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  1. TIPTOE

    Date released
    Apr 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345782
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the manufacture of miners’ safety boots at Wilkins and Denton, Rushden, Northamptonshire. Also shows a seven-ton bus riding over a man wearing the boots. NCB Commentary - Too many accidents...

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  2. Lancashire - SAFETY COMMANd POST

    Date released
    Apr 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346368
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Lancashire’s Parkside Colliery adopts army techniques in the war against accidents. NCB Commentary - At Lancashire’s Parkside Colliery ELSIE is the nerve centre controlling underground...

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  3. SELF RESCUERS

    Date released
    Mar 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346201
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: small filtering masks known as self-rescuers are being used at selected pits to combat carbon monoxide fumes. NCB Commentary - Despite all our precautions, stringent safety regulations and...

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  4. Derbyshire - Gallery

    Date released
    Jul 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 18th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    346296
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: Safety in Mines Research Establishment’s new explosion tunnel. NCB Commentary - A day’s outing by coach for a party of miners. But this is no joy ride. They’ve come up to the bleak moors...

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  5. BURNING BRIGHT

    Date released
    Sep 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345843
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI Summary - teaching lamp testing station. NCB Commentary - These are bulbs for miners’ cap lamps. Thousands of them are in use at all hours of the day and night in Britain’s collieries, and of the...

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  6. National Story - Pillars of Strength

    Date released
    Dec 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346312
    Story no
    2 / 4

    NoS synopsis: powered supports underground give new safety NCB Commentary - These are pillars of strenth indeed. They are called "powered supports", and thousands of them help keep up the roof in the...

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  7. LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS

    Date released
    Jun 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346248
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: A look at the miner’s safety lamp. NCB Commentary - They used to say "Don’t go down the mine, daddy," but for hundreds of years miners have done just that. In the early years the coal was...

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  8. IDEAS MAN

    Date released
    Apr 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345826
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Gerald Russon from Thoresby Colliery demonstrates two of his inventions for safety in mines. The first is the face conveyor signalling and motor control device which allows the conveyor to be...

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  9. Yorkshire: SAFETY FAST

    Date released
    May 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345827
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the Seckar man-riding invention at Haig Drift mine, Yorkshire. Show the man-riding in operation which saves miners a 50 minute walk. NCB Commentary - Under this pleasant Yorkshire countryside...

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  10. DOUBLE DUTCH

    Date released
    Apr 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345953
    Story no
    2 / 4

    NoS synopsis: new methods of tracing gas leaks in the mains devised by Dutch engineers. NCB Commentary - Subsidence in mining districts is a common happening. Houses and roads, and what lies beneath the...

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