Making Things Last: Gunning For Bumps

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

179

Date Released

1976

Length of issue (in feet)

520

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Making Things Last: Soft Environment
2. 2Making Things Last: Gunning For Bumps
3. 3Making Things Last: Heartfelt Beating
4. 4Making Things Last: Tireless Tyres

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: New ways of preserving life, limb - and materials. A gun that throws a pencil beam of light to illuminate microscopic crevices on the surface of steel pipes. It’s the state of these minute peaks and troughs that crucially determines how long paint will cling to preserve the pipes from rust and corrosion.

Keywords

Science and technology; Pollution; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/179

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Peter Day

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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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).

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