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Films held at Liddell Hart Military Archives, King's College, London: Little Willie and Ex-Tanker.
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The last three clips on this film.

a) The prototype tank, 'Little Willie', (manufactured by William Foster and Company, Lincoln, Lincolnshire in 1915) at the Royal Armoured Corps Centre, Bovington, Dorset, with commentary.

There was no commentary that I could detect. It's a very short film of a man in a suit, looking a little like Clement Attlee, leaning on the tracks of Little Willie and peering in a rather staged fashion at the track plates and rollers. That's all. Not very useful.

It separates two other clips: A description of tank operations on the Western Front, 1917-1918; A description of training with Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps and Tank Corps 1916-1917.

A well-spoken man in smart civilian dress, sporting a pork pie hat, describes his experiences both in action and while training at Bovington. Nothing very spectacular as regards service at the Front, but he describes how a shortage of tanks and bad weather meant that they had to use canvas screens to represent vehicles.

That's it. All clips described. I don't know if Bov knows about them, but I understand there are no copies still in existence at the BBC.



-- Edited by James H on Tuesday 11th of August 2015 01:07:43 PM

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