Women of Auxiliary Territorial Service,in flight overalls, followed by new volunteers,in street clothes, march to a hangar at aviation training facility. Words on top of hangar read 'The Gordon Dove'. Women in line enter the hangar. A biplane and a monoplane land on field. Two women watch and autogyro take off. Four women work on framework of an airplane. They are dressed in flight overalls and wear caps with a type of ATS insignia on them. Several women walk to the hangar from the autogyro, carrying tools.
Women, of the British Auxiliary Territorial Service, work maintaining aircraft during World War II. A woman performs maintenance on nose section of an airplane engine. One woman explains aspects of an engine to several others. A woman climbs into cockpit of an autogyro, while another pulls propeller through several times. A third woman lies on ground under aircraft performing maintenance inside an open panel. New women volunteers are lined up in formation on concrete apron in front of hangar, while supervisor speaks to them.
British women working in agriculture, in the "Land Army" on the home front, during World War II. They wear the uniform consisting o breeches, jersey, and slouch hat. Women are seen gathering harvested crop, pitching hay onto horse -drawn wagon and driving tractor in field. Women riding on wagon pulled by draught horse. A woman leads the horse, pulling empty wagon, out the gate of the farm.
British women of the "Land Army" at work in agricultural activities in the United Kingdom, during World War II. They wear uniforms consisting of Jersey, breeches, and slouch hat. They handle produce on a conveyor belt in a farm shed, and pack produce in boxes. They tend vegetables growing in raised beds, watering and harvesting. The women pass through an archway and enter a classroom, where an instructor explains the fundamentals of an internal combustion cycle. Women line up on dirt field and pick up potatoes as they are uprooted by a tractor driven by one of the women.
Admiralty responsible for the command of the Royal Navy in United Kingdom demonstrates Floating Air Strips. The emergency landing field named 'Lily Pond' is constructed of hexagonal segments. The Floating Air Strip on water. A plane comes in for a landing. Men watch the landing. The plane taxis. The location is Lamlash Bay, Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland
Departure of Royal Mail Ship Queen Elizabeth. First boat train arrives at bridge of Royal Mail Ship Queen Elizabeth. Passengers arrive by car. Passengers gathered to board the ship. Cabin class passengers board Queen Elizabeth. Baggage aboard. Crane in the background. Baggage handled and put on to conveyor. Baggage slung into forward hold. Gangplank lowered. A sign reads 'Railway of England'.
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