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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

845

Title

MODEL PROCEDURE FOR WATER-RELAYING [EXTRACT]

Producer

Shell Film Unit for Ministry of Information/National Fire Service

Date

1943

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

sound

Running Time

12 mins 02 secs

Description

A wartime fire service information film - hose relay vehicles fill up at a riverside; hose piping (6000 ft per vehicle) is laid along the streets - firemen run after the vehicles and straighten the piping; a burning building at night - close up of gauges on a Coventry Climax -fire engine; problems of burst pipes and low pressure.

 

 



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