ATV Today: 21.10.1974: Cricket Bats

Summary

Former cricketer Duncan Fearnley has a business in Worcester producing cricket bats. Derek Hobson talked to cricketer Dennis Amiss at the firm about what he likes in his bats and Duncan Fearnley explains how he makes them.

Year:

1974

Duration:

0:05:08

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see the Warwickshire cricket player Dennis Amiss arriving at the Fearnley works in Worcester. Inside Amiss talks to Derek Hobson about what he likes to see in a bat. We see Amiss chatting to Duncan Fearnley and testing his bat in the workshop. Amiss is planning to take three Fearnley made bats on his next England tour of Australia. Hobson next talks to Fearnley who demonstrates the use of a press used in the production of cricket bats. At the end of the report we see Amiss leaving the factory carrying his new bats.


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