INLAND WATER TRANSPORT [Main]


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  • Year: 1917
  • Runtime: 4 mins
  • Description: A piledriver on the canal bank builds a landing stage. A road swing bridge across the canal on the section between Béthune and Givenchy opens to let IWT barge AS 174 pass through. Two mobile cranes, one marked IWT 32, unload roadfill material from the barge, with soldiers assisting.
    Barges and construction work of the Inland Water Transport on the La Bassée Canal, Western Front, probably 1917.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Inland Water Transport / ships, British auxiliary - inland: barge / equipment, British - engineering: crane (canal) / engineering, military, British / 01/3(4-15).6 / La Bassée Canal, Nord, France
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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