Lord Headfort Presents an Award to H&W and Shorts

Lord Headfort Presents an Award to H&W and Shorts

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Location

Belfast

Year

1964

Date

Production 18/12/1964

Length

02min 45sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Shorts and Harland & Wolff have been awarded the Sean DeSalis trophy for advancement in aviation. Maurice Smyth meets Lord Headfort of Headfort Aviation who has flown up from Meath in his amphibian aircraft and asks him about the trophy and why it has been awarded to the two Belfast industries. 

Notes

Thomas Geoffrey Charles Michael Taylour, 6th Marquess of Headfort (20 January 1932 – 21 October 2005) was an Irish peer, aircraft salesman, and politician. His ancestral home in Ireland was in Kells and from there, he founded Headfort Aviation. 

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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