Coping With Complexity: Tractor Tank
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 5
- Summary
- COI synopsis: This issue looks at a few new ways of managing the increasingly complex problems of modern life. Computer simulations, for instance, show how to cope with the complexity of planning a modern airport and designing a motorway: but coping with complexity doesn’t always involve computers... Coping with the complexities of unusual terrain led to the design by the British Army of a new and ingenious bulldozer. Now it’s proving its worth as a civilian emergency vehicle, able to get through even if it has to swim, excavate and lay its own road, winch itself up a slope or fire off a rescue rocket.
- Keywords
- Vehicles; Science and technology; Emergency services; Design
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
COI Microfilm Roll 51 [BFI National Archive]
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/151
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Editor
- Peter Greenaway
- Cutter
- Peter Greenaway
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk - Web
- http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
- Phone
- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
- Series held
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
Record Stats
This record has been viewed 256 times.