Ride an Air-Cushion
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ride An Air-Cushion. DESCRIPTION: It’s the Westland SRN2 again for the first public demonstration over the Solent. Mr Peter Lamb, Chief Test Pilot for Saunders Roe was at the controls, and it wasn’t long before the latest Hoverbus was bidding up to 60 miles an hour. She can carry up to 66 passengers, and the verdict, a very comfortable ride, with no more than slight pitch and roll. A number of American Naval experts were on this trip. So was the hovercraft’s designer. SHOTLIST: Hovercraft. MLS hovercraft takes off. MS hovercraft on the Solent. CU pan man at controls. People in hovercraft. MS the hovercraft comes off water onto land. MS hovercraft off land onto water. This is the SRN2 Westland Hovercraft.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Transport
- Locations
- Southampton; Solent
- Footage sources
- Movietone
- Card file number
- 84562
- Credits:
-
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 129
-
Film clip
• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- AP Archive
- info@aparchive.com
- Web
- http://www.movietone.com
- Phone
- +44 (0)20 7482 7482
- Series held
- View all series held by AP Archive
Record Stats
This record has been viewed 159 times.