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  1. SPACE SAVER

    Date released
    Jan 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 18th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346273
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: hydraulic motors underground save space. NCB Commentary - With increased mechanisation underground, it’s hard to keep a coal-face tidy - there’s so much essential equipment in use. Men...

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  2. National Story - Pillars of Strength

    Date released
    Dec 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346312
    Story no
    2 / 4

    NoS synopsis: powered supports underground give new safety NCB Commentary - These are pillars of strenth indeed. They are called "powered supports", and thousands of them help keep up the roof in the...

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  3. PLOUGHING FAST

    Date released
    Sep 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345844
    Story no
    4 / 4

    Film User Summary - new coal-plough winning 800 tons a shift NCB Commentary - Again from South Wales at Lady Windsor Colliery comes news of another rapid coal-getting machine to speed output. Ripping into...

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  4. CUT & CARRY

    Date released
    Aug 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345839
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: cutting and lifting coal with scraper boxes at Plean Colliery, Scotland NCB Commentary - To keep pace with the rising demand, more and more machines are needed in British mines that will load...

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  5. PULSED INFUSION

    Date released
    Apr 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345954
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: new technique of shot-firing using pulsed infusion NCB Commentary - Vane Tempest Colliery in County Durham is one of the locations where a new technique in shot-firing is being used. Here, at...

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  6. FLIGHT LOADING

    Date released
    Mar 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345907
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: flights attached to an ordinary coal-cutter turn it into a power-loader (shot at Polkemmet Colliery) NCB Commentary - In 80% of British Coalfaces cutting machines bring down the coal, to be...

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  7. THE WAFFLER

    Date released
    Jul 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345794
    Story no
    2 / 3

    NoS Summary - new coal-cutters NCB Commentary - Here at Brockhill Colliery in Notthinghamshire a new system of mechanised mining and power loading is working, and they don’t have to use any explosives....

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  8. Chairs to Bend

    Date released
    Jul 1938
    Series name
    Ace Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    79
    NoS ID
    349200
    Story no
    2 / 4

    NoS synopsis: Margaret Chester’s novel use of buckram to make face-masks to form mannequin heads, with some of the latest hat fashions, from the Tinling House, displayed upon them.

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  9. CUT AND THRUST

    Date released
    Apr 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345783
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a new combined cutter-loader at North Gawber Colliery. NCB Commentary - North Cawber in Yorkshire is a quiet steady pit with an output of 2,000 tons a day. They don’t often hit the headlines....

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  10. AIRBREAKER

    Date released
    Apr 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345999
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: large coal produced by means of a No.8 nail and air under high compression. NCB Commentary - At Rossington Colliery, Yorkshire, a new installation is blasting down large coal. Here’s a load...

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