Title:POOR QUALITY ROADS AFFECT VEHICLE MOVEMENT IN THE OVERLOON-VENRAIJ SECTOR OF 8TH CORPS FRONT (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 182-2
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Summary: Vehicles from 29th Armoured Brigade's HQ become bogged down along churned-up track leading to 11th Armoured Division's front Southwest of Venraij.
Description: An AFPU jeep ploughs its way through glutinous mud, only to become another bogged-down victim. Troops serving with the armoured brigade's headquarters try to free a Bedford MW 15-cwt truck by hitching a tow rope to an M5 half-track; other vehicles similarly immobilised can be seen in the background. The Bedford truck successfully emerges from the more. Nearby, signallers wrestle to free their M5 half-track from the mud. A Sherman tank from the 3rd RTR's 'A' squadron simultaneously takes in tow a Humber scout car and a jeep from the 11th Armoured Division's CMP provost company; the strain on the two rope between the scout car and the jeep proves too great and it snaps.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Laws, George E J1916-02-15 (Production individual)
