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  1. PULSED INFUSION

    Date released
    Apr 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345954
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: new technique of shot-firing using pulsed infusion NCB Commentary - Vane Tempest Colliery in County Durham is one of the locations where a new technique in shot-firing is being used. Here, at...

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  2. Flash Point

    Date released
    May 1972
    Series name
    Mining Review 25th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346544
    Story no
    1 / 2

    BFI synopsis: CU coal falling onto a conveyor belt. CU mines operating power-loading machines. CU flash as methane gas (firedamp) ignites explosion and fire. Miners spraying water onto fire; shots of fire....

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  3. Glamorgan & Derbyshire - Progress in Safety

    Date released
    Mar 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346323
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS synopsis: A safety exhibition at Glamorgan College of Technology and the ‘self rescuer’ is shown in use underground. NCB Commentary - This is coal dust - being spread in measured quantities along an...

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  4. STORM WARNING

    Date released
    Jul 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345920
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: barometric alarm for shotfirers at Groesfaen NCB Commentary - At Groesfaen colliery, overlooking the Rhymney valley, shot firer Tom Jones prepares to go on shift. A quick check on how the...

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  5. EASINGTON

    Date released
    Jul 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 4th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345707
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: disaster at Easington colliery NCB Commentary - Early on the morning of May 29th, as the shifts were changing over at Easington Colliery, there was a sudden explosion in the Duckbill district...

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  6. 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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  7. AIRBREAKER

    Date released
    Apr 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345999
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: large coal produced by means of a No.8 nail and air under high compression. NCB Commentary - At Rossington Colliery, Yorkshire, a new installation is blasting down large coal. Here’s a load...

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