Tractor School

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

084

Date Released

6 Aug 1956

Length of issue (in feet)

756

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Tractor School
2. 2Nylon Testing
3. 3Tennis Styles - in Play and Fashions
4. 4Baby Wallaby

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

Pathe synopsis: A look behind the scenes at a school in Feltham, Middlesex, for the men who operate the giant tractor shovels on large building sites and airfields under consstruction. As one of these monsters in a normal working day can do the work of 400 men, it is essential that the operator be in 100 per cent. control. Apart from the risk of serious accidents, it’s remarkably easy to damage the comparatively delicate mechanism through bad handling.

Researcher Comments

Title on British Pathe online database reads "Tractor Bulldozer School".

Keywords

Education and training; Motor vehicles

Locations

England; Middlesex; Feltham

Written sources

British Pathe online database
Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Peter West

Length of story (in feet)

240

Story extras:

Film clip

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