Rugby Radio Station 1924

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Rugby, Warwickshire.

Title: "RUGBY RADIO STATION. Rapid progress is being made with Britain's biggest wireless Station".

L/S of an old farmhouse with a very tall radio mast next to it, tilt up to show length of mast.

Intertitle: "3,000 miles of wire are used in the stays...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
24762
Sort Number:
G 1147
Time in/Out:
01:25:48:00 / 01:28:06:00
Canister:
G 1147
Film ID:
366.17
Issue Date:
17/12/1924

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