Concorde Preparation (1969)

No titles. Concorde Preparation.
This item is in colour.
Filton, near Bristol.
Various high angle views looking down on Concorde in the making inside an aircraft hangar at the British Aircraft Corporation plant. Men are seen at work on the huge plane. Scaffolding holds up the plane at different sections.
Several shots of complicated buttons, switches and consul boards in the cockpit. Shots of machinery in the main body of the plane. Commentator talks of the rising cost of the project and of redundancies at Rolls Royce because of the year-long delay.
A men work on the engine in a separate workroom and carry out tests. The Concorde plane is seen moving slowly out of the hangar while crowds of people watch from the airfield.
FILM ID:2091.18
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