Title:INAUGURAL CEREMONY FORD EMERGENCY FOOD VANS 16TH SEPTEMBER 1941 [Main Title]
Film Number:FWR 5
Other titles:FORD FILM WAR RECORD [Series Title]
Summary: Presentation ceremony of 350 Ford mobile canteens in the courtyard of Mansion House, London.
Description: Edited, mute film with intertitles shows a line of mobile canteen vans each marked with a location (Shoreditch, Islington, Newcastle etc) parked outside Mansion House. Sir George Wilkinson, Lord Mayor of London, in a speech made from a podium adorned with the British and US flags (in the background a bomb damaged area), accepts the mobile canteen vans from the Right Honourable Lord Perry, Chairman of the Ford Motor Company, in lieu of Mr Henry Ford and Mr Edsel B Ford. A van is unlocked and inspected, soup(?) is doled out to the VIPs and to others and a long line of the vans with their crews is inspected. The King and Queen arrive to spend much time viewing the vans and meeting the crews before departing by car.
Alternative Title:FORD FILM WAR RECORD [Series Title]
Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:FWR 5
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1941-09
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Ford Motor Company (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords:
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 796 ft; Running time: 9 mins
