Summary: Southern Railway workshop activities during the Second World War.
Description: Reel 1 (1091 ft): "Landing of troops from Dunkirk at Dover" - troops disembarking and on train; "Bomb damage at running shed" - wrecked locomotive, clearing up; "MLC type landing craft" - construction, transportation and launching; "Assault landing craft" - construction (timber and steel plate), fitting out, leaving workshop; "Harbour launches" - construction (women workers), installation of engine, leaving workshop by rail; "LCSM and LCP landing craft" - construction, leaving workshop by rail, launching; "Fast motor boats" - women working on inverted boat, leaving by rail; "Repair and modification of guns and howitzers"; "Two pounder anti-tank gun barrels" - lathe work etc, barrels laid out in yard.
Reel 2 (1048 ft): "Pillar box rocket guns" - testing elevation of rocket launcher; "Scissor bridge layer equipment" - field test of scissor bridge; "Tank ramp wagons" - Sherman tank driven down from flat car; "1000 wagons built and delivered in ten weeks" - rail wagon parts; "Components for fifty wagons were dispatched in each shipment" - loading parts, train leaving; "Tail unit of Horsa gliders" - woodwork, fabric fitting, completed units; "The fitting of USA locomotives" - work on locomotives, locomotive leaving shed; "New 'West Country' Class locomotive leaving works" - locomotive steaming out of shed.
Production Details: Southern Railway Film Unit (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: SOUTHERN RAILWAY (regiment/service)
Keywords: buildings, British - commercial: engine shed & [damaged] (object name)
destruction, British military - area: bomb (object name)
equipment, British military - engineering: scissor bridge (object name)
industry, British - aircraft (object name)
industry, British - ships (object name)
operations, British military - maintenance: guns (object name)
operations, British military - movement (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: landing craft (object name)
transport, British civilian - rail: locomotive, West Country Class (object name)
transport, British military - rail: tank ramp wagon (object name)
Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, UK (geography)
Dover, Kent, England, UK (geography)
