TRANSPORT / WWII: Cripps visits Lancaster bomber factory (1943)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Minister of Aircraft Production visits Avro works, home of Britain’s best bomber. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: ’CRIPPS ASKS FOR MORE LANCASTERS’ ENGLAND: INT GV Assembly shop in Avro bomber factory with Richard Stafford Cripps MP (Minister of Aircraft Production) and others gathered and Cripps enters fuselage of Lancaster. Side view pan Cripps with R.H. Dobson (Avro pilot) walking along line of fuselage assembles. SV angle shot girl worker in fuselage. SV Cripps talking to girl worker on nose section of Lancaster. LV Cripps tries out pilot seat. SV angle shot Cripps sitting in pilot seat. SCU Cripps sitting in pilot seat. GV Cripps addressing workers in factory canteen. (Sound begins) LV Stafford Cripps speech SOT - Comrades, I am very glad indeed to have this opportunity of addressing a few words to you who are doing so important and so excellent a jo