Early Warning Alarms: Bleeding Bolts
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Prevention is better than cure... a simple early warning system can mean that trouble - or even disaster - can be averted. Throughout industry metal fatigue can cause sudden, unexpected failure of vital components. In the world of aviation it can spell disaster. But fill essential parts, like bolts, with a red dye - and from the moment a crack develops they’ll begin to bleed - warning of imminent failure.
- Researcher Comments
- Story also appears in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 305’
- Keywords
- Aircraft; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Safety devices; Engineering
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/236
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Laurence Williamson
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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