Dispatch Riders Aka Emergency Messengers Issue Title - Needs Must (1942)

Dispatch riders - emergency messengers. London (?) Young men around 17 sign up to be emergency messengers, they are fitted for helmets and gas masks. They cycle away to danger areas. Wardens fling themselves on the ground as a bomb explodes, the telephone is dead so emergency messengers have to be sent out to control centre. M/S of girls at the centre, the messengers ride through and deliver the details. Messengers ride and wardens run through the streets. M/S as two female ambulance drivers jump into their ambulance. The rescue squads drive off in a special bus. Various shots of the civil defence workers. 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 Graphi