Private Flying Again 1946

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Title reads: "Private Flying Again".

Cardiff, Wales.

Air Taxi service opened to operate between Cardiff and Bristol. Various shots of ground crew loading parcels onto Auster Mark V aeroplane. George Thomas, MP for Cardiff gives speech from airfield: "Today the ban on civil aviation...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44934
Sort Number:
46/002
Time in/Out:
01:07:36:00 / 01:09:11:00
Canister:
46/2
Film ID:
1372.07
Issue Date:
07/01/1946

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