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Series
- Series Name
- Cinegazette
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 7
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: A brief history of the bus from the 1829 Shillibeer model (displayed with an actor and horses), via a knife-board with a shire horse to a 1947 petrol bus - the RT3. A new eight-foot wide skeleton for the RT is then shown being tested on the road.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Transport; Horses; Motor vehicles; Road transport; History and archaeology
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
Viewing Copy - London Transport Museum Used for synopsis
British Transport Films website
Film User Vol.2 No.26 December 1948, p704.
- Credits:
-
- Producer
- Academy Picture Corporation
- Sponsor
- London Transport Executive
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- London’s Transport Museum
- simon.murphy@ltmuseum.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk
- Phone
- 020 7379 6344
- Fax
- 020 7565 7254
- Address
- 39 Wellington Street
Covent Garden
London WC2E 7BB - Series held
- View all series held by London’s Transport Museum
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk - Web
- http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
- Series held
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
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