Item title reads - Princess Elizabeth in Scotland.
Glasgow, Scotland.
M/S pan royal car arriving with Lord Provost and Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), she waves out of car. Various shots people lining roadway and laughing. M/S sign 'Exhibition of Industrial Power'....
Item title reads - Princess Elizabeth in Scotland.
Glasgow, Scotland.
M/S pan royal car arriving with Lord Provost and Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), she waves out of car. Various shots people lining roadway and laughing. M/S sign 'Exhibition of Industrial Power'. L/S Princess shaking hands with Scottish Provosts in Kelvin Hall introduced by Tom Johnston, Chairman of the Scottish Festival Committee. M/S Provosts. L/S and M/S as Lord Provost gets up and makes speech welcoming the Princess who is sat beside him.
M/S fountains playing on glass roof over stairway. M/S large diesel engine. M/S Princess alighting from cage in coal mine replica. M/S passage on wall describing mining conditions 100 years previously. M/S Princess looking at statue of women in coal mine. C/U woman hauling truck in mine. M/S tableau depicting mine cave-in. M/S Princess looking at demonstration of hydraulic pit prop. C/U miner operating hydraulic pit prop. M/S's Princess looking at model of Loch Sloy hydroelectric plant. Nearer shot model of hydro plant. C/U giant insulators. M/S Princess talking to men wounded in Korea. C/U Princess talking to wounded man in Cowglen hospital. M/S pan Princess walking up to another wounded man and speaking to him.
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