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U.S. President Dwight D Eisenhower arrives in London and being greeted by Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral Castle

United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower tours the United Kingdom. President Eisenhower gets off a United States Military Air Transport Service (MATS) aircraft at London Airport, present day London Heathrow Airport (Longford TW6, United Kingdom). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan and other officers receives Eisenhower at the airport. A large crowd of British civilians waves at the President. Honor guards lined. President tours the city in a motorcade. Civilians stand on either side of the streets to greet him. View of Balmoral Castle (Balmoral Estates, Ballater AB35 5TB, UK). Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret receives President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan.

Date: 1959, August 31
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055673
Soviet TU-104 jet airliner at London Heathrow Airport. Soviet Colonel-General Ivan Serov and other officials stand on the ramp

Soviet airliner Tu-104 prototype,CCCP number L5400-25, arrives at London Heathrow on 22 March 1956, carrying Soviet Colonel-General Ivan Serov, and other Soviet officials. Weather is rainy with water on the airfield runways and ramps. British police officers assist the Soviet party, as a car is brought up. DC-3 aircraft seen in background, parked on the ramp. Refueling trucks drive up to the aircraft. Some persons seek shelter under the wing, from the rain.

Date: 1956, March 22
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056001
Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon leads a ball, following the award of degrees at the University of London.

Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) attends a ball at the University of London. The Queen Mother leads a ball, following the award of degrees at the University of London. People dance in the ballroom.

Date: 1956, May 14
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047748
Lord Halifax visit East end of London after the Nazi German bombardment (WW2)

Aftermath of London bombings by Nazi Germany during World War II. Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, visits the damaged houses in East end of London. Rubble collected along roads. Pile of rubble in a park. Halifax and two men confer in a street.

Date: 1940, September
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049617
Shops reopen in London after the Nazi blitz bombardment during World War II.

Aftermath of London blitz or blitzkrieg bombings by Nazi German Luftwaffe during World War II. Rubble outside a shop with a sign 'Bombed but not beaten' other signs read 'We are open' 'open for business'. As people walk past the shops in London. Bourne and Hollingsworth on Oxford Street.

Date: 1940, September
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049618
The world’s first commercial jetliner, the de Havilland Comet, departs Hatfield airfield for delivery to BOAC (British Overseas Airways Company)

The British Overseas Airways Company (BOAC) receives their first delivery of the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jetliner. Employees working at de Havilland gather to witness the departure of the aircraft from the company’s Hatfield airfield aerodrome (Hatfield, Hertfordshire; 3NM NE of St Albans). The de Havilland chief test pilot, John "Cats Eyes" Cunningham, climbs the airstair to board the aircraft. The BOAC de Havilland Comet airplane, registered G-ALYP ("Yoke Peter"), taxis for takeoff. The de Havilland Comet airplane takes off from the airfield. The Comet jet airplane in flight.

Date: 1951, April 2
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049704