The Super Tug! (1934)

Titles read: "THE SUPER TUG!"



Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear.



Several shots of Mr J T Porter (a man in his 80s) of Tynemouth with his model steam tug, made perfectly to scale. Commentator says the tug weighs 6 stone and took two years to make. The tug pulls Mr Porter and two other men in a rowing boat across a lake!
FILM ID:1163.01

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