Shipping Notes - New Liner Test

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1408A

Date Released

31 May 1956

Date submitted

28 May 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Guards Memorial
2. 2King Feisal in Morocco
3. 3Malaya Command Changes
4. 4Shipping Notes - New Liner Test
5. 5Shipping Notes - Jap Whaler Here
6. 6Zero Hour at Bikini
7. 7England Routs Germany
8. *Lord High Commissioner in Glasgow

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Liner Tests. DESCRIPTION: At the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington - a wind tunnel test for the model of a new Orient liner. The ship a 40,000 tonner with a speed of 27 knots, should make the voyage to Australia in three weeks. SHOTLIST: National Physical Laboratory, Teddington (Research Building). Exterior of building. Propeller in building. Model. SCU of table. GV model on table. SCU model of ship. The new 40,000 ton Orient liner. Her aim to reach Australia in three weeks instead of four.

Keywords

Science and technology

Locations

Middlesex; Teddington

Card file number

67091

Credits:

Commentator

David Lewis Jacobs

Camera

Robert Turner

Length of story (in feet)

45

Story extras:

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