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  1. 150 mph Train On Existing Tracks

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    14
    NoS ID
    350801
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: For fast intercity services British Rail engineers are developing a super train which will maintain speeds of 150 mph. Using unique suspension and banking mechanisms, the new train is a major...

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  2. Trading Nations (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17 min., 1997 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

    In three parts: 1) reasons for international trade: basic commodities (gypsum), agricultural produce (coffee, wool), manufactures (cars, jumbo jets); 2) invisible trade, tourism (jet boating), transport...

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  3. Floating Tunnel

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    74
    NoS ID
    329452
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: An imaginative prize-winning design project for a road-rail link across the Straits of Messina between Italy and Sicily. Concrete tubes buoyant enough not to sink completely span the straits...

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  4. The Future of the Car

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    104
    NoS ID
    325458
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: The car, has become an essential component of the Twentieth Century way of life, but it’s also an avid consumer of the Earth’s resources. The world’s supply of oil already running low;...

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  5. Advanced Passenger Train

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    899
    NoS ID
    329140
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: The Advanced Passenger Train is a totally new concept in transportation. It can travel at 250 kilometres an hour round all the curves and bends of a conventional rail network. The key to...

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  6. Tower of Steel

    Date released
    1952
    Series name
    Oil Review
    Issue no
    16
    NoS ID
    349524
    Story no
    1 / 1

    Film User Summary - A steel tower over 90 ft. long and weighing 130 tons was recently moved by road, rail and ship from the maker’s factory in Scotland to Llandarcy Refinery in Wales. We follow this vast...

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  7. The Future of the Car

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    104
    NoS ID
    329509
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: The car, has become an essential component of the Twentieth Century way of life, but it’s also an avid consumer of the Earth’s resources. The world’s supply of oil already running low;...

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  8. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    1955
    Series name
    Panorama
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    349620
    Story no
    3 / 3

    Film User synopsis: maintaining road and rail vehicles used for transporting chemicals in bulk

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  9. Turn Of The Wheel

    Date released
    1964
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    265
    NoS ID
    350282
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: Britain’s road and rail services are being modernised and this film shows what happens to the old locomotives and carriages, trams and buses.

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  10. Metropolis 1 (1995 Video)

    Director
    Frank Prendergast
    Producer
    Bryn Higgins; Frank Prendergast; Antony Woodward
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 30 min., 1997 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1997 sale: £180.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    Series tracing the historical and technological evolution of six typical components of a modern city. Uses graphics, video effects and dramatic re-creation to revealt he hidden mechanisms that enable the...

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