Army aid in Thailand DPR/TV/1476

Coverage of the Australian Army technical advisers in Thailand. National flags around the SEATO emblem. Nagas on the roof of the temple in the Grand Palace. Looking down on the temple roof. Weekend markets spreading way into the distance through temple roofs. Part of the Grand Palace showing the Wat Phra Keo. Monks walking towards Marble Monastery. Lion guarding the entrance to the monastery. Students forming up for morning parade at the Military Technical Training School. Students marching off parade. School band. Students going into classes with classrooms in the background. Thai clipping grass hedge replica of a kangaroo. School badge on the wall of the building. Students marching into school's motor vehicle wing to being lessons. Senior Australian adviser on the staff at the school, Captain Dough Crosdale of Cessnock, NSW, instructs a classroom of Thais on the ignition system through an interpreter. Warrant Officer 1 (WO 1) Peter Terry of Aspley Qld checks the micrometer reading in the workshop itself with trainee instructors. Thai students working the machine. Thai student in transmission and chasis section of the school. Tha instructor lecturing on working model board of air brake system. WO 2 Trevor Norling of Maida Vale Perth explains the system to the Thai instructor to translate the lesson. Farm hands working in lettuce plot with Armed Forces Vehicle Rebuild Workshops in the background. The senior Australian adviser in Thailand for both the school and workshop, retire Lieutenant Colonel Jack Jones of South Perth, technical adviser at the workshops Major Des Condron of Watsonia Melbourne and Thai director of the project Colonel Nop Phumhirhan walking through wrecked vehicles to be rebuilt. Various scenes of Thai working at the centre. Australian adviser Major Mick Leonard of Chippendale, Sydney aiding Thai installing instrument panel. Thai woman checking finished vehicle. Major Leonard climbs into vehicle to drive away. Vehicle driving out on test run.