New Lift for Export

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1813

Date Released

2 Mar 1964

Date submitted

25 Feb 1964

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Table Tennis - English Open Championships
2. 2Foot-Slogging Fusiliers
3. 3New Lift for Export
4. 4Giovanna’s Going Places
5. 5Focus on Youth

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Lift for Export. DESCRIPTION: In a factory at Leighton Buzzard a new lift has been designed for heavy industries like foundries, shipyards and steelworks. Called a side loader, it has hydraulic legs to support it while lifting its load. It can lift loads of up to twenty five tons, twenty four feet off the ground. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV truck lifting bus. MCU operator in cabin. CU same. CU hydraulic legs. GV bus drives up to side of truck. MCU operator in cabin. TS forks move underneath bus. CU same. GV bus lifted onto truck. LAS same. CU onlookers. LAS bus onto truck’s platform. CU same down onto platform. GV truck drives off with bus on platform.

Keywords

Vehicles; Industry and manufacture

Locations

Leighton Buzzard

Card file number

87983

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

98

Story extras:

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