| BRITAINS BIGGEST Lady Salvidge opens Liverpool's new improved power station. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5345 |
| Catalog #: | 186156 | |
| Clip Number: | 186156-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1315 | |
| Timecode: | 01:30:36 - 01:33:29 | |
| Location: | Liverpool, Merseyside | |
| Year Shot: | 1926 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CEREMONIES: Grand Opening INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Electricity LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Merseyside, Liverpool | |
| Description: | Britain's biggest. Lady Salvidge, by moving lever a few inches, increases capacity of Liverpool's mammoth power station to 100,000 kilowatts. Liverpool, Merseyside M/S of the interior of power station; lots of machines with cogs, wheels and levers. Lady Salvidge, with a party of dignitaries, inspects machines. She passes her bouquet to nearest man and bends down to lift a small lever on machine. A man in boiler suit enters and turns a large wheel vigorously, one of dignitaries in foreground starts three cheers. Various shots of pipes and boilers around station. Panning shot of Lady S. and dignitaries seated around a piece of machinery. A man stands to give speech. The Mayor then speaks. M/S of another man speaking, he presents Lady S. (standing beside him) with a glass dish. Another man gives a speech. Panning shot of crowd looking over railings of large balcony. More shots of pipes and machinery. | |
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