Tests Before "Bluebird" Trials

Series

Series Name
Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.
54/82
Date Released
21 Oct 1954
Date covered
12 Oct 1954
Length of issue (in feet)
674
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Miss World
  2. 2Holland’s Worst Post-War Fire
  3. 3Tests Before "Bluebird" Trials
  4. 4Helicopter Pipe-Lift
  5. 5Haile Selassie At Guildhall
  6. 6Britain’s Cars On Parade
  7. *Cardiff - Scotland 1, Wales 0

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 6
Summary
Donald Campbell tests an underwater escape apparatus before making a world water speed record bid
Keywords
Ships and boats; Records
Locations
Surbiton
Credits:
Camera
Norman William Roper
Camera
Robert Kenneth Leslie Gordon
Length of story (in feet)
95
Story extras:
Film clip
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British Pathe Ltd
Email
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Web
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Phone
0207 665 8340
Address
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Notes
Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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