Fire Resisting Demonstration Lner (1938)

Item title reads - Great West Road. Fire resisting demonstration. London. (LNER). M/S’s of two wooden huts with thermite incendiary bombs burning in them. The one on the left has been treated with anti-flam paint. M/S showing the one which hasn’t completely burnt out, it eventually collapses. The fire dies away in the other to show it hasn’t been touched by the flames. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.