The Skyway Ambulance 1934

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Titles read: "The Skyway Ambulance."

Scotland.

Various shots of an air ambulance biplane taking off; good point of view shot as we rise off the ground and into the air. Aerial views as we fly over Glasgow and the River Clyde. We come in to land on the Western Islands. A patient on...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
51853
Sort Number:
PSP 830
Time in/Out:
01:04:11:00 / 01:06:46:00
Canister:
PSP 830
Film ID:
1626.04
Issue Date:
01/03/1934

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