This is one of a collection of promotional films made by the large crane manufacturers, Priestman Brothers of Hull.  This film is in two halves: the first part focuses on the Half-Yard Shovel Mark IV, and the second part demonstrates Priestman machines at work in post-war house construction. Title – Priestman Brothers Limited Present Title - The Panther Half-Yard Shovel (Mark IV) (B&W) The first part begins showing being demonstrated the Half-Yard Shovel in action moving coal at a...

This is one of a collection of promotional films made by the large crane manufacturers, Priestman Brothers of Hull.  This film is in two halves: the first part focuses on the Half-Yard Shovel Mark IV, and the second part demonstrates Priestman machines at work in post-war house construction. Title – Priestman Brothers Limited Present Title - The Panther Half-Yard Shovel (Mark IV) (B&W) The first part begins showing being demonstrated the Half-Yard Shovel in action moving coal at a Barnsley open cast mine in August 1950. (Col) The second part begins with a title – Postwar Housing (1947).  This features various Priestman products, including the Wolf excavator.  It shows the whole process from digging clay to making bricks, to dredging sand and gravel for concrete, transporting it, quarrying stone for roads, laying pipes and making road foundations.  It also shows making trenching for sewers, and putting up prefabricated houses, with an intertitle stating that, “over 300 builders are Priestman owners, April 1947”.