Homes on Leinster Gardens in Bayswater, London, England. View of a three feet thick facade false house erected to hide the subway tunnel. Traffic in front of the facade building. The subway tunnel and railroad tracks. A car parked in front of the building. A train on the tracks of the hidden London underground tunnel.
Wash women take clothes for cleaning in London, England. The British women use prams and pushchairs to carry clothes for washing and park them in front of a building. The women are shown washing the clothes. After washing, women gather in front of the building where a man helps load their clean clothes into their prams.
New small fire wagon beats bigger rivals in successful test in Oxford, England. Smoke comes out from a house. The small fire wagon comes out from a fire station. Firemen get out from the wagon. They successfully stop fire. A big wagon loaded with firemen crosses with small one.
Entire city plays football in an Annual Shrovetide match in Ashbourne, England. A man holds a football (or soccer ball). Giant crowd of children and adults are seen running. People jump in Henmore River. They struggle to get the ball. People watch from a wall.
A woman flies a small airplane in Liverpool, England. A young woman pulls a small 'airplane roadster' across an airfield. She poses with a small dog at the airplane, then places some golf club luggage in a rear compartment of the fuselage, and a briefcase or suitcase in a front compartment. Her dog is sitting in the airplane. The woman places a large suitcase in a forward fuselage compartment, climbs in the cockpit, checks her makeup in a mirror, and then takes off. People standing near a car watch. (This is a Comper Swift monoplane, filmed at Hooton Park, near Liverpool, where these planes were made. Probably the first one built, filmed for publicity, It is powered by a 40 hp ABC Scorpion piston engine. Later versions had a more powerful radial engine.)
British R101 rigid airship crashes killing 48 members of crew during its maiden oversees voyage to India. Clip opens showing past events, including Head of British Air Ministry Lord Thomson, Director of Civil Aviation Sir Sefton Brancker and other notable aircraft experts boarding R101 moored to mast in Cardington, England. French officials inspect the wreckage of the airship after its crash in Beauvais, France. French civilians look on.
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