Title:VISIT OF MPS AND GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING ANTI-AIRCRAFT COMMAND TO ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNSITES [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 371/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of Parliament visit the Anti-Aircraft Command site at Dovercourt, Essex and see demonstrations by the mixed 554 Battery of Group 2 of Anti-Aircraft Command.
Description: The coach carrying the MPs arrives at Dovercourt in the rain, preceded by a car. The party attends a demonstration of the latest searchlight equipment. Four MPs crossing a wooden bridge, going to the Heavy Anti-Aircraft gunsite having lunched in the marquee, visible in the background. The officer in the foreground is Major-General R F E Whittaker. Mrs Adamson, MP for Dartford, crossing the same bridge. A group listening to an explanation of the workings of the 3. 7-inch heavy anti-aircraft gun by Major R A Simmonds. Brigadier-General H N Scott-Robson, Commander of the 6th Anti-Aircraft Brigade, stands with the visitors. The group listening to Major Simmonds explaining the role of light anti-aircraft guns. Major General Whittaker is by the rope barrier. A Bofors gun with a stiffkey stick mounted on it. The party listening to an explanation of the Z gun. Sir Robert Tasker and Viscount Hinchingbrooke examine a round of ammunition. Party walking under camouflage. Officers getting onto a bus. The bus in the grounds. MPs leaving the bus. ATS girls observing with binoculars and a rangefinder. An officer on the telephone. Civilians and officers. A party watching a gun demonstration. Man operating a searchlight. Civilians talking to an officer. ATS girls working a predictor. An officer talking to the ATS girls and inspecting the instrument. A crowd watching a gun demonstration. A nurse attending a casualty. Officers entering a car and the car moving off. Men operating a searchlight. ATS girls operating a predictor. An officer talking to civilians. Men at a gun. MPs watching as guns are fired. An officer talking to a group. Loading a gun and rocket guns firing. Officers walking across a wooden bridge.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Evans (Lieutenant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Anti-Aircraft Command, Group 2, 554 Battery (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 6th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (regiment/service)
Keywords: Dovercourt, Essex, England, UK (geography)
