Note
Inauguration of the city of Port-Fouad ( 1st part of the day) |
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Collection title
Memory of the Suez CanalID
BIB00023Source
Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)First broadcast date
1926Production year
1926Abstract
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 archive presents the inauguration of the city of Port-Fouad, created in 1926, by the company of the Suez Canal on the Asia bank opposite Port-Said. The 14th International Congress of Navigation held in Cairo ended, the guests arrive by train. Senior officials and distinguished persons await the King's arrival. The arrival of the royal train at the station H.M the King Fouad leaves the train station and goes to his yacht, the " Mahroussa", on board the car of the court.Type
videoProduction companies
- Association of the memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal - Own production
Primary theme
Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.Period of events
- From 1925 to 1950
Map locations
- Egypt - Lower Egypt - Port-Fouad
Original language
FrenchMedia running time
10m54Additional information
With the kind permission of the association of the memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal.
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