GPO Training (1968)

No title - New equipment for GPO (General Post Office) linesmen. Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. C/U line of GPO workers looking like soldiers carrying plug firing guns. M/S as they advance towards camera. C/U worker with gun, he kneels down to a batten on the wall and fires the gun into it. Various shots guns firing into battens. C/U of the batten showing the pin fired from the gun. C/U gun being loaded with a large stapling nail, pan down gun to show cartridge going into gun. M/S of another worker firing a different type of gun which puts plug into the wall. C/U of the metal plug. M/S of a modern type of mechanical trench digger in operation. C/U trench digger in the earth. M/S men operating machine called ’The Mole’ which digs, lays cable and fills in the trench in one operation. C/U of the cable being drawn through into ground. M/S of the men operating the machine, pan to man on the tractor which winches the cable through the ground. M/S of telegraph pole digging machine. M/S pole digging machi