The Ships are Waiting - to bring British cars to you
Series
- Series Name
- Ingot Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 6
- Summary
- NFA synopsis: Factory showing presses at work pressing out car pieces from steel sheets. Good shots of a car assembly line (possibly BMC), with shell of car body being assembled and engines put in etc.. A huge exhortatory [sic] poster on the wall reads "The Ships are Waiting". A ‘Nash Metropolitan’ for the US market, and other cars are shown at the docks.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Industry and manufacture; Motor vehicles
- Written sources
- National Film Archive Catalogue Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Cutter
- Derrick A. Gladwell
- Producer
- E. P. Moyna
- Commentator
- Geoff Summer
- Sponsor
- Richard Thomas and Baldwins Group
- Production Co.
- Verity Films Ltd.
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
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How to cite this record
'The Ships are Waiting - to bring British cars to you', Ingot Pictorial Issue No. 20, Aug 1954. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/349444 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)