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Title:TRAINING WITH CHURCHILL CROCODILE FLAMETHROWING TANKS (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 11-2
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Summary: Churchill Crocodile flame-throwing tanks are seen in action on a training ground in Eastwell Park, Ashford, in 141st Royal Armoured Corps' home-county, Kent.
Description: One such tank, called "Monty's Jalopy", has its four hundred gallon fuel trailer filled with FTF No 1, a glutinous petroleum flame mixture, from oildrums. The co-driver seated in the bows of the tank is seen pressing the flame-gun's trigger. A 'B' Squadron Crocodile demonstrates its cross-country ability when travelling over hilly woodland in the park. A troop of three Crocodiles goes through its paces, each tank firing quick, sixty-yard long bursts of flame which produce black oily smoke while moving at ten to fifteen miles per hour. The cameraman films from a Crocodile turret as flame shoots forward from its bow flame-projector, to send black smoke into his lens with the wind. Another drum of fuel mixture and nitrogen cylinders are collected for replenishing a Crocodile trailer. The camera studies the turret of a Churchill Crocodile and the 'Popeye' cartoons and names painted onto two 'B' Squadron tanks' radiator louvres.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Jones, H J [Army cameraman] (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Armoured Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Kent Regiment, East (The Buffs), 7th Battalion, Squadron B (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - funnies: Churchill Crocodile Mark VII (object name)
weapons, British - CBW: flame-thrower (object name)
training, British - specialist: tank (object name)
supplies, British, storage [RA] - pol: FTF no 1 flame liquid (object name)
GB, England & Ashford, Kent <Eastwell Park> (geography)