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  1. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    Nov 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    334731
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI Summary - Joe Baksi, American boxer, visits British miners. COI Commentary - Joe Baksi - the American heavy-weight boxer - recently made a tour of coal mines in the Doncaster area. Being a miner himself...

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  2. Diesel Locos

    Date released
    Feb 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    334738
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: The Hunslet locomotive used underground. COI Commentary - Here, in the making, is one of the answers to our coal problem. Our worst bottleneck is haulage - we need ten men to do the work that...

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  3. Swadlincote

    Date released
    Nov 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    334730
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI Summary - Soil subsidence caused by mining operations. COI Commentary - Amidst the beautiful scenery of South Derbyshire lies the town of Swadlincote ... but Swadlincote itself is not so beautiful! For...

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  4. Hound Trails

    Date released
    Feb 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    334740
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Hound trails in Cumberland. COI Commentary - Six to four the field! Six to four the field! It’s hard work for Charlie Parkinson’s lungs, but he’s not afraid of that - he used to be a...

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  5. Miners visiting Ruhr

    Date released
    Feb 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    334739
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: A tour of the Ruhr by British mining engineers. COI Commentary - In July, I was one of thirty miners chosen by Colliery Consultative Committees to go to the Ruhr and see for ourselves what the...

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  6. The problem of smoke elimination

    Date released
    Jan 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    334736
    Story no
    1 / 2

    NoS Summary - The work of the Fuel Research Station in trying to eliminate smoke from ships’ furnaces is profiled. A machine has been made that can do it. This principle is now being applied on land in...

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  7. The Miners’ Gala at Durham, 1947

    Date released
    Jan 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    334737
    Story no
    2 / 2

    NoS synopsis: The miners of Durham come together for their demonstration and gala day. Shots of the crowds and the banners and bands. This was the first rally under nationalization, so it also included...

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  8. NUM Conference

    Date released
    Nov 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    334729
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI Summary - The 1947 N.U.M. conference at Rothesay. COI Commentary - Commentary: This year’s National Union of Mine Workers Annual Conference was at Rothesay on the Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde....

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