Progress Report On “Aswan High Dam“ (1964)

Unissued / Unused Material - Egypt. CU Map of Egypt showing Aswan. VS Good of Egyptian workers arriving at the Aswan High Dam, some come on a packed train and others by lorry. GV Nile River. near area where dam is being built. GV Large turbine housing units where the electric turbines and generators will produce power. LS Entrances to tunnels through which the water will flow to supply the generators. VS Men at work drilling holes in rock for dynamite charges. GV Rock explosion. VS Good material on mechanical excavator digging up rock and loading it onto back of trucks. VS Trucks back right up to Nile edge and tip their load. MS Three Egyptian engineers studying plan. MS Looking out of the darkness of one of the generator tunnels. GV Pan of dam site and the River Nile. MS Some men working on the welding of steel framework. MS Group of spectators looking over the dam. VS Rock leading area where the rock is unloaded from trucks, down a chute and into barges with false bottoms. GV Section of Nile with the