Making Things Last: Tireless Tyres
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: New ways of preserving life, limb - and materials. A tyre that should last longer than the car. In a novel approach to tyre production, the rubber is put into compression, instead of tension. So the final tyre is harder and more resistant to cutting and wear.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Motor vehicles; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/179
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Peter Day
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
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