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  1. RIPPING INVENTION

    Date released
    Sep 1961
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346142
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the design and production by N.C.B. personnel of a machine for ripping stone down to form the roadways at the coal-face. Filmed at Coppice Colliery

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  2. Ripping

    Date released
    Apr 1968
    Series name
    Mining Review 21st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346408
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: New techniques and new machines make it possible for mine roadways to keep up with the fast advance of the coal-face. NCB Commentary - Roadways in mines have to be driven forward all the time...

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  3. 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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  4. PLOUGHING FAST

    Date released
    Sep 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345844
    Story no
    4 / 4

    Film User Summary - new coal-plough winning 800 tons a shift NCB Commentary - Again from South Wales at Lady Windsor Colliery comes news of another rapid coal-getting machine to speed output. Ripping into...

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  5. STOW IT

    Date released
    Jun 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    345790
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the work of the stowers at Gelsding Colliery, Nottingham. They replace the coal taken out with waste-packing and tidy up the coal face. NCB Commentary - At Gedling Colliery, Nottingham, they...

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  6. 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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  7. Nottinghamshire - SISTER

    Date released
    Dec 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346355
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: A day in the life of Cotgrave Colliery’s pit nurse. NCB Commentary - Just 2 miles from Nottingham City Centre you can sail on the River Trent. A bracing way to unwind after a day at the...

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