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  1. African Horizon

    Date released
    1956
    Series name
    Babcock Review
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    352818
    Story no
    3 / 4

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: This opens with the loading aboard ship on Clydeside of a Renfrew-built drum for one of the 580,000 lb./hr. Babcock boilers being installed in Taaibos power station, largest in...

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  2. Combustion and the Chain Grate Stoker (1948 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Theoretical combustion; reduction of combustion losses; heat transfer surfaces in boilers; mechanised stoking for water-tube boilers; balanced draught control; forced draught removal of clinker; reasons for...

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  3. SCOOP

    Date released
    May 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345745
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: George Benson in a Lyric Revue variety sketch (by H.F. Ellis) - a comedian’s advice on domestic boilers. NCB Commentary - Down South, we take our domestic fuel economy seriously! Here’s a...

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  4. The Drums of Donington

    Date released
    1955
    Series name
    Babcock Review
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    352815
    Story no
    3 / 3

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: In another part of England the Castle Donington power station, with its six Babcock boilers, to steam six 100 MW generators, was also under construction; and the film takes us...

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  5. Steam for Steel

    Date released
    1957
    Series name
    Babcock Review
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    352823
    Story no
    4 / 4

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: This item shows something of the dramatic process of steel making at the new Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles Ltd., in Scotland. It indicates that much of the steel plate used by...

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  6. 72 Suns, The (1978 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The COSS collector is a solar energy collector with segmented mirrors. The 72-mirror prototype has been successfully used in experiments at the Centre for Nuclear Energy in Caradache. In sunny regions such...

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  7. FRED’S PITCH

    Date released
    Oct 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346187
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the function of coal in the manufacture of carpets at a factory at Brighouse, Yorkshire. NCB Commentary - Near this spot, Robin Hood died. His bows were made from a tree in nearby Hartshead...

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  8. STEAM UP!

    Date released
    Oct 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346221
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: by replacing three old-fashioned boiler houses with a new single modern one, Sheffield City General Hospital raises more heat with less coal NCB Commentary - In Sheffield City General Hospital...

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  9. WASTE NOT

    Date released
    May 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345956
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: a fuel-saving boiler house where the boiler has been adapted to burn slurry at Llay main colliery. NCB Commentary - Llay Main Colliery, near Wrexham, is the site of a new coal-saving...

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  10. Slurry for Steam

    Date released
    1954
    Series name
    Babcock Review
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    352811
    Story no
    2 / 3

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: Commencing with a sequence that describes the nature of "slurry" with one-time waste product of the colliery washeries, this item shows how new mechanical handling developments...

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