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Future for the Flying Scotsman (1996)

Genre

Interview; News report

Nick Wood looks at the future of Britain’s best loved locomotive, the Flying Scotsman, which has been waiting at the old Southall railway depot for repairs, where he tries to catch a glimpse of it. Speaks...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Car in river; 2 interviews (1982)

Police now believe the car which plunged into the ice-covered River Thames near Reading Bridge had pushed in empty. But when the emergency services arrived at the scene minutes after the car sank beneath the...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Inventions that changed the world (1985)

A series aimed at the under-16s which takes a lighthearted look at the history of invention. Amongst the subject covered are the use of metals and discovery of bronze, the inventions of modern printing, the...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

International Model Railway Exhibition, Thomas the Tank Engine (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report

Mark Percy reports on Thomas the Tank Engine creator, the Reverend W. Awdry at the International Model Railway Exhibition. He interviews the writer about the success of the stories, originally created for...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

New Rolls Royce engine (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Humphrey Wood, Rolls Royce, on new engine to generate electricity as a sideline to supplying engines for Concorde. Interviewer not identified. Sound level low.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Decline of Rolls Royce Aero (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with businessman Freddie Laker, on the possible demise of the Rolls Royce RB211 engine. He says if the Americans stop buying it, the Rolls Royce Aero engine will go bust and that the British...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

John Feasey on the Kegworth air disaster (1989)

Genre

Interview

The Kegworth air disaster. John Feasey of the British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA) on reports that a second engine may have failed on the emergency runway approach, on the extreme odds against such a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

New O series engine at British Leyland (1978)

Genre

Interview

Ray Horrocks on the new O series engine which will now go with the streamlined improved shape of Princess car already in production. Quality and reliability that had previously been criticised will be...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Possible Boeing engine concern prior to Kegworth crash (1989)

Genre

Interview

Air passenger Dorothy Skeoch on the concern shown by airport officials over the engine of the British Midland Boeing 737 aircraft in which she had been travelling earlier in the week, and the possibility...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kegworth air disaster - Possible causes (1989)

Genre

News report; Press conference; Speech

Kegworth air disaster. Transport Secretary Paul Channon confirms that the fire in one aircraft engine had apparently been dealt with but that there had been further problems during the emergency landing of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio