Title:UNIVERSAL NEWS - WOMEN TAKE OVER BOAT BUILDING [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 241-12
Other titles:BRITISH POWER BOAT COMPANY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Edited newsreel footage of women workers at the British Power Boat Company factory at Marchwood Park, Hampshire.
Description: Female workers walking around a driveway in front of a pillared doorway. Interior shots of the women workers undertaking various jobs in the machine shop under instruction from a male foreman - filing, cleaning and welding. Shots of the drafting room, including women working on technical drawings. 70 foot motor torpedo boat (MTB) under construction. Women workers putting nails/screws into the decking boards. Wide shot of women and men working on the supporting struts of the boats hull, spraying of the interior of the hull, drilling holes and smoothing the hull's exterior. Shots of a completed 70 foot MTB number 147 in the Solent.
Alternative Title:BRITISH POWER BOAT COMPANY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 241-12
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1941-01-20
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Universal News (Production sponsor)
Universal News (Production company)