Title:ROAD CLEARANCE, CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR IN NORMANDY (PART 7) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 63-9
Other titles:
Summary: Demolition work in the Juaye-Mondaye area.
Description: The RB-10 excavator attached to 295th Field Company Royal Engineers deposits rubble from demolished buildings into Dennis tipper lorries belonging to a 30th Corps Royal Army Service Corps unit. The excavator's driver is seen at his controls. The 149th Assault Park Squadron RE armoured bulldozer uses its cable winch to tear buildings down. Also engaged in demolition and road- clearance work is an non-armoured bulldozer belonging to a Canadian Army sapper unit. Vehicles belonging to various units in the 7th Armoured Division can be seen in the background travelling through Juaye-Mondaye.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Carpenter, L (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div, Armoured, 7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers, Field Coy 295 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Engineers (regiment/service)
Keywords: engineering, military, British: road building (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Dennis tipper truck (object name)
armour, British - funnies: armoured bulldozer (object name)
transport, British military - engineering: RB-10 excavator (object name)
transport, Canadian military - engineering: bulldozer (object name)
demolition, Canadian military - obsolescence (object name)
demolition, British military - obsolescence (object name)
Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 1/7/1944 (event)
Juaye-Mondaye, Calvados, France (geography)
