Hampshire. High Speed Bridge Building

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

783-2

Date Released

30 Aug 1926

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Mrs Corson’s Triumph
2. 2Hampshire. High Speed Bridge Building
3. 3HM King Carnival!
4. 4Mounted Sports
5. 5Thrilling and Speedy
6. 6From Shadow to Sunshine
7. *Duchess of York
8. *Donkey Derby
9. *Great Ebor Handicap

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Rivers spanned in record time by Royal Engineers." Long shot of rural scene. Men approach river with bridge-building materials. Man floats across on front portion of bridge. Pontoon-style bridge in place. Men in waders in river. Men raising part of new larger bridge. Construction work in and out of river. Positioning supports. Work beneath bridge. General shots of action, some men in uniform. Shot down river on men crossing first bridge.

Keywords

Military

Length of story (in feet)

75

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