Factory Making Bikes And Mini Bikes (1943)

Unused / unissued material - date and locations unclear or unknown.



(Section of newsreel for overseas.)



Titles read: "NEWS FROM ENGLAND - Nouvelles d'Ingleterre - [similar sentiments expressed in Arabic?]".



Soldier turns around slowly with a folded bicycle on his back in a warehouse. He quickly takes the contraption off and puts it together then sit on the bike.



Several shots of women and men in a factory making the collapsible bikes and mini motorbikes for airborne forces. Good factory shots. Men demonstrate how the mini motorbikes unfold, and ride around on them inside the warehouse.
FILM ID:1959.12

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