Coping With Complexity: Tractor Tank

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

151

Length of issue (in feet)

503

Stories in this 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
Cutter: Peter Greenaway
Editor: Peter Greenaway

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