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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...
BFI synopsis: Leatherhead Electricity Research Station power lines, and high voltage experiments by the B.E.A. NCB Commentary - This is a common enough happening - and this. What’s being done about it?...
BFI synopsis: The Careers Exhibition held at the Science Museum, London. NCB Commentary - London’s Science Museum is, for 8 weeks this winter, the home of the Engineer’s Day Exhibition. Sponsored by...
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...
BFI synopsis: an old steam engine at work at Warden Law colliery. NCB Commentary - Still in the county of Durham, across the high moorland country inland from Sunderland’s busy port, 62-year-old Alfred...
NoS synopsis: Analysis of dust, air and coal samples from pits NCB Commentary - Dust in the air is only one of the hazards which miners must meet. In every Coal Board are regular checks are made on dust...
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 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: point of Ayr reconstruction NCB Commentary - Point of Ayr Colliery, most northerly in Wales, comes into the headlines as its million pound reconstruction scheme nears completion. From this...
BFI synopsis: Bevercotes, shaft sinking with freezing and successful unorthodox methods NCB Commentary - A year and a half ago, Bevercotes didn’t mean a thing, except to a few planning engineers. Today, on...
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