Title:RASC TRANSPORT COMPANIES IN SERVICE IN NO 8 ARMY ROADHEAD IN NORTHERN BELGIUM (PART 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 195-3
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Summary: To alleviate 21st Army Group's supply problem, a tank transporter unit becomes a long-distance freight-haulage company.
Description: The cameramen film from an M19 Diamond T Tank transporter travelling in convoy with other transporters from 451st Tank Transporter Company RASC delivering ammunition on their modified 40-ton Rodgers M9 trailers to No. 8 Army Roadhead. A driver checks the pressure on the tyres on a Rodgers trailer and climbs back into the cab (two takes). The cameramen record the convoy's progress towards its destination and observe his own transporter crew cooking a meal over primus cookers during a half by the roadside; Mack EH 5-ton and Bedford OY 3-ton lorries, despatch riders and a donkey-drawn coal cart are among the traffic seen on the road. At a dump on the Hasselt-Hechtel road, the M19 transporters have their cargoes (25-pounder ammunition) stockpiled by the roadside; a Churchill Bridgelayer on another tank transporter passes by. AFV and field artillery ammunition is seen stacked in numbered bays along the road; signs in and around Helchteren warn of the presence of the ammunition dump and ban double-banking by traffic on the road.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Jones, H J [Army cameraman] (Production individual)
Palmer, F A W (Production individual)
