On-The-Land Ploughing

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

97

Date Released

1972

Filmed

Jan 1972

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Electric Carpet Tape
2. 2Sterile Operating Area
3. 3On-The-Land Ploughing
4. 4Plastic Gulper

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Down at the bottom of the furrow there’s a problem... packed-down soil, and a danger of flooding. The cause, the weight of the tractor wheel in the furrow when ploughing. Automatic steering means the tractor driver can keep his machine on the straight-and-narrow... and, out of the furrow; all "hands-off".

Researcher Comments

NB: The same story ran in ‘Tomorrow Today No. 100’

Keywords

Vehicles; Agriculture; Science and technology; Engineering

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1458/97

Credits:

Producer

Anthony Thomson

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Camera

Ian Nowell

Director

John Lyndon

Camera

Ray Ashton

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Film Archive

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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