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  1. Sorting It All Out

    Date released
    21 Dec 1964
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1855
    NoS ID
    025798
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sorting It All Out. DESCRIPTION: The sorting system at Mount Pleasant in London seems rather antiquated compared with the electronic sorting system in Nuremberg, which deals with...

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  2. The Motor Show

    Date released
    20 Oct 1960
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1637A
    NoS ID
    023820
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Motor Show. DESCRIPTION: Highlights from the 45th Motor Show, at Earls Court, include a gleaming Humber with double headlights. The Lea-Francis Leaf-Lynx is about the only new type...

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  3. A Sweet Fragment from the "Dessert" Island

    Date released
    25 Sep 1930
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    486
    NoS ID
    332536
    Story no
    2 / 6

    NoS synopsis: "From far-off Tasmania, Australia, where Adam joins in the sweetest job of all - jam making." L/S of men at work pouring large container of jam into a vat. "Eve has the job of tending the big...

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  4. Automations

    Date released
    Aug 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    346055
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A new type of conveyor belt using wire ropes as an alternative to rollers going through its paces. NCB Commentary - In several collieries now they’re using an improved method of running...

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  5. Sorting at Speed

    Date released
    31 Oct 1963
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1795A
    NoS ID
    025306
    Story no
    2 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sorting at Speed. DESCRIPTION: Preston in Lancashire, handling some six million parcels a year, is one of the most important mail centres in Britain. At the new sorting office alongside...

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  6. ADVANCE

    Date released
    Sep 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346016
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: new developments in self-advancing roof supports including the Dawtry Roofmaster. NCB Commentary - Five years ago only a few million tons of coal a year were produced by machines which both...

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  7. Fenner’s Apprentice At GPO

    Date released
    Jun 1972
    Series name
    Parade
    Issue no
    103
    NoS ID
    327371
    Story no
    2 / 5

    COI synopsis: Mechanical engineering apprentice, Lenwood Smith, from Jamaica observes the conveyor belt system used at Britain’s Post Office HQ.

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  8. PROP SHOP

    Date released
    Sep 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345971
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: processes in the production of hydraulic pit props NCB Commentary - Over the past ten years hydraulic props have been introduced into British mines in greater and greater numbers until, today,...

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  9. 999

    Date released
    3 Jan 1957
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1439A
    NoS ID
    021404
    Story no
    4 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Dial 999. DESCRIPTION: At the nerve centre of the Metropolitan Police a new time system has been started. It halves the time taken to pass an emergency call to a patrol car. In a matter...

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  10. TREPANNER

    Date released
    Feb 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345946
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Britain’s newest power loading machine for longwall faces in operation in Yorkshire NCB Commentary - Two months ago in Mining Review at Ormonde Colliery in Derbyshire we saw noted industrial...

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