Title:LOADING SHELLS; AIRSCREWS ON TRAIN; CAMOUFLAGING POWER STATION [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BTF 223
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: I. Two workers stack shells in four wheeled railway wagon, with and without the aid of a lifting device.
II. Large triangular packing cases, presumably containing aircraft propellers, lowered into specially adapted railway trucks.
III. Shots of a long low building.
IV. Lorry being loaded with shell cases(?) from a railway wagon.
V. General view of Stonebridge Park power station (LMS Railway DC power supply). Model of the same power station with camouflage painted on. Various shots of men painting real power station in the same fashion - 'terraced houses' along one wall, patterns on the two chimneys, fields and a house on the cooling tower. General view of the power station before and after painting.
Production Details: London Midland and Scottish Railway Film Unit (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: London Midland and Scottish Railway (regiment/service)
Keywords: buildings, British - commercial: power station (object name)
defences, British - passive: power station (camouflaged) (object name)
society, British - precautionary: Air Raid Precautions (object name)
supplies, British, movement [RA] - munitions: rail (object name)
transport, British civilian - rail (object name)
GB, England & London, NW <Stonebridge Park Power Station> (geography)
