

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Woodcote Park, London.

GV. Pan, fifty or sixty mini vans lined up round a pond in front of the R.A.C. Country Club. SV. One of the vans with patrol man standing beside it. SV. & GV. Mr Wilfred Andrews, Chairman of the R.A.C. making a speech. SV. Mr Andrews hands cheque to Mr Harriman, Chairman...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
54778
Sort Number:
63/073
Time in/Out:
01:00:15:00 / 01:01:15:00
Canister:
63/73
Film ID:
1774.01
Issue Date:
09/09/1963

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