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Hydraulics Research Station

Date released

22 Mar 1964

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

483

NoS ID

121498

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: ... don’t toy around with the idea that research has dampened schoolboy enthusiasm. At the Hydraulics Research Station, they build scale models of ships and harbours and can even simulate...

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Anatomy of a Fire (1982)

Director

David Hayward

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 20 minutes), £37.60

A tribunal of enquiry asked the Fire Research Station to investigate a fire at the Stardust Club in Dublin in 1981 in which 48 young people died. The video shows the many FRS tests culminating in a...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.11: Programme 11 of a weekly news and sports review (1986)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 11 Programme reviewing events since independent local radio station Ocean Sound, opened, broadcast on 31 December 1986. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK 1- A look back to the year...

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Fire at Valley Parade, Bradford, The (1987)

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 32 minutes), £44.06

Describes and analyses the devastating fire at Bradford City Football Ground on 11 May 1985 in the aftermath of the investigation by the Fire Research Station.

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Fire in Store (1980)

Director

David Hayward

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 15 minutes), £37.60

Following a major fire in the Manchester Woolworth’s store in 1979, the Fire Research Station carried out various experiments with sprinkler systems to try to find an efficient way of controlling furniture...

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Cardington: The Biggest Fire Space in the World (1989)

Director

David Hayward

Producer

Sally Lessiter

Subject

Engineering; Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 14 minutes), £37.60

Shows the space, size and 15 specialist rigs within the Fire Research Station’s Cardington Laboratory, a former air ship hanger which is used for full-scale fire and explosion testing. There are examples...

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Jet Foam Fire Fighter

Date released

9 Jul 1962

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1727

NoS ID

024700

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Foam Fire Fighters. DESCRIPTION: An experiment was carried out at the Fire Research Station, designed to show how scientific research is coming to the aid of fire-fighters. This is a...

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Fire Research

Date released

31 Aug 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2152

NoS ID

028469

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fire Research. DESCRIPTION: Advanced methods of protecting inflammable goods stored in warehouses demonstrated at the Ministry of Technology’s Fire Research Station. SHOTLIST: GV...

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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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HOTHOUSE

Date released

May 1955

Series name

Mining Review 8th Year

Issue no

9

NoS ID

345873

Story no

3 / 3

BFI synopsis: research by University and Coal Board scientists on what rescue-worders can physically endure. NCB Commentary - Always on call in Britain’s coalfields are the men of the Mines Rescue...

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