Lovely archive of WW2 film from the Yorkshire Film Archive here:
Nice film about shell manufacture (esp. to people like me who love all things manufacturing). Blimey, the effort that goes into making just one shell! No safety gloves or boots to be seen!
http://www.yfaonline.com/assetDetails.cfm?film=2287&keyword=
Sheffield AA gun site in colour:
http://www.yfaonline.com/assetDetails.cfm?film=2299&keyword=
Motorcycle training in colour:
http://www.yfaonline.com/assetDetails.cfm?film=100&keyword=&sortby=&decade=22&by=decade&start=1&fromSearchValue=fromBrowseBy
Bradford Home Guard formation in colour (&getting their new rifles!). Full of deatil - drilling, weapons handling, + crazy flame thrower!:
http://www.yfaonline.com/assetDetails.cfm?film=1214&keyword=&sortby=&decade=22&by=decade&start=1&fromSearchValue=fromBrowseBy
Post war but evocative nonetheless - Men of Steel. Steel manufacture at Rotherham in the days when Britain actually worked hard and made stuff for a living...
http://www.yfaonline.com/assetDetails.cfm?film=99&keyword=&sortby=&decade=22&by=decade&start=11&fromSearchValue=fromBrowseBy
Only watched the home guard one so far, but feck some good stuff there... and in colour! 
Great links!
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
The M/C Trg hasn't changed much........... 
but the accommodation isn't as posh..... 
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