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  1. ROLF

    Date released
    Aug 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    346215
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: The NCB’s Remotely Operated Longwall Face is a revolutionary breakthrough in mining. This issue looks at the installation of the machine at Newstead Colliery, Nottinghamshire, and includes...

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  2. 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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  3. DOSCO

    Date released
    Dec 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345853
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI Summary - Canadian coal cutter at Rawdon colliery NCB Commentary - Every year Coal Board experts travel trousands of miles to wherever coal is mined in the search for new mining techiniques and machinery...

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  4. East Midlands - COAL COUNTIES

    Date released
    Apr 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346369
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: A survey of Britain’s most highly mechanised coalfield. NCB Commentary - The East Midlands is the home of Britain’s most modern mine. But some say that it’s also the oldest coal-field...

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  5. MORE POWER TO HIS ELBOW

    Date released
    Aug 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345797
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Power loading at the coal face and the progress of mechanisation in the pits, longwall cutters, Meco-Moore machines, the German plough, conveyors and better pit props. NCB Commentary - However...

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  6. Bestwood Training Centre

    Date released
    Oct 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    334725
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Bestwood Training Centre in Nottinghamshire COI Commentary - These lades are going to be miners, but how are they going to learn the job? Should they be sent straight down the pit, where...

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  7. Miners visiting Ruhr

    Date released
    Feb 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    334739
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: A tour of the Ruhr by British mining engineers. COI Commentary - In July, I was one of thirty miners chosen by Colliery Consultative Committees to go to the Ruhr and see for ourselves what the...

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  8. PERSONAL CALL: 3. WE VISIT THRISLINGTON

    Date released
    Mar 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345738
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: a German coal plough working in 2’3" seams, with John Slater. NCB Commentary - Thrislington Colliery, in County Durham, is the scene of another new development in continuous mining - a...

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  9. LOTHIANS

    Date released
    May 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345914
    Story no
    2 / 3

    NoS synopsis: a profile of Scottish Division’s Area 2, showing new methods of cutting and loading now being introduced NCB Commentary - The Lothians are is one of the expanding coalfields of Britain....

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