Title:WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 333-2 (Spanish version, fragment 1) [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 692b
Other titles:
Summary: Spanish language version of a newsreel item on women workers assembling aircraft in Britain, January 1918.
Description: The women work in a hangar assembling the aircraft. Some of the women are in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. They make the wooden frames for the aircraft wings, then attach the fabric. A group of them wheels out the fuselage of a BE2. Outside the hangar, other women make final checks on a Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutter, tightening the wires. The engine cowling is also checked over. The pilot starts up the engine and the women hold onto the aircraft's tail to enable it to build up power.
Production Details: Department of Information (Production sponsor)
War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: industry, British - aircraft (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Royal Aircraft Establishment BE2 (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutter (object name)
31/3(41) (event)
GB, England (geography)
(concept)
