Volunteer Emergency Service

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

637

Date Released

9 Mar 1967

Date recorded

17 Feb 1967

Length of issue (in feet)

678

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Fun Car
2. 2Volunteer Emergency Service
3. 3Ton-Up Tots

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: ... far less anti-social than those noisy motor-bikes that teenagers drive around. Or is it? More and more of them have joined the new Volunteer Emergency Service, the rip-roaring kids who carry blood plasma, drugs, documents and medical specimens between clinics and hospitals, day or night. These are the ton-up youngsters who are making us re-asses out attitudes to the noisy motor-bikes that seem such a symbol of teenage disruption. But you don’t wait until you’re adolescent ...

Keywords

Health and medicine; Social welfare; Youth

Written sources

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Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

318

Story extras:

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