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Towards 100% 1937
Description
Titles read: "TOWARDS 100%".
London.
At the London Efficiency Exhibition we see a woman operating a machine that opens 500 letters a minute. Another machine signs 3,000 cheques an hour. Yet another machine makes out cheques and crosses them. A lady feeds letters into an envelope-sealing...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 40137
- Sort Number:
- PT 402
- Time in/Out:
- 02:00:12:00 / 02:01:46:00
- Canister:
- PT 402
- Film ID:
- 1160.28
- Issue Date:
- 06/12/1937
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