"Postal Special" 1930s style LMS steam Euston Crewe

You are bidding for a video record of the long discarded 16mm film described below.   When the film  was made it provided a unique insight into its particular subject.  Over the last thirty years a number of ethusiasts realised that such films provided an untapped source of information on past techniques and methods At some time in the past it would have been rescued after being discarded as obsolete by the original owners .

Any money raised from the sale of this video will go towards offsetting the costs of more rescues. 

This DVD recorded during a showing of the short  film described.

Summary of Contents

This silent film is a bit of a mystery.  It is not the famous documentary “Night Mail “but it covers the same subject. . For a film student it is a fascinating demonstration of how two different camera teams approached the same assignment .  For the steam railway enthusiast it shows smart working at its best. The subject is  the 8.30  LMS Scottish postal  leaving Euston for The North . As this is a silent film  it the visual shots that have the impact.  Very good sequences on picking up mailbags at speed.  Featured is the  Ramsey apparatus where mailbags can be exchanged between train and standard at full speed.  On to Crewe for 11.44 in the middle of the night  500 sorted bags dropped off and a thousand bags loaded and away again in 13 minutes.  The train carried 39 postal workers to deal with half  a million letters  in the travelling post office.   At 4.32 Carstairs Jumnction is reached where the train is to be divided  and split in three destinations Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Glasgow.  The final caption suggests that letters posted in London for the evening collection will be delivered the next morning by 7am!   Seventy five years later the that level of service seems but a distant memory!!  Black and White Silent 10 mins. 

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Teechnical Note. This is a DVD record of a private screening. Transfer quality is to enable the contents to be studied rather than to achieve the  high standard achieved by professional broadcast and commercial video  publishers

.However this does mean that you if you are the successful bidder  I will prepare your copy and send it to you BEFORE expecting you to pay.  Assuming you are find it proves to be what you expected from the decription all I ask is that you pay preferably by PayPal within SEVEN DAYS of the DVD reaching you.I can make this offer because so far with few exceptions everybody who has purchased a DVD this way has been facinated by the contents of the video they selected and only too happy to pay.

To my mind that seems a very fair way to work for both parties.