Mechanical Onion Peeler

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

Date Released

1972

Filmed

Jan 1972

Length of issue (in feet)

471

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: To get an onion into a pickle you had to get under its skin, a process which cried out for a machine. Twelve years of work produced a whirlwind of knives, a sharp blast of air, and thousands of shiny tubers, peeled to perfection.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Inventions and discoveries; Design

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 49 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/96

Credits:

Producer: Anthony Thomson
Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Camera: Ian Nowell
Director: John Lyndon

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