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  1. The Other Man’s Job: Springs for Victory

    Date released
    11 Sep 1944
    Series name
    Warwork News
    Issue no
    S15/56; Paramount Issue No.: 1412
    NoS ID
    156729
    Story no
    1 / 2

    War production of every kind of spring, large and small: valve springs for internal combustion engines, sprung saddles for motor cycle despatch riders, springs for the release mechanism of parachutes, recoil...

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  2. Motor Cycling Match at Weybridge

    Date released
    24 Feb 1930
    Series name
    British Movietone Gazette
    Issue no
    4A
    NoS ID
    000099
    Story no
    4 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Motor Cycling Match at Weybridge. DESCRIPTION: Weybridge and Hanworth sides meet in Internal Combustion contest. SHOTLIST: Shots of kick off of teams playing football on motor-cycles....

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  3. Fire at Sea

    Date released
    5 May 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/36
    NoS ID
    098750
    Story no
    3 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Passenger ship "Orungal" runs ashore off Victoria, Australia, and while awaiting high tides to float her off, fire breaks out on board and quickly spreads from stem to stern. With her cargo of crude oil this...

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  4. ON SHIFT

    Date released
    Dec 1961
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346154
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: modern methods of coal handling demonstrated at Salford during the Combustion Engineering Association’s Exhibition

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  5. Old Bakers’ Carts

    Date released
    25 Feb 1957
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    113
    NoS ID
    120347
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Have you ever wondered what happens to the old horse-drawn vehicles which the internal combustion engine has forced off the road? The old bakers’ carts, for example. Most of them end in the...

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  6. Moss Still Winning

    Date released
    24 Apr 1958
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1507A
    NoS ID
    022346
    Story no
    5 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Motor Racing at Aintree. DESCRIPTION: Horsepower at Aintree - the internal combustion type. One of the entries, Stirling Moss, in his Cooper Climax. He’s one of the mixed field in the...

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  7. Electric Cars

    Date released
    16 Apr 1978
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2550
    NoS ID
    031133
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Electric Car. DESCRIPTION: The electric car, if it can be developed sufficiently, could cure two of the environmental problems caused by the combustion engine, noise and fumes....

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  8. Flash Point

    Date released
    May 1972
    Series name
    Mining Review 25th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346544
    Story no
    1 / 2

    BFI synopsis: CU coal falling onto a conveyor belt. CU mines operating power-loading machines. CU flash as methane gas (firedamp) ignites explosion and fire. Miners spraying water onto fire; shots of fire....

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  9. News in Colour: Age of Steam

    Date released
    5 Sep 1968
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2048A
    NoS ID
    027531
    Story no
    1 / 2

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Age of Steam News in Colour:-. DESCRIPTION: This summer sees the end of steam trains on British Rail. But the Steam Age is still preserved, notably in the many Traction Engine Rallies...

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  10. 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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