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  1. Coal Drive!

    Date released
    5 May 1932
    Series name
    Pathe Sound Pictorial
    Issue no
    735
    NoS ID
    114206
    Story no
    3 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    The Swedish academy for engineering science has conducted experiments of using charcoal-gas as motive power for motor trucks and tractors.

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  2. COKING COAL

    Date released
    Oct 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345760
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Nantgarw coke oven plant NCB Commentary - At Nantgarw in South Wales is one of the world’s most up-to-date coke oven and by-product plants. Here’s how it works. There are 48 coke ovens....

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  3. New Generations and Piping Hot (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Philip Ashby
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    1: An examination of the electricity industry: uses aerial photography and 3-D computer modelling to explain the operation of two major generations of power station: the 1960s’ coal-burning station at...

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  4. Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Fuel Crisis

    Date released
    20 Feb 1947
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    924A
    NoS ID
    014316
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fuel Crisis. DESCRIPTION: COAL ON THE MOVE - Miners have worked very hard to build up stocks and coal is on the move again. In some places people queued for hours in freezing conditions...

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  5. OPENING CEREMONY

    Date released
    Sep 1961
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346143
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh come to Fife to open the Lurgi gas plant at Westfield.

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  6. SANDS OF DEE

    Date released
    Mar 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345865
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: point of Ayr reconstruction NCB Commentary - Point of Ayr Colliery, most northerly in Wales, comes into the headlines as its million pound reconstruction scheme nears completion. From this...

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  7. $1,000,000 Up in Smoke

    Date released
    21 Feb 1938
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    729
    NoS ID
    035767
    Story no
    1 / 7
    Extras
    1 shot list

    America’s most spectacular fire in recent years! Water-front blaze of coal and gas plant defies fire-fighters for hours.

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  8. AVENUE

    Date released
    Sep 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345928
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the coke and by-product plant near Chesterfield. Preview of the Coal Board’s largest Coking and By-Products Plant, outside Chesterfield NCB Commentary - Three miles out of Chesterfield the...

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  9. Flying Start

    Date released
    May 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345656
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Rover gas turbine car, Birmingham

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  10. Power Boat

    Date released
    Feb 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 4th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345689
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI Summary - the Rover gas turbine launch. BFI synopsis: The launch - "Torquil" - put through its paces on the River Thames, also shows the engine being checked.

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