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BFI synopsis: the Gloster Getter Cutter loader, Cresswell NCB Commentary - There’ll always be a need for men who can use a shovel in the mines but mechanisation at the coalface has been making giant...
BFI synopsis: flights attached to an ordinary coal-cutter turn it into a power-loader (shot at Polkemmet Colliery) NCB Commentary - In 80% of British Coalfaces cutting machines bring down the coal, to be...
BFI synopsis: Wagon handling at Dalkeith Coal Preparation plant NCB Commentary - At Dalkeith in Scotland is a big new coal washery, where ordinary rail wagons loaded with coal get a streamlined treatment....
BFI synopsis: New techniques at Nantgarw colliery, near Cardiff. New technique for concreting tunnel walls shown with two men experimenting on wall of surface, then underground. Shot of driving tunnel to get...
BFI synopsis: one of the mining industry’s biggest problems, water underground, is solved at Mainsforth colliery, County Durham, by utilising the underground water to augment local water supplies NCB...
BFI synopsis: The Institution of Mining Engineers meet in Manchester. From nearby Bradford Colliery a demonstration of the NCB’s remotely controlled self-advancing roof support system is piped by close...
BFI Summary - Canadian coal cutter at Rawdon colliery NCB Commentary - Every year Coal Board experts travel trousands of miles to wherever coal is mined in the search for new mining techiniques and machinery...
BFI synopsis: miner Joe Steel, world champion crisp eater. NCB Commentary - At Choppington Colliery, Joe Steel comes off shift. In nearby Bedlington his "Local" is the Howard Arms. With Mrs. Steel, Joe is...
BFI synopsis: at historic Cole Orton Hall, near Ashby, Leicestershire, a carnival procession and a pageant "The Heart of England" form part of the Annual Fete and Gala in aid of the Mineworkers’ Paraplegic...
NCB Summary - About the expanding future of the Coal Board’s Western region. NCB synopsis: Black and white still of industrial area - Stoke on Trent showing smoking chimneys and factories. Pan left to...
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