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  1. A Matter of Scale

    Date released
    1954
    Series name
    Babcock Review
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    352810
    Story no
    1 / 3

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: Model-making can be much more than a hobby, models both simple and complex being widely used in industry for planning, for training and for demonstration. We pay a visit to the...

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  2. BRETBY MAGIC

    Date released
    Mar 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346202
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: 20 year-old Alan Bottril, an NCB welder and plater is also a magician. NCB Commentary - At the Coal Board’s Area Workshops at Swadlincote, near Burton-on-Trent, 20-year old Alan Bottrill is...

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  3. CUT AND THRUST

    Date released
    Apr 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345783
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a new combined cutter-loader at North Gawber Colliery. NCB Commentary - North Cawber in Yorkshire is a quiet steady pit with an output of 2,000 tons a day. They don’t often hit the headlines....

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  4. RECORD PIT

    Date released
    Dec 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346070
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: British shaft-sinking records are shattered at Lancashire’s Parkside Colliery. NCB Commentary - Early this year, shaft sinking was completed at Parkside Colliery, the North Western...

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  5. 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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  6. ROOF BOLTING

    Date released
    Nov 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345980
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: how this modern technique helps safety underground in mines. NCB Commentary - Above ground the earth looks solid enough, but miners know better. Underground the strata of different rocks are...

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