Other titles:INVASION EQUIPMENT TRIALS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Trial of artificial roadway over sand.
Description: Opening sequence shows a series of vehicles climbing unassisted over a soft sand dune - jeep, M3 SPG, Universal carrier, which fails in the attempt, and a Sherman tank. Traffic carpet is then laid over the slope, and the experiment repeated with an Austin light utility, carrier, Dodge command car, M3, a civilian 4x2 3-ton lorry and a jeep, which both fail, and a Sherman. CU of the carpet shows the damage done by tracked vehicles. The trials are then repeated on a gentler sand slope, and over loose shingle - in this last trial, a Humber scout car is added to the test vehicles. A final experiment has vehicles running along a track made up of lengths of traffic carpet, chespaling and Somerfeldt, laid over shingle - the chespaling seems to suffer the greatest damage.
Alternative Title:INVASION EQUIPMENT TRIALS [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Combined Operations Headquarters (Production sponsor)
US Naval Film Unit (Production company)
Office of Strategic Services (for) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: transport, British military - car: Austin light utility (object name)
armour, United States - halftrack: M3 75mm Gun & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Humber scout car (object name)
armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
engineering, military, British - Mulberry: traffic carpet (object name)
engineering, military, British - Mulberry: chespaling track (object name)
engineering, military, British - Mulberry: Somerfeld track (object name)
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: 892 ft; Running time: 10 mins
