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Object description
Unedited and uncensored newsreel rushes showing: (I) An RAOC workshop unit in a French village. (II) British and French armoured troops meet in Hargicourt (a). (III) The railhead at Doullens. (IV) British and French armoured troops meet in Hargicourt (b).
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I. Scenes in the village of Mercatel about four miles south of Arras showing two Royal Army Ordnance Corps (?) carpenters at work planing pieces of wood at their work tables and British Army vehicles parked in the grounds of a cattle farm and a primary school for girls where pupils play next to stacks of crates of .303-inch small arms ammunition and rows of parked Morris 6x4 artillery tractors. At the end of their play break, the young girls obediently line up and re-enter their school building. RAOC workmen are seen at work in mobile workshops repairing an instrument and at a work bench with a powered drill. Blacksmiths hammer a red hot steel cylinder into shape near a portable foundry. A cylindrical object is turned on a metal lathe. A mechanic uses a micrometer to measure an object. The entrance to the farm where the RAOC mobile workshop has been established. A carpenter uses a powered saw to cut up timber. A view over the farmyard where cattle pens, carpenters' benches and a mobile workshop on a 6 x 4 lorry chassis compete for space. A fitter uses an oxy-acetylene torch to slice though a steel tube. Blacksmiths at work over braziers and anvils. A metal press is used to bend a steel rod. RAOC craftsmen work on the chassis of a truck damaged in an accident. A 6x4 workshop lorry.
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!!. Men from the 12th Royal Lancers and a French army cavalry unit meet in the main square in the village of Hargicourt between Cambrai and St Quentin in a show of inter-Allied harmony. The British unit has brought its Morris CS9 armoured cars along; the French unit has shown up with a few Hotchkiss H35 or H39 light tanks and one or two of the much more impressive Somua S-35 medium tanks.
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III RASC personnel in the new British Army battledress load sacks containig loaves of bread from the backs of lorries into railway boxcars at the main railway station at Doullens.
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IV.Scenes in Hargicourt where the 12th Royal Lancers and a French Army cavalry unit have met each other and on the main road outside the village where men from the two armies watch Hotchkiss and Somua tanks motor past. At the end of the parade, the crowd of military men, almost entirely French, walks back into Hargicourt.
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35mm