SURVIVAL LIFE JACKET TRIALS AT STEVENAGE [Allocated Title]

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  • 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:
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • 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)
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  • 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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