ROLL ONE - 150 ft. DOUBLE X.



MS Group of trainee mechanics being instructed on the replacement of a tractor engine cylinder head.



MCS Cutaway - faces, : MS Marrying engine and transmission units.



LS Trainees and their instructors gather and tractors. (Suggest as No.1. shot)



MCS Cylinder head being bolted down.



CU As above.



CU Instructor watches students tighten down cylinder head bolts.



MS As Above - repeated.



ROLL TWO - 150 ft. PLUS X.



MLS Line of tractors - a tractor is driven out of line R. to L.



MLS Tractors drives up ramp onto lorry.



MCS Driving on to lorry.



MCS Destination is written on tractor wheel.



MLS to Distant Shot - Large tractor is driven out of workshop after assembly.



MLS to Repeat of above.



DS



ROLL THREE - 100 ft. DOUBLE X.



MS Assembly of large tractor in workshop - tractor mudguard is brought R. to L.



MCS Mudguard is fixed into place.



CS Workers faces.



CU Fixing mudguard.



MS Piece of packing cases which contained parts from which tractors have been assembled.



ROLL FOUR - 40 ft. DOUBLE X.



CU Student turns starter switch.



PS Tractor is started up by student - bursts into life - exhaust smoke and vibration. Students demonstrate their pleasure at success.




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(Students who were fitting cylinder head have now finished and the tractor engine is started).

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Background: 'Operation Tractor', part of Zambia's Transitional Development Plan is beginning to take shape.The scheme is for the benefit of settlement schemes throughout the provinces of Zambia.Before the month of august delivery of about 150 tractors is expected.Operated by the Zambian Ministry of Agriculture in conjunction with the Ministry tractors, and instruction is now ell advanced under Ministry of Agriculture experts.

At this stage is a pilot scheme, the introduction of tractors to the rural areas will be closely watched.Depending on the evaluation of this pilot scheme future scheme on a large scale will follow.

Officers instructing are, Mr.King, Senior Technical Officer, Mechanical Workshops (drives tractor from line), Mr.Gillette, Transport Officer, Mechanical Workshops (writes destination of tyre), and Mr.John Goodfellow Mechanical Inspector in charge of assembly of the large tractors (he drives large tractor from workshop).Seen lifting on tractor engine cylinder head is Mr.Andrew Mubanga, Assistant Instructor.

Assembly of the larger and small tractors is carried out at Mechanical Workshops - tractor parts are delivered in crates.Mechanical Workshops students are being trained in this assembly work, and it is this that the item is designed to show.