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  1. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    5 Oct 1969
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    69/81
    NoS ID
    113797
    Story no
    1 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Concorde 001 successfully penetrated the sound barrier. The test flight at 715 mph went without a hitch.

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  2. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    5 Oct 1969
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    69/81
    NoS ID
    113798
    Story no
    2 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Father John Milne, a 59-year-old parish priest, claims to be Britain’s only Reverend gentleman with a glider pilots licence.

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  3. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    5 Oct 1969
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    69/81
    NoS ID
    113799
    Story no
    3 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    The screams of jet engines from airliners landing and leaving near-by Heathrow Airport upset four newly arrived elephants. The answer was found - elephant-sized ear muffs!

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  4. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    5 Oct 1969
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    69/81
    NoS ID
    113800
    Story no
    4 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    The punters turned out in force for what was claimed to be Europe’s first camel race. They had a good day - the favourite won by a long neck.

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  5. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    5 Oct 1969
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    69/81
    NoS ID
    113801
    Story no
    5 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    400,000 volt live power lines are no longer a deterrent to line-men of the Electricity Board. A specially developed safety unit allows them to work while the current flows.

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  6. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    5 Oct 1969
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    69/81
    NoS ID
    113802
    Story no
    6 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    The Business Efficiency Exhibition boasted gadgets galore to get offices ticking over at hitherto undreamed of speeds.

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  7. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    5 Oct 1969
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    69/81
    NoS ID
    113803
    Story no
    7 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    The weather is big business for a British firm which specialises in building automatic receiving stations for pictures from weather satellites.

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  8. Technicolor - "Special"

    Date released
    5 Oct 1969
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    69/81
    NoS ID
    113804
    Story no
    8 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    has entered the space age of telecommunications with a £2-million-plus satellite earth station. A big dish aerial and complex electronic equipment has brought eight distant nations into instant visual and...

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