Tractors And More Tractors 1940

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Full title reads: "Tractors and More Tractors".

VS. of the Minister of Agriculture and Lord Perry inspecting a line of new farm tractors that have been produced at the Ford plant.

MS. of the Minister (presumably Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith) talking to Lord Perry about the need for tractors....

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20741
Sort Number:
40/034
Time in/Out:
01:05:09:00 / 01:05:53:00
Canister:
40/34
Film ID:
1043.07
Issue Date:
25/04/1940

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