Interfaces: Tender Tractor

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

154

Date Released

1975

Length of issue (in feet)

510

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Science is often all about meeting points: the way things react at the interfaces where they come together. This issue looks at a few of the problems that arise at those interfaces - and the solutions that science can offer. A study of the meeting point between a tractor driver and his machine - his seat - isn’t as funny as it sounds: for the driver the vibrations can mean spinal deformity. Now a new seat eliminates the particular vibrations which do all the damage.

Keywords

Vehicles; Agriculture; Science and technology; Safety devices; Engineering; Design

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 51 [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 54 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/154

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Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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