"Get your new ration books and identity cards here" seen written on a sign. British civilians line up to obtain new post-war ration books, after the end of World War 2. Women shopping for rationed food. British ships idle in ports as exports wane. View of New York harbor with tugs and barges and Manhattan skyline and skyscrapers in background. Woman holding poster advertising First International Auto Show (held from February 5-10, 1949, at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory, Twenty-fifth Street and Lexington Avenue, in New York City), including European cars to be shown in New York City. British cars in their first car show. One of the cars shown is the 1948 Ghost Minx with two women seated inside it. A 1948 Jaguar convertible is also shown. Communist parades in Europe and Asia. Start of Marshall Plan to help Europe rebuild after the war. Newspaper shows President Truman signing Foreign Aid Bill (led to Marshall Plan).
A gas mask factory in England during World War II. British Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Home Department Geoffrey Lloyd at the gas mask factory. Women workers manufacture gas masks. Lloyd and others inspect the plant. Lloyd puts on a gas mask. Men wear gas masks and demonstrate their use. A wounded being placed on a stretcher during the demonstration.
Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor aircraft in England. A pilot gets into the cockpit of a Gloster Meteor aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off from a base. Men look on as the aircraft takes off. The aircraft returns to the base and taxis after landing.
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill returns to England from Morocco. An aircraft named 'Silver city' lands and taxis at an airfield. Winston Churchill and his wife get off the aircraft. People gathered around him. He talks to people after his return from Morocco. He gets in a car and leaves. Churchill gets off the car and poses.
The 1967 International 500 Sports Car Race on the Brands Hatch Race Track in England. Philip Toll Hill Jr., an automobile racer from California, driving a Chaparral race car leads other sports car including Ferrari and Porsche. Philip Toll Hill comes out of his car. Photographers click pictures.
Part of a British production, circa 1940, highlighting the work of the Royal Air Force during World War II, and discussing the history of the RAF while showing World War I Royal Flying Corps (RFC) images. The Royal Air Force in the United Kingdom. The flag of the Royal Air Force (RAF) on a mast. RAF personnel from all parts of the commonwealth march in a mass formation during World War II, including mainland Great Britain pilots and Indian RAF pilots and crews. A line of aircraft stationed on an airfield in the UK. History of RAF is discussed by narrator, with images from World War I of Royal Flying Corps (then part of British Army) airmen and their aircraft. Views of several World War I aircraft on an airfield and taking off, including the Sopwith Camel, the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5, the Bristol F.2 Fighter. Royal Flying Corps pilots and crews gathered for group photos.
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