Thirty Million Letters, Short Movie, 1963

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30 Million Letters

AEC Reliance 2MU3RA

AEC RT

1941 Bedford QL

Greenwood & Batley Greenbat

1955 Hillman Husky Phase I

1953 Karrier Bantam

1954 Land-Rover 86'' Series I

1959 Morris ¼-Ton O-Type Van

1960 Morris ¼-Ton O-Type Van

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dsl ◊ 2016-07-15 04:21	28 minute account of sorting and delivering letters - another focus on the overnight trains as the original Night Mail film and throws in yet another trip to Barra which seems a perennial favourite for GPO film crews, but this is great fun with a wry humour and very high quality reproduction. Can't find a full copy online, but it's on the 2007 BFI re-issue of Night Mail on DVD ... but not on other reissues such as those by GPO/BBC; may also be on British Transport Films collection DVDs. There's a 3-minute version on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPrCFJHEd8Q . Lots of quirky stuff: - delivering the post on Barra (I think we've done the obvious Citroen 1CV/Mustang/Pinto jokes on previous similar occasions) - best hair of the month - man with pet piglet ... possibly Ipswich - is this common down there?? - the overnight train is D301, it goes very fast, and has its own post-box .... and facilities for the workers to keep their sausage rolls warm Instructions for signalmen
dsl ◊ 2016-07-15 04:39	Planes for impdb 1] Traigh Mhor airport on Barra again - BEA Air Ambulance DH114 Heron 1 G-ANXA "Sister Jean Kennedy" - named after a nurse who was killed when another BEA Air Ambulance Heron crashed on Islay in November 1957 - http://blog.islayinfo.com/article.php/islay_air_ambulance_disaster 2] unidentified BEA at unidentified airport
Corkeyandpals ◊ 2020-05-09 23:42	Aircraft at: http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Thirty_Million_Letters

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dsl

◊ 2016-07-15 04:21

28 minute account of sorting and delivering letters - another focus on the overnight trains as the original Night Mail film and throws in yet another trip to Barra which seems a perennial favourite for GPO film crews, but this is great fun with a wry humour and very high quality reproduction.

Can't find a full copy online, but it's on the 2007 BFI re-issue of Night Mail on DVD

... but not on other reissues such as those by GPO/BBC; may also be on British Transport Films collection DVDs. There's a 3-minute version on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPrCFJHEd8Q .

Lots of quirky stuff:

- delivering the post on Barra

(I think we've done the obvious Citroen 1CV/Mustang/Pinto jokes on previous similar occasions)

- best hair of the month

- man with pet piglet

... possibly Ipswich - is this common down there??

- the overnight train is D301, it goes very fast, and has its own post-box

.... and facilities for the workers to keep their sausage rolls warm

Instructions for signalmen

dsl

◊ 2016-07-15 04:39

Planes for impdb

1] Traigh Mhor airport on Barra again - BEA Air Ambulance DH114 Heron 1 G-ANXA "Sister Jean Kennedy" - named after a nurse who was killed when another BEA Air Ambulance Heron crashed on Islay in November 1957 - http://blog.islayinfo.com/article.php/islay_air_ambulance_disaster

2] unidentified BEA at unidentified airport

Corkeyandpals

◊ 2020-05-09 23:42

Aircraft at: http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Thirty_Million_Letters

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