SHELL-MEX ROAD SPRAYING
Series
- Series Name
- Gaumont Graphic
Issue
Story
- Summary
- NfO synopsis: Demonstration of a new type of road covering: Shell-Mex. A ‘Bristowe’s Patent Bitumen Sprayer’ covers road with tar(?), then broken bits of seashells(?) are spread across surface. Truck drives over surface to demonstrate its durability.
- Keywords
- Road transport; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- Newsfilm Online
- Library number GR
- 13385
- Length of story (in feet)
- 204
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Film clip
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Film Archive
- Name
- Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
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- Web
- http://reuters.screenocean.com/
- Phone
- +44(0)1954 262052
- Address
- 124 Horseferry Road,
London
SW1P 2TX - Notes
- British Pathe Ltd (qv) also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
- Series held
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