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  1. Ripping

    Date released
    Apr 1968
    Series name
    Mining Review 21st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346408
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: New techniques and new machines make it possible for mine roadways to keep up with the fast advance of the coal-face. NCB Commentary - Roadways in mines have to be driven forward all the time...

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  2. Area Profile: Notts. East Midlands No.3 Edwinstowe.

    Date released
    1956
    Series name
    Mining Review Composite Editions
    Issue no
    CMR4
    NoS ID
    346566

    BFI synopsis: A look at "The Dukeries", Edwinstowe’s 12 pits, the most productive in the country. Mechanisation and works facilities, including canteens are looked at. The miners’ homes are also seen,...

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  3. Training Centre

    Date released
    May 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345516
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI Summary - Sheffield mines mechanisation centre. BFI synopsis: Follows student Gordon Harper at the centre as he learns how to handle tools, machines and flameproof equipment.

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  4. ADVANCE

    Date released
    Sep 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346016
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: new developments in self-advancing roof supports including the Dawtry Roofmaster. NCB Commentary - Five years ago only a few million tons of coal a year were produced by machines which both...

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  5. Something in the Air

    Date released
    1962
    Series name
    The Way Ahead (Wyvern)
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    352954
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: Review of new specialised instruments and machines to test presence of dangerous fumes in the air.

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  6. SHOW OF STRENGTH

    Date released
    Nov 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345893
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Report of a conference at Calverton Colliery, Notts., on power loading equipment. NCB Commentary - Set in pleasant Nottinghamshire countryside is Calverton Colliery. Here N.C.B. divisional...

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  7. TREE SHIFT

    Date released
    Nov 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346228
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: 2 tree-planting machines imported from America show what can be done in transplanting large trees at an open-cast site. NCB Commentary - The coal we need often lies just below the surface of...

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  8. TRAINING FILM

    Date released
    Jan 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345942
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Men being instructed in up-to-date mining methods using films and strips NCB Commentary - In the precincts of Britannia Colliery in the Rhymney Valley stands the Mining and Machinery...

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  9. 35 YEARS AFTER

    Date released
    Apr 1960
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346080
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Sir James Bowman, Chairman of the N.C.B. at Brynlliw colliery, with is re-opened after 35 years. NCB Commentary - Brynlliw Colliery - abandoned in 1927 - is a coal producing unit again. Below...

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  10. MECHANIZATION SQUAD

    Date released
    Oct 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345930
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: In the Lothians area a group of Mining Engineers facilitates the introduction of new mechanical mining methods at local collieries. NCB Commentary - Whitehill Colliery is the scene of an...

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