SWISS ROLL TRIALS - PART TWO [Main Title]

Log in to create clips, download free screeners and save clips/films in Collections. Click here to find out more.


  • Title: SWISS ROLL TRIALS - PART TWO [Main Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 1096
  • Other titles: INVASION EQUIPMENT TRIALS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Trials of the Swiss Roll floating roadway at Portsmouth Dockyard, September - November 1942
  • Description: Duplication of many scenes in film ref ADM 1095.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1942
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords:
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 767 ft; Running time: 8 mins
  • HD Media:
  • Notes: Summary: see catalogue entry for film ref ADM 1095. The opening captions give the dimension of the Swiss Roll floating roadway - length 212 ft, width 20 ft, width of roadway 7 ft 2" and weight 18 tons. The caption on the film ref ADM 1095 refers to the floating roadway as the mat. The roadway is of lightweight slatted wood construction.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ADM 1096

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ADM 1095 (SWISS ROLL TRIALS - PART ONE [Main Title])
Register