Repairs of any kind can be carried out in the workshops

Collection title

Memory of the Suez Canal

ID

BIB00011

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

1927

Production year

1927

Abstract

The archives of the Suez Canal provide a fundamental interest, both from the point of view of the history of technology and engineering (the Suez Canal was the first to have been dug by mechanical means), and that of the naval and economic history. The Canal received half of the global trafficking of goods between the two world wars. On the other hand, it was often at the heart of global political rivalries, from the repurshase of the shares of the Viceroy of Egypt by the English in 1875 to the 1956 Suez crisis, through the Turkish offenssive from 1914 to 1916 and the 1941 -1942 German attack. The archive shows the repair workshop: repairs of all kinds can be carried outin these workshops. A marine dredger is being repaired.

Type

video

Production companies

• Association of the memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal - Own production

Broadcaster

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Audiovisual form

Library footage

Primary theme

Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.

Secondary themes

• Tourism and cultural sites / Urbanism and cities / Main harbours

Period of events

• From 1925 to 1950

Map locations

• Egypt - Lower Egypt - Port-Fouad

Original language

French

Media running time

0m42

Additional information

With the kind permission of the association of memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal.