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Title:MPS VISIT TO AA COMMAND SITE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 371/2
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 arrives at the site. The party alighting from the coach. General Sir Frederick Pile greets the officers. The party going into and coming out of the conference room. Major-General R Whittaker walking towards the camera. A group of MPs. General Sir Frederick Pile. Two of the women gunners operating the spotter. Gunner Harrison of Fleetwood (a domestic servant in peacetime). Also Gunner Ward from Newcastle. An officer telephoning. Sir Frederick Pile leaving the Radio Location hut. First civilian is Sir Robert Bird, MP for West Wolverhampton, second civilian is Colonel Sir Ashton Pownall, MP for East Lewisham. Wearing macintosh is Noel Goldie, MP for Warrington. The group listen to an explanation of the 3.7-inch gun given by Major Simpson. Close-up of Noel Goldie, MP. Close-up of Sir Robert Bird, MP. Major Simpson pointing into the breech. The group listening to an explanation on the predictor. Don Frankel, MP for Mile End, Noel Goldie MP, Robert Bird MP and another MP. Close up of Major Kelsey explaining the predictor. A gun firing in the background with the grandstand and MPs in the foreground. Major Simpson explains the Bofors anti-aircraft gun to the party. The gun firing. The party standing by the Z gun listening to an explanation. The party in the shelter as the gun fires. The barrel of the gun. A group of officers watching.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Thompson, H A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Anti-Aircraft Command, Group 2, 554 Battery (regiment/service)
British Army, Auxiliary Territorial Service (regiment/service)
Keywords: Dovercourt, Essex, England, UK (geography)