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British Soldiers of Honorable Artillery Company board railroad train and leave London during World War I.

British troops of the Honorable Artillery Company Regiment leave London by railway train, bound for France to reinforce those already there. The railroad train station platform is filled with new recruits and reinforcement troops as they march toward the train. Soldiers on platform wave to those in the train. (World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1916, October
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026074
Film about 1919 Railroad strike and its effects on Londoner's following World War I

Opening slate states: "The Railroad Strike, Scenes at the London Terminal and at the overcrowded bus and tram routes." People are seen walking about in a London train station after World War 1. Baggage is piled up on one section of a platform. Army officers climb onto an open car filled with luggage, and wave as they drive away. A large queue of people is seen at a bus station, where double decked buses are loading and discharging passengers. Women board a horse-drawn wagon as an alternate way of traveling. Back at the train station, Army officers help a woman from a car and then climb aboard it themselves with their luggage. A family sits atop a flat railway cart with luggage underneath. More views of too many people trying to get on too few buses. Scene shifts to Piccadilly Circus where pedestrians walk near the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain and the Criterion Theater.

Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026083
Hyde Park, London, turned into a milk distribution center during World War I

Farmers drive wagons filled with milk cans, into Hyde Park, during World War 1. Volunteers help unload the milk cans and line them up along a walkway. Afterwards, they clean their hands in the park lake. A new slate speaks of need to conserve petrol. Men stand looking over stacks of petrol (gasoline) cans in another area of the park. Two trucks (lorries) drive between the stacks of cans. Scene reverts again to volunteers washing their hands in the lake, and to men moving cans of milk. Next, British soldiers in uniform, are seen helping to move milk cans. Scene changes to a long queue of men and women waiting for public transport. Double-decker buses move through the area. A glimpse of a railroad train station, is followed by another look at the men washing hands in the lake. A line of empty trucks leaves the park. A final view of stacked milk cans.

Date: 1915
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026084
British Communists campaign at Trafalgar Square for recognition of Soviet Russia

Slate reads; "Peace with Russia Meeting. Demonstration to advocate recognition of Soviet Government held in Trafalgar Square." A large crowd is gathered at the Square. Several speakers address them from the base of Nelson's Column (A400 Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom), next to the lion statues. One banner seen reads: "prepare to lay down tools," pointed at working men. A call for "copper donations" results in an outpouring of pennies, which men pick up from the ground and carry to the front where one of the only women seen, is consolidating the contributions. Two men converse. One wears a fez.

Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026085
City of London and Sir Robert Bellinger and other people in annual Lord Mayor's show in London, Britain.

Annual Lord Mayor's show in London, Britain. River Thames, bridge over river and city besides the river. A tower in the city near the river. Boat on river shore. Tomes of castle. Boats in the river. City of London. Buildings and subway in the city. People in annual Lord Mayor's show. Performers on the road, one performer blows fire form mouth during parade. Sir Robert Bellinger reviews the gala parade and rides in his Ornate Lord Mayor's Coach. Guards walk past coach.

Date: 1966, November 24
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026291
British use coal gas as substitute motor fuel during World War I

Large tank filled with coal gas seen mounted on a motorcycle. Campion Motors Nottingham, is written on side of the tank, and Campion Coal Gas Motors on the front. The motorcycle pulls away from the company works at Mettham Street, Nottingham. The motorcycle and tank structure driving along a highway, with driver plus two men riding on the tank undercarriage. They are accompanied by another man on a motorcycle and one in its sidecar. The cycle with the tank demonstrates its maneuverability. Change of scene shows driver of a coal gas fueled bus refueling from a gas pipe. Fumes surround the connection as he refuels. He disconnects and tucks his refueling hose away. Passengers are sitting in the bus. Closeup of rear of bus shows huge inflatable gas tank atop the bus. "Chapman's, Driven by Coal Gas," written on back of the tank. The bus drives down a village street, as small boys run along beside it. World War 1 period.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026891