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City, The (1939)
 

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Sir Charles Bressey talks about the Bressey report and urges its implementation. The film also illustrates the growth of London and its traffic since the mid-nineteenth century, the work of the Ministry of Transport Research Station, and how the GPO has built its private underground railway for the transport of mail.