Tractor Spares Ltd

Summary

Untitled industrial film with French commentary showing the work of Tractor Spares Limited at their Willenhall factory.

Year:

1960

Duration:

0:28:56

Film type:

Black & White / Sound

Genre:

Industrial

Master format:

16mm

Description

The film opens with two boys wandering onto the site of Tractor Spares Limited at Willenhall. They are met by an elderly man who shows them the features of a caterpillar tractor. A mobile cinema owned by the film arrives and several directors are introduced. We then see inside the factory and the production processes making sprockets, track pins and track chains for tracked agricultural vehicles. The final scenes depict the old man showing the children a vintage Briton car which was made by the firm in the 1920s.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

The English title for this reel is likely to have been 'Keep on the Right Track'.