Learning on ScreenMaterials For Safety: Non Slip Discs
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: New materials are developed for strength, for lightness, for cheapness or to improve industrial processes. But some materials, as we discover this week, are developed purely to increase safety. Disc brakes on motorcycles are superbly safe - when they’re dry. In the wet, they’re unpredictable. Now, borrowing from the aviation industry, brake pads are being made of sintered metal rather than fibre. The metal granules in the pads cut through any film of water on the brake disc, making motorcycle braking safe in the wet or the dry.
- Keywords
- Motorcycling; Science and technology; Safety devices; Motor vehicles; Engineering; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/239
- Credits:
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- Cutter
- Allen Bowry
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Ian Lake
- Cutter
- Laurence Williamson
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- Fax
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- 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).
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