A British police officer (or "Bobby") directs traffic through thick fog pollution (sometimes called "London fog" or "Pea soup fog") in England, caused by burning of soft coal. Next seen shows a British man trying to walk against a heavy wind on an icy sidewalk with difficulty. Rain and ice are shown streaming off a roof top, and a man in a raincoat runs for cover on the streets of Britain. View of exterior of an Air Ministry building, and then of technicans inside using modern computers and tape reading devices to monitor and forecast weather for Britain. A man unloads a reel of data tape from a machine and loads it into a tape reader. View of hands on switch board of early computer device. Automated printer prints reports. Weather forecasters sit at a table together viewing weather pattern maps and hand drawing other weather maps. Seen returns to outdoors during a storm. View of a woman dropping some items that slide away from her on an icy sidewalk. She slips and slides on the ice behind them. Two other women are showing trying to walk on the ice. One woman falls down on the ice and high winds blow the other woman forward as she runs across the ice and then falls.
Footage shot during Battle of Britain in World War 2. Pilot seated in cockpit of a RAF (Royal Air Force) Supermarine spitfire single-seat fighter plane. Ground crew check the planes. Spitfire plane in line. Fuel lorry arrives. Planes re-armed and re-fueled. Pilots enter the cockpit. Planes take-off. Spitfire planes in air in formations.
RAF (Royal Air Force) Supermarine spitfire single-seat fighter plane is re-fueled. Albion AM463 350 gallon refueler seen. Ground crew check the planes and make it ready for the next flight. Planes re-fueled. Pilots enter the cockpit. Fuel lorry moves to the next plane. The ground crew checks the Petrol Meter while re-fueling. (World War II period).
Propeller of a RAF (Royal Air Force) Supermarine spitfire single-seat fighter plane stops. Fuel lorry seen. Ground crew check the planes and make it ready for the next flight. Planes re-fueled. Planes are re-armed before mission during Battle of Britain. (World War II period).
A Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) Show in England. The Royal Air Force passes in Coronation Review for the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II. R.A.F flyers march. R.A.F. aircraft on airfield for inspection by Queen Elizabeth. RAF aircraft fly overhead in formation, including Lincoln Bombers, Meteor Fighters, English Electric Canberra Jet Bombers, and a Handley Page Victor Jet Bomber which had been top secret until the occasion. An aerial view of the Victor Jet Bomber is also seen.
The Royal Family of Britain seated under a shade as they watch a horse show. Princess Anne seated with her parents, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on either side of her. A boy rides a horse in the show. She takes help from her father as her blanket falls.
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