Telegraph Pole Planter
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: Hours of back-breaking spade-work have been saved by a Post Office machine which plants telegraph poles with push-button ease. Only two men are needed to operate the corkscrew drill, which burrows deep down in seconds, and a hydraulic tamper which pummels the earth when the pole is in position. The GPO are on the right line this time, as is...
- Keywords
- Industry and manufacture
- Locations
- England; Buckinghamshire; Bletchley
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Wilfrid Thomas
- Length of story (in feet)
- 208
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How to cite this record
'Telegraph Pole Planter', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 556, 19 Aug 1965. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121679 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)