TRANSPORT / QUIRKY - Home-made Aeroplane at Abingdon (1932)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Video Roll Title: Homemade aeroplane at Abingdon Home-made aeroplane constructed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England by S Buckle. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: 'All my own work!' Mr S Buckle of Abingon, Berks, shows us his home-made aeroplane, made of spare parts and oddments Berkshire: Abingdon: Monoplane built at home by S Buckle, details of parts and fixings - use of bicycle wheels INTERTITLE: His fiancee did the paintings S Buckle and his fiancee look at the wheels which she has painted with a spiral motif INTERTITLE: The propeller cost 1/-, the engine cost ????4 S Buckle and helper put fuel in aeroplane INTERTITLE: Total cost...????17 (Now, then, Mr Ford!) S Buckle in plane / Starting plane with propeller / S Buckle in plane smoking pipe / Demonstrating flaps in wings INTERTITLE: And she flies! Plane taking of