THE WORK OF THE ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS IN THE FIELD [Allocated Title]
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- Title: THE WORK OF THE ROYAL ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS IN THE FIELD [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: AYY 343/1
- Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Summary: The 6th Division Second Armoured Corps workshops at Le Kef, Tunisia, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel J Pickin. The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers repair damaged Armoured Fighting Vehicles.
- Description: A Scammell backing up to a Crusader tank engine. The engine is lifted by a Scammell winch. Men working in the mud. View of a tank in the distance taken from the top of the Scammell. The engine suspended from the winch. The empty tank engine compartment. The engine moves into the picture from the left until it is over the engine compartment. The engine is lowered. The Scammell driver operates the hand winch until the engine is in the tank. The Royal Army Ordnance Corps Field Park with tank tracks piled at the side of the road. Bren carrier tracks at the Field Park stores. Tank engines in boxes. Men working on a Crusader tank, a Reconnaissance car and another tank. Reconnaissance cars being repaired. Craftsman Batterbury from Liverpool working on a Boley watchmaker's lathe in the Instrument Repair Shop. Craftsman Lagdon from Benfleet fits a balance staff, hairspring and wheel into a watch. Lance-Corporal Telford of Keswick assembles a watch. Close-up of a watchmaker's tool set, a hand removes a chuck and the camera swings to the lathe. Sergeant Kelly from Surbiton at work on binoculars. The sign for the blacksmith's shop. A craftsman places a job in the forge. Another craftsman comes to help at the forge. A craftsman removes the job with tongs and carries it to an anvil where others draw it out to size. Craftsmen working on a Crusader tank in the welding shop. Craftsman Taylor from Warrington welding. A pair of legs sticking out from under the tank. Taylor walks to the front of the tank for another welding job. Sergeant Randall from Chatham using an oxy-acetylene torch. A Besa gun is handed from a Crusader turret down to a sergeant on the ground, who carries it away. He takes it to the workshop and lays it on a table, explaining the fault to an officer. An armourer working on a Browning gun. Another armourer examines a Tommy gun. An armourer walks in with the repaired Besa and hands it to another craftsman on the tank who passes it into the tank turret. The Corps Delivery Squadron on the firing range. A Besa gun alongside a 6 pounder in a Crusader tank being elevated and depressed. The 6 pounder is fired on the testing range. Crusader tanks passing. A smokescreen being laid from 3-inch Howitzers. A Valentine tank in the foreground. A smokescreen is emitted from a smoke generator. A Valentine and a Crusader tank pass. A Liberty tank engine in the engine shop. A mechanic calls a corporal who calls for another tool from the stores lorry. The mechanic signs for the tool in the stores lorry. A tank transporter moves through an olive grove onto the road. A Crusader tank moves onto a tank transporter, which moves along the road. Craftsman Newman from London goes to the Instrument Repair Shop where he hands a card and a pair of binoculars to Sergeant Kelly. Sergeant Kelly takes the card and binoculars and moves to the workshops shelter. He places the binoculars on a stand. A repaired Crusader tank moves out from under trees and climbs up onto the road. An Arab appears in the scene.
- Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Colour: B&W
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- Object_Number: AYY 343/1
- Sound: Silent
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1943-02-12
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Radford, John H. B. (Sergeant) (Production individual)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (regiment/service)
- Keywords: Tunisia (geography) North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1194 ft; Running time: 12 mins
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