SURVIVAL LIFE JACKET TRIALS AT STEVENAGE [Allocated Title]

Title: SURVIVAL LIFE JACKET TRIALS AT STEVENAGE [Allocated Title]
Film Number: 41K 38
Other titles: IRVIN PARACHUTE RESEARCH [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Swimming pool trials of BSI approved survival life jackets. Life jackets tested by Irvin employee John Pragnell.
Description:
Featured Period: 1945-1975
Production Date: 1970-03
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Irvin Parachute Company (Sponsor)
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Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent
Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 100 ft (ca)
Notes: Remarks: film/can marked with Irvin reference number MIS 135. John Pragnell assisted the IWM in sorting the Irvin collection when it was acquired in 1990. One can contains reels 1 and 2 and shows trials of a life jacket of the type used on commercial aircraft as well as an improved version. Other cans are incomplete and contain reel 2 only. Series continuity: there are no films held under the numbers 41K 39 and 41K 40.
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