a) The prototype tank, 'Little Willie', (manufactured by William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire in 1915) at the Royal Armoured Corps Centre, Bovington, Dorset, with commentary.
There was no commentary that I could detect. It's a very short film of a man in a suit, looking a little like Clement Attlee, leaning on the tracks of Little Willie and peering in a rather staged fashion at the track plates and rollers. That's all. Not very useful.
It separates two other clips: A description of tank operations on the Western Front, 1917-1918; A description of training with Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps and Tank Corps 1916-1917.
A well-spoken man in smart civilian dress, sporting a pork pie hat, describes his experiences both in action and while training at Bovington. Nothing very spectacular as regards service at the Front, but he describes how a shortage of tanks and bad weather meant that they had to use canvas screens to represent vehicles.
That's it. All clips described. I don't know if Bov knows about them, but I understand there are no copies still in existence at the BBC.
-- Edited by James H on Tuesday 11th of August 2015 01:07:43 PM
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