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  1. 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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  2. Steam for Paper

    Date released
    1958
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    14
    NoS ID
    352831
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Looks at the part the company’s boilers play in the process of making paper. The film opens in the Bowater Paper Mills, Kent. Wood is unloaded from a cargo liner in a Medway dock, and there...

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  3. The Drums of Donington

    Date released
    1955
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    352775
    Story no
    4 / 4

    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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  4. The Cyclone

    Date released
    1956
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    352804
    Story no
    3 / 4

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: Despite rapid developments in the field of atomic energy, coal will be, for many years to come, a maro source of power. The Babcock Cyclone furnace, most modern method of...

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  5. Right in the Picture

    Date released
    1957
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    352825
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Looks at the use of various photographic equipment by the company, and also how one of their boilers is used by Kodak. There are scenes inside a photographer’s studio, and also the accounts...

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  6. The Other Man’s Job: Making Copper and Brass Tubes

    Date released
    3 Jan 1944
    Series name
    Warwork News
    Issue no
    S15/40
    NoS ID
    156689
    Story no
    1 / 4

    At a Yorkshire works - refining copper, moulding it into "billets" which are treated in a pre-heated furnace, lengthened into tubes and cut to the required lengths. Process of manufacture seen in detail....

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  7. Price of the Great Frost

    Date released
    21 Feb 1929
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1583; Super Issue No.: 29/15
    NoS ID
    087455
    Story no
    5 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Frozen pipes - burst boilers - cause great damage, destruction - many injuries and several deaths.

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  8. "Invincible" Locomotive

    Date released
    12 Mar 1967
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    67/21
    NoS ID
    112492
    Story no
    5 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    'Invincible’ a steam locomotive which has pulled the coal train at the Royal Aircraft establishment to the boiler rooms for many years is after all, vincible. It is to be replaced by oil tankers now the...

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  9. Source of Power

    Date released
    Apr 1953
    Series name
    Ingot Pictorial
    Issue no
    15
    NoS ID
    349416
    Story no
    6 / 7

    NFA synopsis: Looking at 2 additional high pressure boilers, and their various aspects, added as part of the Ebbw Vale development plan, February 1953. Also looks at pulverizers for coal fuel.

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  10. Movietone’s War Time News Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Australia Launches Boom Defence Ship

    Date released
    1 Feb 1940
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    556A
    NoS ID
    010587
    Story no
    5 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: HMS "Koala" Launched. DESCRIPTION: A boom defence ship, designed to lay anti-submarine nets, was launched at Cockatoo Docks, Sydney. SHOTLIST: The new Boom ship HMS "Koala" is launched...

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