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  1. Career with a Future

    Date released
    1955
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    352790
    Story no
    4 / 4

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: A boy about to leave school, decides to go into engineering, through the apprentice training scheme offered by Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd. at their Renfrew Works. The story tells how...

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  2. Slurry for Steam

    Date released
    1955
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    352789
    Story no
    3 / 4

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

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  3. Fighting Fit

    Date released
    1957
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    352801
    Story no
    4 / 4

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: The boxing section of the B. & W. Club at Renfrew has won a high place amongst the Scottish amatuers and its tournaments bring plenty of thrills and an enthusiastic audience. In...

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  4. "How do you doo" from Dumbarton

    Date released
    1955
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    352780
    Story no
    2 / 2

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: Many of the men in the Dumbarton works of Babcock & Wilcox breed and race pigeons, or "doos" as they are called locally. The film shows something of this fascinating pastime and...

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  5. Call me Madam

    Date released
    1957
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    352800
    Story no
    3 / 4

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: It is not generally realized what a useful part women play in such an industry as heavy engineering. The "Home and Away" camera carries out a little investigation of the distaff...

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  6. Building for the Future

    Date released
    1957
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    352799
    Story no
    2 / 4

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: The Works of Edwin Danks & Co. (Oldbury) Ltd., subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd. have been greatly modernized and extended in the past few years and early in 1957 the fine new...

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  7. Glancing Back to 1954

    Date released
    1955
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    352777
    Story no
    2 / 3

    NoS Summary - A review of the new vessels made by Babcock and Wilcox, including SS Clan Robertson and the Can Macleod cargo vessel. Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: A brief review, including the trials on the...

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  8. African Horizon

    Date released
    1957
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    352798
    Story no
    1 / 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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  9. Racing at Ayr

    Date released
    1955
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    352788
    Story no
    2 / 4

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: Each year the B. & W. Club at Renfrew organizes an outing by the sea for members and their children. It is very much a children’s occasion and the day is filled with races and...

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  10. Pretty and Plane

    Date released
    1957
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    352826
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: A look at the hobbies of 2 employees of Babcock & Wilcox. Willie Shannon, draughtsman for Babcock & Wilcox shows a girl how to embroider, and is also seen creating needlework designs, tracing...

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